French president is presiding over a crisis meeting to look for solutions to the yellow vests movements that appears to have been out of control

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday held a crisis meeting in search of solutions to unprecedented violence and chaos in Paris as part of the “yellow vests” movement.

Macron, who had just returned from the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, met with Prime Minister Eduard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and the “competent authorities” to find a solution to a move that seems to have slipped out of control and to the events of yesterday, Paris is insurrection and violence.

Before that, Macron took a symbolic step and visited the teacher of the Arc de Triomphe, which was subjected to sabotage on Saturday, on the third day of the move of the “yellow vests” denouncing the president’s economic and social policy.

More than 136,000 people from across France took part Saturday, the third day of protests to mobilize “yellow vests”, in which 263 people were injured, compared with 166,000 last Saturday.

In Paris, 412 people were arrested and 378 were arrested, according to an official toll on Sunday of the police department, which estimated 133 people injured in the French capital.

On Saturday night, a car driver was killed in Arl, southeast of the country, after he collided with a parked truck due to a traffic jam as a result of a “yellow vests” barrier.

The incident brings the number of people killed to three since the movements was launched three weeks ago.

On Saturday evening, as cars were burning, shops were vandalized and barriers were being erected between luxury buildings, Macron accused the protesters of “only wanting to create chaos”.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner didn’t rule out the possibility of imposing a state of emergency to avoid any new violence on Saturday.

Senate President Gerard Larche on Sunday called on the government to provide a “political response” to the crisis, saying it was “not right” for the government to “drive a third black” in Paris.

The government has had to find a security response to the acts of the saboteurs but can no longer tolerate the “legitimate anger of the yellow vests”, according to the president.

After Saturday’s events, which were also marred by violence and confrontations in the suburbs, officials hinted that there would be little change in form, for government action.

“We made a mistake so far away from the reality of the French”, said Stanislas Girini, the new head of the Republican Party, who was elected to the Le Journal newspaper on Saturday.

On Saturday evening, Castaner acknowledged that the government “sometimes made a mistake in communicating”.

But the opposition, like a section of the “yellow vests”, first demands a strong government gesture, starting with a freeze on raising fuel taxes.
On the right, Republican leader Laurent Fouquet called for a referendum on environmental and tax policy for Emmanuel Macron.

Marine Le pen (extreme right) asked Macron for a meeting with leaders of opposition political parties.

It also demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly and the holding of new elections.

In the left camp, Socialist Party leader Olivier Four asked for the formation of committees on purchasing power.

Jean-Luc Michelon, the leader of the rebel France movement, called for the re-imposition of the wealth tax, praising “the rebellion of the citizens, which frightens Macron and the rich”.

Amid these demands, most of which have been on the table for days, the government has not yet changed its position.

Government spokesman Benjamin Grifo said the executive was “ready” to engage with representatives of the “free yellow vests” who wrote an article in the Le Journal du Dimanche, calling for an end to the crisis.