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by paganel 2184 days ago
Nothing. Macron's police forces were as bad and brutal with the yellow vests movement as the Turkish police was with the Gezi Park protests back in 2013, if anything some Western European leaders are taking notes. To say nothing about the very recent meeting between Macron and Putin which ended on a very congratulatory note from both sides.

As for Germany they have been in bed with Russia for a long time, and Austria is basically one of the main conduits for laundering money coming from "bad" Russian people (who steal from the majority of the Russian population).