Tag: Brutality

France announces massive police mobilization

An extra 13,000 state cops will be deployed to counter nationwide protests, the interior minister has announced: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has ordered 13,000 police officers into the streets of France’s major cities as protests against the government’s controversial pension reforms continue. Darmanin said that he is expecting ’radical activists’ from abroad to instigate violence at the demonstrations but declined to reveal the source.

NATO carried out inhumane experiment in Balkans – Health Minister

The US-led NATO military bloc bombed Serbia with toxic depleted uranium, which Britain now wants to give to Ukraine. NATO’s use of depleted uranium munitions in its air war against Yugoslavia was a horrible and inhumane experiment against the entire region, Serbian Health Minister Danica Grujicic has said. Contamination from these munitions led to a surge in cancer, autoimmune disease, and infertility, Grujicic added. 

France in Flames as protests said to be out of control

Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron’s pension reform. French authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Over a million demonstrators took to the streets across the country in what some security sources described as an ’insurrection’ against the government in Paris.

The real aggressor is America, whose megalomania threatens Russia

The United States is not interested in peace in Ukraine and will continue to provide Kiev with military assistance until Russia is weakened, Oskar Lafontaine, co-founder and former chairman of the German Left Party, said on German television. He is convinced that NATO’s eastward expansion provoked Moscow, because no state wants a knife to its neck. Americans should not do to other countries what they would not like to be done to them, emphasizes the German politician.

Turmoil on Western Europe: Fires and clashes break out at French protest (VIDEOS)

Police fired tear gas at ‘a group of troublemakers’ in the city of Rennes: A protest against government pension reforms turned violent in the French city of Rennes on Tuesday, as riot police used tear gas to dispel a group of around 200 outraged demonstrators who had built barricades and pelted officers with fireworks. Tens of thousands of people also took part in strikes and protests across France and the Netherlands.

French union to cut electricity supply to politicians and billionaires ahead of the nationwide strike 

French union CGT says they will cut electricity supply to lawmakers and billionaires ahead of the nationwide strike on Thursday. Update 2 pm (January 18): The General Confederation of Labour (CGT), a national French trade union, has announced that they will cut off the electricity supply going to lawmakers and billionaires, before the nationwide protests on Thursday, January 19.