On Paris' Champs Elysees, shattered glass and smoking ruins.
PARIS - It is meant to be one of the world's most elegant streets: more than a kilometre of boutiques, restaurants, sidewalk cafes and fashion outlets vying for tourists' attention. But on Monday, the Champs Elysees looked more like a construction site.
Whether the Disney store or Samsung, Tissot, Zara or Dior, few major retailers were left untouched by the rampage, which also took in a cinema, Hugo Boss, a Renault branded cafe, an Iran Air office and banks from Societe Generale to HSBC. "It's a bit of a mess," said Michael Bilaniuk, a tourist from Ontario, Canada who said he had come straight to the Champs Elysees to check out the scene after arriving in France, aware that the Gilets Jaunes had been on the rampage.
"They have millions, we are the millions" read one. Another threatened:"We are a legion, you are pawns, be careful."Since the 'yellow vest' movement began in November, originally as a protest against fuel taxes before morphing into a general denunciation of Macron's politics, the government has struggled to neutralise the threat.
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