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Week eight of the protests saw over 137,000 police take to the streets to meet protesters in frigid temperatures.

Week eight of the protests saw over 137,000 police take to the streets to meet protesters in frigid temperatures.

In the Macron administration's search to blame the leaderless protests, which span the political spectrum, on an [[ideological]] faction, an early [[Facebook]] organizer who describes himself as a [[pacifist]] was arrested. His November 2018 Facebook posting, that proposed a protest against the government global warming tax, went viral and catapulted him to the [[mainstream media]]'s honorific title as "spokesman." During the seventh week of protests, Eric Drouet was arrested and charged with carry a stick of wood in his backpack and leading a mob intent on violence.<ref>https://m.huffingtonpost.fr/2018/12/22/gilets-jaunes-eric-drouet-place-en-garde-a-vue-a-paris_a_23625285/?utm_hp_ref=fr-eric-drouet&ncid=other_homepage_tiwdkz83gze&utm_campaign=mw_entry_recirc</ref> His arrest spurned cries of "[[dictatorship]]" and "[[totalitarianism]]."

In the Macron administration's search to blame the leaderless protests, which span the political spectrum, on an [[ideological]] faction, an early [[Facebook]] organizer was arrested. His November 2018 Facebook posting, that proposed a protest against the government global warming tax, went viral and catapulted him to the [[mainstream media]]'s honorific title as "spokesman." During the seventh week of protests, Eric Drouet, a self-described [[pacifist]], was arrested while lighting candles for the 10 victims of [[climate  science]] and [[globalization]] run amok and charged with leading a mob intent on violence.<ref>https://m.huffingtonpost.fr/2018/12/22/gilets-jaunes-eric-drouet-place-en-garde-a-vue-a-paris_a_23625285/?utm_hp_ref=fr-eric-drouet&ncid=other_homepage_tiwdkz83gze&utm_campaign=mw_entry_recirc</ref> His arrest spurned cries of "[[dictatorship]]" and "[[totalitarianism]]."

==European Spring==

==European Spring==