Black Bloc overturned a huge construction trailer and set it ablaze (pictured) right in front of the center, which I’m sure is covered in black smoke tonight. However, I restate the facts: not Daesh, not armed, 1 Black Bloc for every 250 protesters, 4 hours of protester kettling (if you want to call one-way kettling, “kettling”).ĭecember 5th was thus obviously a major victory for Black Bloc and their online propaganda, and for another reason as well: The bottleneck was also right in front of one of the biggest union community centres in Paris. A big reason for that is because the bottleneck Black Bloc chose meant that cops couldn’t attack them from too many angles. The length of the delay was the only really notable aspect, because as far as violent demonstrations in Paris go, it was pretty tame. Just 500 unarmed Black Bloc – not battle-hardened, insane Daesh terrorists – stopped a quarter million people from advancing for FOUR hours! On December 5th France’s long, long, LONG-awaited General Strike against austerity measures began, and it was a huge success: 90% of trains were shut down nationwide, there was an unprecedented walk out by teachers, and as many as 1.5 million people marched despite temperatures near zero.Īnd yet the march in Paris was a total failure.įor nearly four hours I watched perhaps 500 Black Bloc members hijack the front of the march and stop an estimated 250,000 people from moving.
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