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| Subject: Blowback, lol: France’s climate change commitments trigger rising diesel prices and street protests Sat Nov 17, 2018 8:27 pm | |
| PARIS — The French president is under fire again, this time over rising fuel prices. On Saturday, some 244,000 people, many clad in yellow vests, took to — and, in many places, also literally took — the streets, according to the French Interior Ministry. The ministry said a network of drivers blocked roads at some 2,000 locations across the country, generating backups for miles and causing one death. A 63-year-old protester was killed in the eastern Savoie region when a driver panicked by demonstrators accidentally accelerated a vehicle into the crowd, French media reported. In other incidents nationwide, 106 people were reported injured, five seriously.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/frances-climate-change-commitments-trigger-rising-diesel-prices-and-street-protests/2018/11/17/fdc01fa6-e9b1-11e8-8449-1ff263609a31_story.html?utm_term=.b2e7b1ed3769
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