Freedom convoy breaks thru police blockade, enters Paris | Eastern NC Now

France's Freedom Convoys started from many places and arrived in different groups instead of one large convoy.  That tactic seems to have helped many of them break through police lines and enter Paris.  President Macron had deployed 7,000 extra gendarmes, hundreds of armored cars, barricades, and tow trucks, demanding that the Freedom Convoy stay out of the city.  As the convoy arrived, the police made liberal use of tear gas, which often enveloped uninvolved bystanders as well, including families having lunch at sidewalk cafes.  In some cases, the tear gas seemed to be deliberately fired at the cafes, and children were among those gassed.  Police were also beating protesters.  Individual Parisians were turning out in droves to support the Freedom Convoy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thousands-paris-police-brace-freedom-convoy

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/02/12/standoff-continues-in-canada-while-police-attack-huge-freedom-convoy-in-paris-tear-gas-kids-n521276

Macron faces an election in a few months, and this may be his Waterloo.