Yellow vests: the great story of a sling that no one had seen coming

Born of a muffled anger far from parties and unions, the sling of yellow vests has stunned an entire country. Story of three months of anger.

Elusive, uncontrollable, irrecoverable and insatiable? The movement of yellow vests has no equivalent in contemporary French history. And we will probably talk for a long time this autumn during which a sudden increase in prices at the pump suddenly crystallized anger long kills by thousands of French people with modest incomes. And how did the latter get their high-visibility jackets out of their glove box to put them on their dashboards, then on their backs, to shout their anger at the roundabouts and tolls of France and France? Navarre. And how, finally, this reflective vest bent and staggered the power in place.

Heterogeneous anger, ranging from the simple question of the car budget to visceral hatred of institutions; moving claims carried by often ephemeral leaders; almost antagonistic modes of action ranging from child-free blocking to urban riots: this unprecedented, protean, horizontal movement has given the executive more than 10 billion in ballast on purchasing power. Never seen, acquired all the same at the cost of 10 deaths, mainly in accidents, and more than 1800 injured in the demonstrations, including more than half among the police...

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