PARIS — Boarded-up shops. Empty cafes. And, for the most part, two main colors: the bright yellow vests of protesters and the black gear of riot police. For the fifth straight weekend, France was confronted by determined “Yellow Vests” protesters who gathered on Saturday in Paris and other cities in a challenge to President Emmanuel Macron and his policies. This time, they were defying both bitter cold and security warnings from the government, which had said protests would complicate the task of preventing terrorism in the days after an attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg killed four people and injured 11 others.

Source: New York Times December 15, 2018 10:28 UTC