France Needs Tranquility, Restoration Of Order After 'Yellow Vest' Rallies - Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Brussels on Friday expressed his position regarding new rallies of the so-called yellow vest activists, saying that the country now needs tranquility and restoration of order.

PARIS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th December, 2018) French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference in Brussels on Friday expressed his position regarding new rallies of the so-called yellow vest activists, saying that the country now needs tranquility and restoration of order.

Earlier this week, amid a deadly shooting in Strasbourg, French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux called on the "yellow vest" activists to show wisdom and cancel a demonstration on December 15.

"I think that today our country needs tranquility and order, needs restoration of normal activity," Macron told reporters when asked whether he planned to call on the protest movement's participants to avoid taking part in Saturday's rally.

Also on Friday, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner called on the activists to "show consciousness" at the protests, warning of the continuing threat of terrorist attacks.

The wave of the so-called yellow vest protesters named after the obligatory attribute of French drivers started in France in mid-November. The French government has scrapped its planned hike in diesel taxes that sparked the protests, but the yellow vests have since morphed into a broader movement against government policies and rising living costs.