Police used tear gas on the Champs-Élysées after a day of largely peaceful demonstrations in Paris on the fifth straight weekend of protests by France’s “yellow vest” movement. By late afternoon, a water cannon in a line of police vans confronting protesters sprayed water to disperse them. Protesters wearing yellow vest (gilet jaune) holds a sign reading “France is not for sale” during a demonstration to protest against rising costs of living they blame on high taxes in Marseille on Saturday. Yellow vest protests were also being held in other parts of France, blocking roads and highways. The number of deaths linked to the protest rose to seven after Belgian police said a man accidentally crashed his car on Friday night into a truck that had stalled at a yellow vest roadblock on the French-Belgian border.– AP/Reuters

Source: The Irish Times December 15, 2018 12:22 UTC