french anon bringing news about France Hello Goats, I know you guys are mostly focused on what’s going on in the U.S but I also know you like having news from France.  I had not posted in a while about yellow vest protest because there’s not that much going on. There still are protest every Saturday, but it seems, in my opinion, that it’s not improving much our situation here.  Our president, Micron, has organized a national debate which has been ongoing for the few last weeks. He’s going everywhere in the country to talk with regular people and mostly mayors. It’s just a communication operation if you ask me since he already said he won’t change the way he runs the country. He’s trying to close the deal by setting up a referendum on the E.U election day coming in May.   Approval rate, according to MSM poll, is still high (about 55-60%). Macron’s politics rate approval is also rising…  There is also something new with Italy, Italian prime minister came in France to support the yellow vest, that was not very well seen in Paris as you can guess. There’s been a new development  which I find to be very funny and I believe you will enjoy ! First you guys need a bit of background :  On first of May, every year, we celebrate labour day. This is a tradition, in France, to go on the streets and protest on that very date which is a bank holiday. Anyone can come : unions, political parties, organizations whatever you could think of…  Here is a link of an English article explaining it better than I do :  https://www.thelocal.fr/20160429/what-to-expect-in-france-this-may-day Last year on that day Alexandre Benalla, got caught on video beating up some protesters. Issue is that the guy is not a cop but was, back then, working at the Elysées as a security man for Micron (a top guy, very close to Micron). He had nothing to do there… Micron, Gvt and many cops, highly ranked, knew about it the very next day.   They chose to remain silent hoping, I guess, it would not become public.  It did become public in July, that was a big thing here (very big indeed). Long story short he’s been fired and we’ve learnt since then that this guy should met justice soon for many good reasons.  Long story in English here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benalla_affair Last week Mediapart, which is a French media on internet (https://www.mediapart.fr/) which is supposed to be independent (I wouldn’t bet on that) got an audio recording of Mr Benalla bragging about the affair and what Micron told him. That was a very private conversation (that took place back in July when the affaire was revealed) and the audio is good so you can assume someone in the room was recording it without Benalla noticing, probably a trusted person.  On Monday cops come to mediapart office with a search warrant, mediapart refused it in order to protect their sources : they have the right to do so.  On Thursday we learn that Prime minister security chief of staff resigned from her position, it would seem that her husband and Benalla are involved in a contract negotiation with Iskander Makhmudov, 22nd wealthiest person in Russia according to Forbes…  That happened when Benalla was still in the Elysée. It would seem that Vincent Craze (which work in macron’s party) and was with Benalla on that 1st of may affaire received 300000 € in that business.  There also are rumors that Prime minister chief of staff could be the one who did the audio recording… So we have Russian collusion, bribery and, it would seem, treasonous acts between Micron and his prime minister. I don’t know if Q is behind any of this but if he’s not that might be a good opportunity to pull the trigger on French Gvt. And Micron. Hope you guys enjoyed our own Russian collusion which should be buried soon.  Q, if you have any free time this week-end and are willing to take care of France : Be my guest ! PS : I’ve read a few post about France saying there must be a civil war going on that is not the case at all, it’s actually calmer than it was a few weeks ago…