Authorities deploy around 70,000 officers across France as protests intensify, with businesses shuttered and tourist attractions closed. Student representatives say they are not satisfied after meeting President Emmanuel Macron.
Authorities deploy around 70,000 officers across France as protests intensify, with businesses shuttered and tourist attractions closed. Student representatives say they are not satisfied after meeting President Emmanuel Macron.
Seventy thousand cops, plywood over the shop windows, Louvre-style closures for the tourists. Fine. But nobody in that article says what the students actually asked Macron for, or what he offered that they rejected. So who is paying for the boarded-up bakeries, and how long until someone admits the protest has become the state’s excuse to stop talking?