France Says 1,800 People Convicted Over Yellow Vest Protests
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Almost three months of protests across France by the “Yellow Vests” have led to 1,800 criminal convictions, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday during a parliamentary debate. Another roughly 1,400 people are awaiting sentencing.
Philippe also condemned various anti-Semitic acts over the weekend, including the word “Juden,” meaning Jews in German, sprayed on a bagel shop in Paris and swastika graffiti on a memorial to Simone Veil, a former minister and death camp survivor.