>>3400936it started with fuel taxes, but it's kinda more of a straw that breaks the camel's back.
First, when Macron got elected, a lot of people (me included) didn't really vote FOR him but against his opponent, Marine Le Pen (how she did get here is a long story, basically both the big left and right parties fucked up).
Then he lowered taxes for the richest, and followed with a few measures that made people talk about him as "a president for the rich".
So when he raised taxes on diesel fuel, people felt it was unfair since:
- for years the government has been inciting people to buy cars with diesel engines, and now they all lost a lot of their value
- he could have raised the taxes on jet fuel or boat fuel, since they both are less eco-friendly AND used by the richest part of the country, while a lot of poor people live in the countryside and have to use their car to do basically anything
A lot of people felt like he was disconnected from the reality of their lives and only thinks about the rich and/or those who live in large cities.
So year, although it did start with the fuel, it's way more than that.
And as for the vandals, as long as there are protests, there's gonna be vandals, some of those don't even care about the point of the protest, they just like to smash things.
