The “gilets jaunes” or “yellow vests” started out protesting fuel hikes in France’s rural communities. Now, their demonstrations have turned into a national movement against President. When the gilets jaunes revolt began on November 17, 2018, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to barricades and roundabouts across France, police had initially seemed overwhelmed. “I thought it was the revolution,” says Youri, sitting with a group of fellow leftist activists from Montreuil, eastern Paris. The biggest Facebook group is the “Compteur Officiel de Gilets Jaunes” or official yellow jacket count, which boasts 1.7 million members. Another group is the “Carte des Rassemblements. The biggest Facebook group is the 'Compteur Officiel de Gilets Jaunes' or official yellow jacket count, which boasts 1.7 million members. Another group is the 'Carte des Rassemblements,' which.

Police took more than 250 people in for questioning and fired tear gas during violent scenes in Paris on Saturday, after the gilets jaunes, or yellow vests, took to the streets of the capital for the first time since lockdown was lifted in May.

Footage and photos taken in the city Saturday show cars set on fire by protesters and tear gas being used by police to disperse them.

As a result of the demonstrations, at least 256 protesters were taken in for questioning and 90 were also issued warnings, Paris police said at 6:20 p.m. local time (12:20 p.m ET).

A pen knife, a bow and a hammer were among the objects seized from those demonstrating, according to a tweet posted by the prefecture.

Although the yellow vest movement had planned four demonstrations on Saturday, the police banned two of them, the Paris police prefecture said in a statement on Friday.

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Police chief Didier Lallement described the banned protests as 'parades down the Champs-Élysees' while speaking to French TV station BFMTV on Saturday.

'We cannot have chaos and destruction on the Champs,' he added.

As a precaution, businesses on the avenue were told by the authorities to shut for four hours on Saturday morning and were advised to 'place means of protection in front of their establishments.'

The movement, which takes its name from the yellow high-visibility jackets which French motorists must carry in their vehicles, started in November 2018 in opposition to plans to increase fuel prices, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in demonstration.

In its first year, the movement resulted in a 10 billion euro ($11.05 billion) aid package for the poor and led French President Emmanuel Macron to back down in the face of protest, something he had said he would not do.

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Alternative forms[edit]

• (member of protest movement):Gilet jaune

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.lɛ ʒon/

Noun[edit]

m (pluralgilets jaunes)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: seegilet,‎ jaune.
2. a yellowhigh-visibilitysafetyvest

   Synonyms:gilet de haute visibilité, gilet de sécurité

   Hyponym:EPI

3. (by extension,informal,metonymically) a motorwaypatroller, who wears such a vest

   Synonym:homme en jaune

4. (by extension,France,metonymically) a member of a French protest movement which started in late 2018 against rising fuel prices; members of the movement wore such vests

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:gilet jaune.

Coordinate terms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• English: yellow vest, yellow jacket(calque)

Gilet Jaune Paris

See also[edit]

• bonnet rouge(literally “red cap”)

Gilet Jaune Paris