Feature - Yellow Vests Protest in France Regions.
Jean Gaumy
For a fourth straight weekend, the "Gilets Jaunes" ( "yellow vests" ), so-called after the high-visibility jackets, blocked roads across France in protest in all the country at rising taxes on diesel and petrol, which the government says are to fund eco-friendly projects and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of this pop-up movement are struggling families and workers, many of them from France's rural areas or the run-down suburbs that ring its major cities.
After calls have gone out on social media, demonstrations were staged around in the country. Roadblocks were set up to slow down...
