Title: Paris police, protesters clash on ‘yellow vest’ anniversary | France News | Al Jazeera
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Paris police, protesters clash on ‘yellow vest’ anniversary
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Movement loses momentum
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‘Hardcore element’
Macron’s reform agenda

Content: “In the beginning, I found that the movement made a lot of sense, to mobilise from the bottom for better buying power,” Pihel told the Associated Press news agency. “But after, it enlarged its communication to become much greater – it’s just people who want to live. And I felt a real solidarity.” ‘Hardcore element’
Saturday’s protests – which demonstrators dubbed “Act 53” of their weekly gatherings – marked the first serious clashes for months in central Paris between security forces and demonstrators. Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker, reporting from Paris, said those gathering in the capital were the “fringe … hardcore element” within the yellow vest movement. “This isn’t anything like the huge protests that we saw earlier on in the year when many tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Paris and other cities like Bordeaux and Toulouse,” Barker said. “So what’s the reason for the dwindling? To some extent, it has achieved one of its key aims getting the tax on diesel revoked, and [Macron] also coughed up $11m in financial support to low-income earners,” he added. “The movement attracted a whole range of people from the far right, from the far left, and pretty much everyone in between, and because of that somewhat confused political identity, the [movement ] failed to [transform into] … a political movement.” Macron’s reform agenda
The yellow vest movement was one of the toughest challenges to Macron’s presidency before it dwindled in the early summer.