For the third week, the “yellow jacket” protesters demonstrate
in central Paris against French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to over
rising taxes and the high cost of living.
This time the demonstration was different despite
the low numbers of the participants, despite the security readiness, but the
ferocity of the demonstrations and the intent of some demonstrators to burn,
sabotage and armed confrontation were obvious.
Protesters in France have set cars, trash cans,
trees, public and private facilities, in addition to metro, cars, shops and cafés
and everything distinguish in Paris on fire.
The French President Emmanuel Macron’s handling of
the events was not wise and missed from the first moment the political
experience of such big events.
The president only talks tough after Yellow Jackets
riot in Paris on television to say to the demonstrators a single phrase: “I heard you” which reminded the French of the repercussions of a single
phrase when the former French leader, the founder of the Fifth Republic,
General de Gaulle, said to the Algerian revolutionaries in 1968, "i understood you" then the old
general use all the kinds of violence to suppress the revolution .
Perhaps this is what prompted some of the protesters
to arm themselves today in the face of security measurements.
But after I have experienced these events for two weeks
and seeing what happened with my own eyes, I tell all my French friends clearly
preserve your country.
I am writing to you because I am one of the lovers
of this country. I write to you as we have experienced in our country, Egypt. When
we participated in the early days of the January 2011 uprising in the belief
that it would bring us bread, freedom, social justice and human dignity, we
found ourselves turned into a radical Islamic emirate.
We found ourselves saw al-Qaeda followers in Kandahar
demonstration, raising their black banners in Cairo to begin a new era of
obscurity and backwardness.
We did not imagine that we were gathering our
children and women and going down to Tahrir Square on the 25th of January, raising
the flags of our country, after only one year, we will see a terrorist
belonging to the Brotherhood swearing in the same Square as president of Egypt.
We could not even imagine in our strongest
nightmares that we will reap that dreadful fate, a year after our glorious
uprising.
We went out on January 25th and the US dollar is
worth six Egyptian pounds. We are back and the dollar is worth eighteen pounds.
We went out to demand a better economic situation. The economy collapsed. We
went out for the freedom, come back with the most dictatorships groups to rule
us.
Today, on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, I
see what I saw with my own eyes on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Tahrir Square, and
Abbasid in Egypt.
We were very sorry when we realized that we had failed
to preserve our country. We were tired a lot, and we sacrificed a long time to
get it back from the hands of the crows. We are now digging into the rock to
build it again, and I fear that you would have a taste of it.
What I have
seen today from the “yellow jackets” does not express civilization or civilized
people. I have seen citizens do not belong to any value of the Western values of
civilization, I saw Trojans burning and civilization destroyed and some of “yellow
jackets protesters” come out of the wooden horse to open its doors to the
invaders to burn everything.
Under the Arc de Triomphe, protesters threw rocks
and broke down barriers as clouds of tear gas swirled around them. In other
parts of the city, vehicles were set on fire and shops were looted.
What happened today in Paris has nothing to do with
the peaceful expression of legitimate anger. There is no reason that justifies
security forces being attacked, businesses looted, public or private buildings
set on fire, bystanders or journalists threatened, or the Arc de Triomphe
defiled in this way.
There are already some humanitarian, social,
economic and political motives for some of those yellow jackets but what they are
doing is not related to those demands.
The perpetrators of this violence do not want
change, they don’t want any improvement, and they want chaos. They betray the
causes they claim to serve, and which they manipulate.
They want to burn Paris. Macron has to step forward
and declare with all courage cancelation of those decisions to uncover those
who dodged among the French good people.
French television showed images of protesters inside
the famous monument, spraying graffiti and taking selfies.
Troublemakers were mixing in with ordinary
protesters, called “yellow jackets” for their fluorescent vests, so they could
run from police more easily. So the protesters have not to take part in
violence.
