Wrote about it on The Daily Beast.
Will be talking about it and writing about it a great deal more on MSNBC and The Daily Beast this weekend.
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| Taunting police, braving the teargas on Nov 24 |
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| Art gallery on Avenue Kléber damaged on Dec 1 |
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| Crowd of gilets jaunes and casseurs at Arc de Triompher on Dec 1. Graffiti on the monument reads "Yellow Vests Will Triumph" |
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| Taunting police at the Etoile on Nov 24 |
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| Tear gas canisters in torn-up pavement on Dec. 2 |
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| Cars burning on Rue Beaujon, a few blocks from my apartment. |
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| Smashed window on Avenue Wagram Nov 24 |
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| Woman covering her face in a cloud of teargas near the Etoile on Nov 24 |
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| Digging up paving stones to throw a people and things |
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| Tear gas gun on Dec 1 |
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| Looking out through the window of Le Drugstore near Arc de Triomphe on Nov 25, the day after the first riot |
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| Iconic image of "Liberty" smashed by vandals who entered the Arc de Triomphe on Dec. 1 (AP photo I modified for details) |
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| In the middle of the tear gas cloud on Nov 24 |
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| Burned out branch of Credit Lyonnais on corner of Rue Monceau |
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| The arsonists had gone to work, and black smoke mingled with teargas on Dec 1 |
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| "We'll be back." Dec 2 |
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| And yet, every other day of the week the city was calm. This photo is from Wednesday evening, 5:21 PM |
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| Many of the "casseurs," like soccer hooligans, saw the violence and the confrontations with police as a sport. This guy was shooing a video of himself with police coming up behind: "They're charging!" But they weren't. |
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| The day after Dec 1: This café is right beneath the TV studio where we shoot live shots. I go there all the time. The vandals tried to break into a car dealership next door. If they had set the cars inside on fire, the people in the studio would have been at great risk. |
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| The day after Dec 1, surveying the damage at a burned out lawyer's office at the Étoile. |
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| Add caption |
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| Plywood and graffiti to ward off vandals on the Champs Élysées — seems to have worked. |
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| Burned out Restaurant La Belle Armée (formerly La Grande Armée) near Étoile. |
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| The Day after Dec 1: "Yellow Vests = Antifa" scrawled on Arc de Triomphe |
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| The night after Dec 1: the graffiti has all been removed from the Arc de Triomphe, and Avenue de la Grand Armée is calm. |
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| The Day after Dec 1: Lovers on Avenue Kléber |
