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Calls for end to gilets jaunes protests in wake of Strasbourg shooting
Source: The Guardian
Calls for end to gilets jaunes protests in wake of Strasbourg shooting
French ministers line up to appeal for calm after three die in Tuesday night’s attack
Angelique Chrisafis in Strasbourg
Wed 12 Dec 2018 17.01 GMT
French government ministers have appealed for the nationwide gilets jaunes protests to stop in the wake of the Strasbourg attack.
After a gunman opened fire near a Christmas market in Strasbourg city centre on Tuesday night, killing three people and injuring several more, the justice and interior ministers suggested that the anti-government tax revolt should wind up its nationwide protests and street marches.
The gilets jaunes – named after their high-visibility yellow jackets — have staged four weeks of protests on roundabouts and tollbooths across the country, as well as four Saturdays of street marches that led to violence and vandalism in Paris and other cities.
Despite the French president, Emmanuel Macron, this week promising to raise the minimum wage and drop taxes on pensions as well as scrapping the green fuel-tax that sparked the protests, many gilets jaunes had vowed to stage a fifth Paris street march this Saturday, insisting Macron had not done enough to address social inequality.
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French ministers line up to appeal for calm after three die in Tuesday night’s attack
Angelique Chrisafis in Strasbourg
Wed 12 Dec 2018 17.01 GMT
French government ministers have appealed for the nationwide gilets jaunes protests to stop in the wake of the Strasbourg attack.
After a gunman opened fire near a Christmas market in Strasbourg city centre on Tuesday night, killing three people and injuring several more, the justice and interior ministers suggested that the anti-government tax revolt should wind up its nationwide protests and street marches.
The gilets jaunes – named after their high-visibility yellow jackets — have staged four weeks of protests on roundabouts and tollbooths across the country, as well as four Saturdays of street marches that led to violence and vandalism in Paris and other cities.
Despite the French president, Emmanuel Macron, this week promising to raise the minimum wage and drop taxes on pensions as well as scrapping the green fuel-tax that sparked the protests, many gilets jaunes had vowed to stage a fifth Paris street march this Saturday, insisting Macron had not done enough to address social inequality.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/gilets-jaunes-protests-strasbourg-shooting-calls-end