“They are changing the rules mid-game, said Christine D., a 52-year-old schoolteacher who was protesting and declined to give her last name. “They don’t communicate enough with the people.”“He is completely out to lunch,” she added of Mr. Macron. The government deployed thousands of additional police officers in Paris alone to prepare for potential violence. In Paris, the police announced that officers had carried out 9,350 “preventive checks” and 71 people had been arrested by 3:30 p.m. “Either you listen, or you continue to be stubborn the way the president has been since he was elected,” Mr. Martinez told reporters at the start of the Paris demonstration.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2019 08:18 UTC