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2018: Ongoing Yellow vests movement (French: Gilets jaunes protests) over dissatisfaction with wealth disparity and ongoing increases to fuel taxes. 2022: 2022 Corsica unrest by Corsican nationalists in response to prison attack on Yvan Colonna; 2022: 2022 Paris shooting, protests after the killing of three Kurds in Paris.
The yellow vest was an accessible symbol for the protests, as all French drivers have been required to have one in their vehicles since 2008. General discontentment. Already low in early 2018 (47% approval in January 2018), French President Emmanuel Macron's approval rating had dipped below 25% at the beginning of the movement.
- 17 November 2018 – present, (4 years, 10 months, 1 week and 5 days), First phase: 17 November 2018 – 14 March 2020, (1 year, 3 months and 26 days), Second phase: 12 September 2020 – present, (3 years, 2 weeks and 3 days)
- France, Other countries:, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
- 4,439 (police and civilians)
- Ongoing
Dec 8, 2018 · Mass protests. Saturday, November 17, is the first day of road blockades across France with nearly 290,000 demonstrators wearing the fluorescent yellow vests motorists are required to carry in ...
Dec 3, 2018 · Dec. 3, 2018. PARIS — The broken glass and empty tear gas canisters have been swept away and the graffiti scrubbed off the major monuments, among them the Arc de Triomphe, after a weekend of ...
Apr 27, 2020 · On November 17, 2018, 290,000 demonstrators from around France began what would be the first of many protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax hike. Known as the “Yellow Vests,” these demonstrators took the world’s center stage and joined climate change debates for a brief period in late 2018 and early 2019.
Dec 3, 2018 · Most yellow vests at blockades around France are peaceful protesters. Violent protests erupted over the weekend in Paris, where rioters defaced the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown ...
Dec 4, 2018 · Nearly 300,000 protested in the streets across the country that day. French paramedics, students join ‘yellow vest’ protests (2:04) Less than half that number, about 106,000, took to the ...
