The power of the Yellow Vests | VPRO Documentary
74Ironically the yellow vest was made mandatory by Nicholas Sarkozy, a president who has meant very little to the lower social classes. Every Frenchman with a car must have a yellow vest in the trunk for safety reasons. Now the yellow vests are making disgruntled French people visible.
Revolutionary Amandine Vidal therefore thought Sarkozy was a visionary. For the rest, his legacy may go into the trash, of course. For the young Vidal, the yellow shirts have come to play an important role in her life. She has found special comrades in the movement. She especially admires the people who carry the movement.
Her comrade Mélanie N'Goye Gaham, for example. N'Goye Gaham is the unofficial leader of the yellow shirts in Amiens. N'Goye Gaham will never forget that in one of the demonstrations she was knocked unconscious by ME officers and that her comrades patched her up again.
N'Goye Gaham sees in the yellow shirts a first step towards a world where money isn't more important than people. A different future must be possible, according to her. Even if you have to fight to get it.
Although the ferocity of the demonstrations is nowhere near what it was at the end of 2018, even now, in coronation times, the yellow hisses are demonstrating.
So, because of the difficult conditions, the yellow shirts have shrunk in numbers. But are they on the decline? Or will the invisible ones suddenly become visible again soon? Who will say? Because you don't plan a revolution. A revolution erupts.
This is an episode of 'In Europe, history caught in the act' with Geert Mak by Stefanie de Brouwer and Roel van Broekhoven.
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