Anna van Densky: According to reports from Paris reporter Gaspard Glanz has been handcuffed. Arrests have multiplied, also a journalist from French newspaper Le Figaro has been taken to custody by an agent of anti-riot police during 23 week of protests of Yellow Vestsnamed Acte XXIII. The Vth Republic under Macron‘s leadership swiftly degenerates into Banana Republic, using police batons to oppress wide-spread public discontent. Citizens with shot off eyes, ripped off limbs, and reporters handcuffed – is that European “Renaissance” Macron’s party “En Marche” is marching to?..
“I adore to inhale the smell of tear gas in the morning“, wrote Gaspar Glanz on his Twitter micro blog page. “Ideals are peaceful history is violent” is the second line, defining his vision.
“One tries to prevent independent journalists by fear. The censorship of absence on spot” Gaspard Glanz writes, explaining governments’s policy towards independent press, covering Yellow Vestsprotests against Macron‘s presidency.
Anna van Densky OPINION The images of a Yellow Vestprotester with a ripped off hand agonizing in arms of street medics, attempting to deliver first aid, is hundred times more shocking, because of the place of the incident – the National Assembly of France – the parliament, the democratic institution, representing citizens.
If such an image had come from Venezuela there would have been an immediate call for a Security Councilmeeting for discussing the violations with human rights there, and most probably to make the resolution more convincing, the Americans would sent there a couple of missiles, just to be sure the warning is taken seriously.
However if the events are taking place in a country which is a permanent member of the UNSecurity Council, and founding member of the European Union, there is nobody to remind the French government about the respect of human rights. Equally silent is the European Union, proudly celebrating the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a milestone document, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10.12.1948) at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France.
While Europe is celebrating the Declaration, it is also carefully watching the compliance, but mainly in oil-rich countries, like Venezuela, where you have to be careful with human rights, or you are risking to lose everything like it happened with the leaders of Iraq or Libya after the riot in Benghazi…
Benghazi. The most striking is the silence of the leading French human rights defenders like Bernard-Henry Lévy, known as BHL, who was promoting the intervention to Libya without the UN resolution, insisting the international organisations are far too slow to react adequately on ongoing human tragedy there. But nowadays who from famous French human rights defenders is standing against mutilation of citizens, manifesting their indignation with the government’s policies?..
Mid-January the LCI TV channel has revealed statistics pointing at 1700 wounded, among them around 100 people with serious injuries.
Among grave injuries the most common were head wounds, and often with serious consequences, leaving people with lifelong disabilities: 13 have lost an eye since the beginning of the movement as a result of police shooting. There were are 9 (+1) hand injuries caused by grenades; 5 in the leg, one in the reproductive organs, and one in the foot. The wounded are mostly men. There are 10 women out of 93 cases, according to BFMTV assembling data mid-January.
#ActeXIII Wasn't it too dangerous to sit so close to Idriss Déby? He might have caught there some tyranny bacillus, and human rights abuse virus to respond to #YellowVests#GiletsJaunes with ripping off hands and eyes. Viruses are dangerous, never come too close to their host! pic.twitter.com/1MolJbGrWB
Nevertheless the numbers of injured and mutilated don’t motivate international organisations, obliged to defend human rights, to say a word on French government repressions, reducing the human rights to a tool of foreign policy, a reason to interfere in home affairs of the other countries, especially those which are oil-rich…
In prime time indignant Prime ministerEdouard Philippeensures audiences that hundreds of thousands of people in the streets would be not allowed to overthrow the French institutions. He called for new tough laws against the Yellow Vests protesters.
"We need to preserve the right to demonstrate in France and we must sanction those who break the law," PM Edouard Philippe says, announcing planned legislation to toughen punishment for undeclared demonstrations amid yellow vest protestshttps://t.co/Yp3UVgB1W5
But why French are so DOUBLE passionately supporting protest movements elsewhere, immediately blaming the leaders in oppression of their citizens? Why cheering at violence of Maidanrevolution in Kiev,overthrowing the legitimate, but unpopular President Viktor Yanukovych? He was elected in the procedures, which were acknowledged across the world as democratic. In Ukraine in the capital the uprising was performed by minority groups, who were actively supported by French government in their fight to overthrow the legitimate head of the state, and the government. Subsequently the coup d’état in Ukraine was ‘legitimate‘ because it brought to power the pro-Western candidate.
Why French government is so oppressive towards #YellowVests while cheering overthrowing institutions in other countries?#EuroMaidan riot in Kiev was 'Revolution"&'liberation" from legitimate, but unpopular President, while discontent of French with #Macron is a crime! pic.twitter.com/qYUCIVtyQS
It would be interesting to hear the comment of the oust President Yanoukovichon intention of French government to crush the protests of the Yellow Vests.Does he think the Ukrainehistory would have taken a different cause, if he had not listen the Frenchhypocrites, applying double standards to themselves, and the rest of the world?..
“Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi”, Romans said, enshrining double standard for the God Jupiter, and his bull. But in XXI century this arrogance of playing Jupiter in guided palace will certainly not pass, serving as a seance of an aversion therapy vis-à-visFrench leadership.
#Macron#Jupiter vows to continue his economic policies in spite of #YellowVests protests. 'Elected King' of France in gilded palace, he presumes €100 extra to lowest incomes would do to go back to blacks. So French, so Royal! pic.twitter.com/OjXkdkJxZP
Macron-Philippe might scorn the grievances of people, and wrestle down the discontent of Yellow Vest, but they will certainly lose respect of European, despising pretensions hypocrites, claiming leadership: false democrats, false republicans, false human beings.
