J'veux du soleil

Are we taking this vehicle then?

As you asked, and due to your concerns,

the brake pads and the coolant were changed.

It cost me 350 euros. Now we can set off.

I don't even respect EU regulations.

I don't have a yellow jacket!

There's no yellow jacket in this car! I've never had one.

Sweet France

Beloved country of my youth

A tender carefree cradle

A PLACE IN THE SUN

My village

With its church tower and quiet houses

Where the children my age

Shared my happiness

A hateful crowd...

Dictatorship of the masses.

...attacks representatives and police.

A movement of mass destruction.

Seeking chaos.

A menace for democracy.

A rape of democracy.

Jews, foreigners, homosexuals...

They tick the boxes.

Conspiracy theories, xenophobia.

Homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, the rejection of others.

It is, quite simply, the negation of France.

Sweet France

Beloved country of my youth

A tender carefree cradle

I kept you in my heart

"Heaven for the rich

thrives on hell for the poor”

Victor Hugo

What made me react was that on my Facebook page,

there were lots of people, union members,

leftist sympathizers and so on, who wrote:

"I won't join the march on November 17, it's a fascist event."

I found that catastrophic,

because if you tell people they're fascists,

they become fascists if that's all you offer them.

I just thought: "I'll go see if they're fascists."

And on November 17, I saw they weren't.

They were just people.

A shanty town has sprung up.

Wow, look at that!

They're out of the rain with their parasols.

Hello there. Got any demands for Christmas?

- I got lots. -So have.

My wife makes 1,300 euros a month.

She works in a retirement home.

I do temporary work. My fridge is empty for the whole month.

- My grandma buys me groceries. - He's not the only one.

At 28 years old, I have to ask my grandma for help.

That's really something...

We wouldn't eat without her.

I work when I get called.

My wife works 35 hours a week. We can't enjoy ourselves.

We're young, we never go out with friends,

because however little it'd cost us, we couldn't afford it.

When friends ask us out for a drink,

we can't even do that, we never go bowling or to the movies.

We couldn't even have a proper honeymoon as we couldn't afford it.

Every year, I pay 800 euros

in local taxes.

That's a lot for a small village.

I have to pay in installments.

I pay the electricity in installments too.

I haven't eaten properly for months. I have to pay the bills.

I'm not the only one. I'm speaking in general.

You can come to my house, I can show my fridge

to the camera.

There's some mayonnaise, some ketchup, and a bit of meat.

That's all there is.

Here's another young guy. He's looking for work.

Well, I may have found employment

thanks to these Yellow Jacket gatherings.

For a long time,

things have been going wrong.

We're not represented.

They can make all their fine speeches.

We may not have studied, but we know when they try to trick us.

What's made you angry?

Well, when I started working in 2004,

I was better off than I am now.

Gradually I had to resort to temporary work.

Then even that became harder to find.

Gradually I've seen my standard of living go down.

Now I don't even have an apartment. l live in a trailer.

- What's your job? - I'm in construction.

But I do a bit of everything,

I got a diploma in electronics. I couldn't find work in that field.

I got a vocational qualification in carpentry to learn another trade.

I couldn't find work in carpentry.

I got hired as a bricklayer, then the firm lost business.

I was laid off, with others.

Then I started doing temporary work. Things went downhill.

Life became hell.

You said you've found a job?

Yes, I met

a builder who has his own roofing firm.

I met him while building

this fine castle!

- You helped to build it? - Yes.

l invite everyone to come to our gatherings.

It works better than the employment office!

It's about communicating.

We haven't had a chance to talk in ages.

We're stuck in front of the TV,

we just go home and don't talk.

Here, we get to know each other. It does everyone good.

Making friends with people,

having respect for each other was really missing.

The entire French people needed that.

Beyond the anger,

which was the source of all this,

there's a call for harmony among people.

We'd like to live a happier life by getting along better,

understanding each other better,

and talking to each other.

That's what I've felt over the past 3 weeks.

We'll see in April if it holds together.

People who've always hung their heads hold them high.

That's what's fantastic about this movement.

It's the ability of people who are crushed

and are destined to be put through the grinder

of Europe, of globalization,

who are destined to die out, as it was envisioned

in the great plan for the future

that those in power are preparing for us.

So dignity is making a comeback,

along with the feeling

that it's now or never.

We're sick of the poor!

The poor make no effort to become rich

- You'll catch your death. - Too right.

You can see it's a movement that's made of tough-nuts.

I mean it. They're used to suffering in life.

Because they're suffering.

Their bodies suffer in that cold.

We stay for 2 hours, we're numb with cold, our feet hurt,

our nose is running.

And they stay all day for weeks.

They aren't a bunch of amateurs.

It's a real movement of tough-nuts.

We're sick of the poor!

When they do the lottery They don't even think first

We're sick of the poor!

It's the fault of the poor If poverty exists

We're sick of the poor!

We're sick of the poor! Oh, yeah!

Macron's memorial tour

to mark the centenary

of World War I came here to Albert.

Macron, resign!

Don't touch me!

There were about 10 peaceful Yellow Jackets

waiting for Emmanuel Macron's procession.

They've just been thrown out.

People in wheelchairs have been thrown out.

We're really angry It's Macron's fault

We've got no money It's Macron's fault

We're worried sick It's Macron's fault

Then it went?

The council tax It's Macron's fault

We had a whole list. It ended with:

"We won't be your sheep, King Macron."

So we were here, just singing and we got stopped by the riot police.

We thought: "He could come speak to us."

But no, it was too much to ask.

We really wanted to tell him

about our lives,

how the end of the month is hard

with loans and stuff, and we couldn't stand it anymore.

Do you have consumer loans?

A lot for heating oil.

Every time I had to fill my tank.

You can't save any money,

once the bills are paid.

How much do you pay to fill your tank?

I take out 500-euro loans.

Sometimes 700 when I buy 800 liters. But I never fill the tank.

I do volunteer work. I do the "lotto-quine”.

I help organize it so I can play.

It helps make ends meet when I have a few winning cards.

I can show you, I've got some here.

What's the "lotto-quine"?

I'm on welfare. Once everything is paid, I have 2-300 euros for 4 of us.

They're cards like this you can win.

This one's for 10 euros. They're very common.

These cards are what let me make a living.

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You organize it?

I do volunteer work, I help them prepare the room,

prepare the food for the participants.

Then they let me play for free.

It's thanks to this that I can make a living,

thanks to the winning cards,

and I can go and buy my groceries.