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3 orang mati, lebih 200 cedera dan 400 orang ditahan akibat rusuhan di Paris hujung minggu lalu.
Sebabnya, kerana kos kehidupan yang kian meningkat semakin membebankan warga Perancis biasa. Apabila Presiden Makron bercadang menaikkan cukai gas, maka kemarahan rakyat semakin membara.
Ramai di antara mereka, terutama di kawasan luar kota, hidup kais pagi makan pagi. Banyak persamaan cerita warga2 perancis di bawah ni dan rakayt marhaen di Malaysia, Indonesa dan negeri2 lain. Nampaknya kat mana2 pun orang kaya makin kaya, tapi yang miskin sama je.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage
By Adam Nossiter
Dec. 2, 2018
GUÉRET, France — At the bare bottom of Florian Dou’s shopping cart at the discount supermarket, there was a packet of $6 sausages and not much else. It was the end of last week, and the end of last month. At that point, “my salary and my wife’s have been gone for 10 days,” he lamented.
How to survive those days between when the money runs out and when his paycheck arrives for his work as a warehouse handler has become a monthly challenge. The same is true for so many others in Guéret, a grim provincial town in south-central France. And it has made Mr. Dou angry.
So he used what money he had left and drove 250 miles to join the fiery protests on Saturday in Paris, where the police moved in with tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets.
“We knew they were sent in to get rid of us,” he said the day after, “and believe me, they were not into Mr. Nice Guy.” But he vows the protesters are not going anywhere.
In places like these, a quiet fear gnaws at households: What happens when the money runs out around the 20th? What do I put in the refrigerator with nothing left in the account and the electricity bill to pay? Which meal should I skip today? How do I tell my wife again there is no going out this weekend?
“We live with stress,” said Fabrice Girardin, 46, a former carpet-layer who now looks after other people’s pets to get by. “Every month, at the end of the month, we say, ‘will there be enough to eat?”’
Florian Dou checking his shopping list at a grocery store in Guéret, France.CreditAndrea Mantovani for The New York Times
Mr. Dou — who says his 9-year-old son has never been on vacation and his gross salary of 1,300 euros a month, about $1,475, “disappears immediately in the bills” — was among them. There is little left after high taxes and costly utilities such as electricity.
“We just don’t make it to the end of the month,” said Elodie Marton, a mother of four who had joined the protesters at the demonstration outside town. “I’ve got 10 euros left,” she said, as a dozen others tried to get themselves warm around an iron-barrel fire.
