French protester grabs an active stun grenade, says goodbye to his hand

Tim Pearce, DCNF

Many excesses occurred on the sidelines of the Yellow Wings demonstration, initially organized on the Champs Elysees: barricades, cars on fire and violent clashes took place on Boulevard Haussman, Rue de Courcelles and Place Saint-Laurent. Augustine. Demonstration of Yellow Vests in Paris on the Champs Elysees for their Act IV. The police system has been completely rehabilitatedPHOTOGRAPH BY Le Pictorium / Barcroft Images (Photo credit should read CHLOE SHARROCK / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) — (CHLOE SHARROCK / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

A French protester lost his hand after reportedly attempting to throw an active stun grenade back at police, a French news outlet reported, according to The Daily Mail.

A graphic video of a man clutching his bloody arm surfaced Saturday as the “yellow vest” protests continued into a fourth straight weekend. The protests, named after the yellow traffic vests worn by the protesters, began in mid-November after French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a new gas tax hike to lower emission and combat climate change.

WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT. WATCH:

Is not #Venezuela or #Russia #French police attacked an protesters, and wound severely a person, his hand has disappeared. the police blow up his hand#GiletsJaunes pic.twitter.com/u7Wt8u7T3g

— Leonardo Avila (@Leo58883) December 9, 2018

The man reportedly tried to throw back an active police stun grenade, but the grenade went off before he could release it.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1071542809285533698

The Daily Caller News Foundation could not independently verify how the man lost his hand during the riot.

Roughly one in every five French citizens currently approve of the job Macron is doing. Recent polls have pegged his approval rating between 18 and 23 percent, lower than his socialist predecessor Francois Hollande. Macron has scrapped the gas tax proposal that ignited the protests Dec. 5.

French support for the yellow vest movement is much higher, around 73 percent, according to an Elabe poll conducted during the protests, the movement itself is composed of people across the political spectrum calling for lower taxes, larger social programs and Macron’s resignation.

The French government ratcheted up security over the weekend because of the protests. Armored vehicles patrolled the streets of Paris for the first time since World War II Saturday. Roughly 1,300 people were arrested and 135 people were injured, including 17 police officers.

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