黄ベスト運動デモ隊、高級百貨店のフロアを占拠　仏パリ

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスの首都パリで17日、エマニュエル・マクロン大統領の政策に抗議する「ジレ・ジョーヌ（黄色いベスト）」運動のデモ隊が、高級百貨店「ギャラリー・ラファイエット」の一部を占拠し、警備員らに排除された。前日にはパリ市内で黄ベスト運動の発生から1年の節目を迎えたデモが行われ、警官隊との衝突が発生していた。（写真は仏パリにある高級百貨店「ギャラリー・ラファイエット」の外に立つ警察の機動隊）
　オペラ座界隈に位置するギャラリー・ラファイエットでは、詰め掛けたデモ隊が店舗の３階を占拠。反資本主義や反政府運動のスローガンを連呼し、客らが避難する事態となった。店舗はこの日、終日閉鎖に追い込まれた。
　ギャラリー・ラファイエットは裕福な外国人に人気のある観光スポットの一つ。デモ隊は「消費者主義の殿堂」と呼んで抗議の標的にしている。
　指導者のいない黄ベスト運動は、開始から１年を記念するデモを前日から行っていた。警察は週末にかけて大勢の参加者を拘束。検察は１７日、未成年８人を含めた１６９人を勾留中だと明らかにした。
　パリでは同日、２０人が逮捕されたが、大半の抗議集会は平和的に行われた。
　フランスの地方部では、デモは祭りのような雰囲気を醸し出していた。黄色いベストを身に着けた多くの参加者は、昨年マクロン氏の経済政策に対して抗議活動を開始した際に占拠した道路の交差点を再び訪れた。
　南東部サボワ県のルポンドボーボアザンでは、昨年抗議集会の初日に交差点で車にひかれて死亡したシャンタル・マゼさんを追悼するために約６０人が集まった。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/11/19-08:33）

French yellow vest demonstrators occupied a top Parisian department store on Sunday, a day after clashes in the capital on the first anniversary of the protest movement.
The glitzy Galeries Lafayette store in the Opera shopping district was evacuated after dozens of protesters chanting anti-capitalist and anti-government slogans took over the third floor.
(President Emmanuel) Macron is destroying France and your rights, don't criticise us We're here for you, one placard read.
The protesters were expelled shortly afterwards by security staff.
The store -- one of the top destinations in Paris for moneyed foreign tourists, which was targeted by the demonstrators as a consumerist temple -- said it would remain closed for the rest of the day.
The protest came on a second day of demonstrations to mark the anniversary of a leaderless revolt that badly rattled President Emmanuel Macron's centrist government.
Twenty people were arrested Sunday in Paris but in most places the protests were peaceful.
On Saturday, police in Paris had battled rioters for hours around the southeastern Place d'Italie square, where a yellow vest march was shut down by the authorities after turning violent.
Several cars were overturned or set alight, bus shelters were smashed and a monument to a World War II hero Marshal Alphonse Juin was defaced by demonstrators dressed in black, who wore masks to hide their faces.
- 'Thugs' and 'brutes' -
Police checked thousands of demonstrators over the weekend. On Sunday, prosecutors said 169 were held in custody including eight minors.
Castaner claimed that there were few demonstrators among at the protesters in Paris, who he said were mainly thugs, brutes who came to fight the security forces and prevent the emergency services from doing their work.
But leftist TV historian Mathilde Larrere wrote on Twitter that she and two friends were prevented from leaving the protest after the clashes began because of police crowd control tactics.
She accused the police of tactics unworthy of a democratic state, citing the repeated teargassing and (stun) grenades going off everywhere.
In rural France, by contrast, the mood of the anniversary was more festive. Many yellow vests returned to the traffic roundabouts they occupied last year when they began rebelling against Macron's economic policies.
But at the town of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin in the southeast Savoie region, around 60 people paid tribute to a yellow vest protester who died a year ago. Chantal Mazet was knocked over by a car at a roundabout on the first day of the protests.
The interior ministry put the number of demonstrators on Saturday at 28,600 nationwide but the organisers said nearly 40,000 people had rallied -- a far cry from the estimated 282,000 who took part in the first big day of protests on November 17, 2018.
The yellow vests, who accuse Macron of ruling on behalf of the urban elite -- the spark for the protests was a series of fuel price hikes that squeezed car-dependent rural-dwellers -- are adamant that they have not gone away.
They are now looking to join forces with the trade union movement, which is planning a major transport strike over pension reforms starting on December 5.