Tag: NDiayes

On January 5, 2019, a group of people began breaking down the front door of a ministry building on the Rue de Grenelle in central Paris. Security rushed the government spokesperson at the time, Benjamin Griveaux, out through a side exit soon after the intruders took apart the wooden entrance using a commandeered forklift. Their use of heavy machinery had a touch of symbolism. Among the perpetrators were members of France’s gilets jaunes (“yellow vest”) movement, named for the high-visibility