French riot police could use chemical powder to demobilise yellow vest protesters
By Laura Cat
Losing the plot. Macron’s government to now employ a chemical powder for riot police to use against the Yellow Vest protesters.
As well, given the video footage given to Daily Mail of French riot police going inside of a Burger King restaurant to attack protesters and another of seven or eight riot police violently beating a lone protester, it gives one pause for thought, is this just to silence the voices of the French people?
The government have described the protesters as violent and the protests as a ‘law and order crisis’, though the leaked videos might seem to challenge the official position.
French police have already used water cannon and teargas, which is classed as a chemical weapon, and banned from warzones, in accordance with international agreements; on protesters.
This could raise questions among civic rights groups and monitoring organisations. The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, is one such organisation, of which France is a member.
In Great Britain, the use of teargas is heavily restricted. It would never be used against large crowds containing men, women and children, as France has been.
French security forces could use the debilitating powder in the centre of Paris against protesters. The chemical can be spread across an area equivalent to six football pitches in ten seconds.
Macron’s administration ‘desperate’ after five weekends of ‘Yellow Vest’ protests throughout France.
Now senior officers have confirmed that some of the 14 armoured cars deployed by gendarmes contained ‘a radical device that was only to be used as a last resort’ against their own citizens.