The bottom line:
A little more fashionable than those yellow vests, I’ll grant you that.
The Red Scarves were created in opposition to the Yellow Vests. It started November 26th on social media and registered on December 8th as a legal associative entity. It has 20,000 members.
Their mission” to “defend the republic”.
They want order, they support Macron and the EU, and they claim to be apolitical.
They “support democracy”, a against “fake news” (the government was working on “anti-fake-news legislation” (aka against the freedom of the press and have already booted RT out of the Elysee press briefings because they are not real journalists!), call for an end to hatred, to the disruptions and the violence (!) caused by the Gilets Jaunes and against excessive air time given to Gilets Jaunes on the MSM TV channels.
The fashionistas against the deplorables.
The civilized people against the savages.
The people with jobs against the losers.
“Les gens qui réussissent” (people who succeed) against “les gens qui ne sont rien”(people who are nothing), from a quote by Macron: “Une gare, c'est un lieu où l'on croise les gens qui réussissent et les gens qui ne sont rien.” Translation: “A train station is a place where you walk past people who succeed and people who ARE (not, DO nothing, but ARE nothing - Gees, I wonder why Macon’s popularity rating is so low?) nothing”
Unlike the Gilets Jaunes which is an amorphous movement with no leader and no official representatives, but only ad hoc spokespeople who stress that they do NOT represent the movement but are merely stating their own views and opinions, the Foulards Rouges are a centralized movement with a president, a secretary and moderator, optional membership dues etc.
This is their website: https://www.foulardsrouges.org
They marched in the streets of Paris on Sunday 27th January. This “Republican March for Liberties’” was originally planned to be the “republican March in Support of Macron”. A little hmm, too obvious for a supposedly apolitical movement? Among them, LREM (Macron’s party) representatives. According to official figures, about 10,000 were marching (for 4000 Gilets Jaunes in Paris according to the Interior minister).
Police violence?
What? Where?
Apart for a few unpleasant exchanges with some Gilets Jaunes, it was a perfectly peaceful march with no tear gas grenades and no rubber bullets, and the vats of Kool-Aid were barely out of sight.
Behold the self-righteous! Behold the Macronistas!
Here come the Foulards Rouges!
