Originally published at: France: 153 High School Students Arrested for Protesting Macron | Infostormer.com
This is definitely not going to help Emmanuel Macron. A group of high school students were arrested for rising up against the corrupt French government.
It looks like a decent amount of the students arrested were of the colored variety, but it doesn't matter as it is not at all a good look for Macron. Arresting high school students like this is beyond the pale and looks like something you would see in a science fiction movie like The Hunger Games.Children as young as 12 were among 153 pupils arrested at a high school near Paris after new protests in support of the “Yellow Vests” movement.
Dramatic footage shows how police in riot gear lined up youngsters on their knees with their hands tied behind them.
The pupils, from the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Mante-la-Jolie, 30 miles west of Paris, had allegedly threatened to burn down the school during a nationwide day of action that blockaded schools in protest at education reforms.
It comes as French authorities are braced for the possibility of more riots and violence at anti-government protests this weekend.
Prime minister Edouard Philippe said 89,000 police will be deployed across France, with armoured cars in Paris and the Eiffel Tower and Louvre shut.
Police unions and city authorities met to strategise on how to handle the protests on Saturday, which are being held even though French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this week cancelled a fuel tax hike that had unleashed weeks of unrest.
The Eiffel Tower, along with more than a dozen museums, two theatres and other cultural sites in Paris, will be closed Saturday for security reasons.
Tomorrow is going to be the big day though. The “Yellow Vest” movement is preparing enormous rallies across France. We could very well see these protests and riots turn into an all out revolution against the government.
If people die, Macron is going to be held responsible and it is hard to see how he’ll be able to politically survive such a thing.