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Yellow vests protests
Yellow vests Revolution
Gilets jaunes protests
Part of the protests against Emmanuel Macron
A yellow vests protest in Belfort, France, on 29 December 2018
Date17 November 2018 – present
(5 years, 5 months and 3 weeks)
  • First phase: 17 November 2018 – 14 March 2020
    (1 year, 3 months and 26 days)
  • Second phase: 12 September 2020 – present
    (3 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Yellow vests protests France
Other countries:
  • Yellow vests protests Australia[1]
  • Yellow vests protests Belgium[2]
  • Yellow vests protests Bulgaria[3]
  • Yellow vests protests Burkina Faso[4]
  • Yellow vests protests Central African Republic[4]
  • Yellow vests protests Croatia[5]
  • Yellow vests protests Czechia[6]
  • Yellow vests protests Finland[7]
  • Yellow vests protests Germany[8]
  • Yellow vests protests Greece
  • Yellow vests protests Iraq[9]
  • Yellow vests protests Israel[10]
  • Yellow vests protests Ireland[11]
  • Yellow vests protests Italy[12]
  • Yellow vests protests Jordan[13]
  • Yellow vests protests Latvia
  • Yellow vests protests Lebanon[14]
  • Yellow vests protests Libya[15]
  • Yellow vests protests Netherlands[16]
  • Yellow vests protests Nigeria[17]
  • Yellow vests protests Pakistan[18]
  • Yellow vests protests Portugal[19]
  • Yellow vests protests Russia[20]
  • Yellow vests protests Serbia[21]
  • Yellow vests protests Slovakia[22]
  • Yellow vests protests Spain[23]
  • Yellow vests protests Sudan
  • Yellow vests protests Sweden[24]
  • Yellow vests protests Taiwan[25]
  • Yellow vests protests Tunisia[26]
  • Yellow vests protests Turkey[27]
  • Yellow vests protests United Kingdom[28]
  • Yellow vests protests United States
Caused by
  • Rise of crude oil prices in 2018[29]
  • Fuel tax[30]
  • Traffic enforcement cameras[31]
  • Austerity measures[32]
  • 2017 wealth tax repeal[33]
  • Opposition to neoliberalism[34][35]
Goals
  • Increase of minimum wage in France[36]
  • End to austerity measures[37]
  • Improved standard of living[37]
  • Government transparency and accountability[37]
  • Improved government services for rural areas[37]
  • 42 demands in total[37]
  • Constitutional proposal for a citizens' initiative referendum, including constitutional, legislative, abrogative, and recall initiatives[38]
Methods
  • Protests
  • Civil disobedience[39]
  • Collectivist anarchism[40]
  • Blocking traffic[41]
  • Disabling traffic enforcement cameras[31]

Other occurrences

  • Violence[42]
  • Property damage[43][44]
  • Vandalism[42]
  • Barricades[42]
  • Rioting[45][46]
  • Looting[47]
StatusOngoing[48][49]
Concessions
  • Cancellation of fuel tax and six-month moratorium on diesel and petrol price changes[50]
  • Announcement that price of Électricité de France blue tariffs would not increase before March 2019[51]
  • Elimination of tax on overtime and end-of-year bonuses[52]
  • Decrease of fuel and motor taxes[41]
  • €100 ($112) wage increase for employees[53]
Parties
Gilets jaunes
France Government
  • National Police
    • CRS
    • National Gendarmerie
    • Mobile Gendarmerie
    • Rural Guards
    • French Army[54]
Pro-government protesters[55]
Lead figures

Jacline Mouraud
Étienne Chouard[56]
Priscillia Ludosky
Maxime Nicolle[57]
Éric Drouet [fr]
Jérôme Rodrigues [fr][58][59]
Christophe Chalençon[60]
François Boulo[61]

France Emmanuel Macron
President of the French Republic France Édouard Philippe
Prime Minister of France (2017–2020)
France Christophe Castaner
Minister of Interior (2018–2020)
France Jean Castex
Prime Minister of France (2020–2022)
France Gérald Darmanin
Minister of Interior (2020–)

Number
287,710 protesters (peak, according to the Ministry of the Interior)[62]
8,000 police (15 Dec 2018: Paris)
Casualties
Death(s)11 people, including 3 yellow vests, were killed in traffic accidents caused by yellow vests roadblocks in Belgium and France, 2 yellow vests, both aged over 50, died during the demonstrations due to heart problems unrelated to the protests, 1 woman died of a surgical shock at the hospital after being hit by a tear gas grenade in the margins of a demonstration[63]
Injuries4,439 (police and civilians)[64]
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The Yellow Vests Protests or Yellow Jackets Protests or Yellow Vests Revolution (French: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, pronounced [muvmɑ̃ de ʒilɛ ʒon]) were a series of populist,[65] grassroots[66] weekly protests in France that began on 17 November 2018.

After an online petition posted in May 2018 had attracted nearly one million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November.[67] The movement was initially motivated by rising crude oil and fuel prices, a high cost of living, and economic inequality. The movement argued that a disproportionate burden of taxation in France was falling on the working and middle classes,[68][69][70] especially in rural and peri-urban areas.[32][71] The protesters called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum wage increase,[38] among other things. On 29 November 2018, a list of 42 demands was made public and went viral on social media, becoming a de facto structuring basis for the movement. The demands covered a wide range of topics, mostly related to democracy, and social and fiscal justice.[37][72] Participation in the weekly protests diminished due to violence, particularly due to the loss of eyes, hands, and neurological disorders caused by police blast balls.[73][74][75] The protests eventually stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France but continued again after health restrictions were lifted.[76]

The movement is supported primarily by populists on both sides of the political spectrum, but rarely by moderates. According to one poll, few of those protesting had voted for Macron in the 2017 French presidential election; many had shown political alienation by not voting, or had voted for far-right or far-left candidates.[77] Rising fuel prices initially sparked the demonstrations. Yellow high-visibility vests, which French law requires all drivers to have in their vehicles and to wear during emergency situations, were chosen as "a unifying thread and call to arms" because of their convenience, visibility, ubiquity, and association with working-class industries.[78] The protests have involved demonstrations and the blocking of roads and fuel depots, sometimes developing into major riots,[79] described as the most violent since those of May 68.[80] The police action, resulting in multiple incidents of loss of limb, has been criticized by politicians and international media; it has sometimes resulted in police officers being charged for their violent behavior.[81] The movement has received international attention. Protesters in many places around the world have used the yellow vest as a symbol.[82][83] About 3 million people have participated in the yellow-vests movement.[84]

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