In this instance, it appears to be a fake movement that, for publicity reasons, has decided to mimic the appearance of a legitimate movement France that is, philosophically, its exact opposite.
On Saturday migrants angry at Italy’s tough new anti-migrant law which makes it easier to expel new arrivals, waved flags and wore yellow vests.
The new anti-immigration law would “only increase the number of people without papers in Italy and force people underground”, one black protester from the Ivory Coast told AFP.
Another complained: “We are still building more walls, more barriers,” which is causing more “difficulties”. Aside from such vague statements, the protester could not give any specific examples.
A decree put forward by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant League, was adopted by parliament last month to limit residence permits. Salvini has since surged in popularity, with opinion polls putting his party on 30 percent, up from the 17 percent it won during the election.
The decree also ends two-year “humanitarian protection” residency permits that some 25 percent of asylum seekers had obtained last year.
Residency permits will now be awarded under much stricter conditions such as a one-year “special protection” status or a six-month “natural disaster in country of origin” status.
Immigration has actually been fuelling the true Yellow Vest movement across Western Europe, because ordinary citizens feel ignored and condescended to by their political, business, academic, and media elites.
The majority of these citizens believe their leaders are gradually surrendering sovereignty to the EU, while their countries have been flooded with Muslim immigrants who pose a major cultural challenge.
This is turn has resulted in massive social unrest, since it represents a devastating economic burden to ordinary people.
Earlier this month, the Dutch daily Het Parool noted how Dutch Yellow Vest protesters are opposed to the European Union, to immigration and to current efforts to put an end to Zwarte Piet – an age-old Dutch Christmas tradition of blackface, now viewed by globalists as “racist”.
Over the last month, several major French cities, such as Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Lyon, as well as in cities in the Low Countries, including Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Nijmegen and Maastricht, saw anti-EU and anti-immigration Yellow Vest protests.
Last weekend, in London, as the tension, confusion, and frustration surrounding Brexit have intensified and rumours a second referendum increased, yellow-vested protesters, most of them supporters of Brexit, blocked major bridges and shut down streets in the city center.
In Portugal, the national protest already had more than 40 000 people expressing interest and 14 000 were guaranteed to protest, but Facebook took down the Yellow Vest site.
The page calling for a demonstration was taken down from the social network at the authority’s request, says Anabela Andry, a Yellow Vest. “The page was removed by Facebook at the authority’s request,” she said.
Asked how she knew the authorities had asked Facebook to close down the page, Andry said “it was the page / event management that received the message.”