In the newly built correctional court on the outskirts of north-west Paris, the gilets jaunes – minus their high-visibility vests – passed in and out of the glass walled docks in quick succession. Well-spoken, tidy, clipped beards and short hair, these gilets jaunes (yellow vests) seemed hardly the stone-throwing, shop-smashing rabble those packed into the public benches had come to watch. “I don’t know Paris,” he said. The court was told police found texts on his phone to friends suggesting they should “come armed”. An agricultural worker from the Drôme in south-east France, earning €1,200 a month, he’d come to Paris with three friends.

Source: The Guardian December 08, 2018 11:37 UTC