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"To the guillotine!"

Yellow vests roar in Aachen anger on Macron and Merkel addition

>Tuesday, 22/01/2019, 13:15

"Louis XIV! On the guillotine, "they yell at their president. There are not many. One hundred men and women, perhaps, who in spite of the cold weathered off their yellow camisole and traveled to Aachen to shout out their anger. 16 pages of paper that will go down in history as "Aachen Treaties" are the occasion.

The displeasure of the gathering is sometimes directed against supposed alienation, sometimes against a Europe of large corporations. On their banners stands "Stop brown coal", "Railway expansion instead of Eurofighter" or "We are the people".

<Snipers on the rooftops

How disparate the yellow people, gathered here under the supervision of snipers on the rooftops, helicopters on the clear sky of Aachen and hundreds of police , is quickly becoming clear. The demo participants with the Verdi sticker on the yellow vest will soon stand aside from those who wave their German flags.

Some of them agree with the anthem, the others answer with "Never Again Germany" -challenges. European advocates distribute blue balloons to the same clientele who also pocket AfD flyers. Agree is the yellow swarm of the bitter only if one believes to have spotted the French President and the German Chancellor on the Town Hall stairs. A unanimous "Merkelon démission" unfolds. The German counterpart "Merkel must go" follows on the foot.

<Yellow vests are shining, but they are not warming

Emmanuel Macron will hardly hear it. On a large scale, the square was closed in front of the traditional Aachen city hall. While the Europa-Freunde stand in the inner circle of the barrier, the yellow vests stay out. Some revolt about identity checks, others say the rifles on the rooftops are aimed at them. The forces are once berated as "bastard", but do not intervene.

The predominantly German demonstrators seem routine. Many of them do not go out on the streets for the first time against the hated European agreement. Maybe it will also paralyze the cold. Yellow vests are shining, but they are not warming. White haze rises from their mouths. Some blow the hot breath into their stiff fists.

<"Give Macron the rest"

While the heads of states operate symbolic politics in the emperor's insignia from the orb of the empire to the sword of Charlemagne, the yellow vests drive very concrete fears. Macron betrays France, complains a Frenchman who claims to have driven all night from Grenoble in the south of France to follow his president as a yellow conscience to Germany. Macron's move "En marche" implodes. The poll numbers are catastrophic. Now he wants to give him the rest, says the Frenchman with the red whistle around his neck.

Whether he really knows what is in the contract, a passerby wants to know from him. But the Frenchman does not want to know anything about deepening economic cooperation, town twinning and a foreign policy that has been taken over, from exporting arms to a possible joint seat on the UN Security Council. He is here on a vendetta course.

A cyclist who wants nothing else to notice with her yellow vest but on the road, is surprised by the accumulation on the Town Hall Square. She walks around the barrier slowly and shakes her head.

https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/unterzeichnung-der-aachener-vertraege-wuetende-proteste-begleiten-unterzeichnung-der-aachener-vertraege_id_10218162.html