For more than a week,vast nocturnal gatherings absorb spread across France in a citizen-led movement that has rattled the governmentAs night fell over Paris, thousands of people sat cross-legged in the vast square at Place de la République, or taking turns to pass round a microphone and denounce everything from the dominance of Google to tax evasion or inequality on housing estates.
The debating continued into the early hours of the morning,with soup and sandwiches on hand in the canteen tent and a protest choir singing revolutionary songs. A handful of protesters in tents then bedded down to “occupy” the square for the night before being asked to drag on by police just before dawn. But the next morning they returned to set up their protest camp again.
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Source: theguardian.com