page_title: Yellow vests movement
section_title: Fatalities and injuries
hierarchical_section_title: Yellow vests movement / Fatalities and injuries
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jérôme Rodrigues, un des militants du mouvement des gilets jaunes, éborgné le 26 janvier 2019 place de la Bastille. Il est présent ici le 16 février 2019 boulevard Saint-Michel, pendant la manifestation de l'acte XIV.
context_page_description: The yellow vests movement or yellow jackets movement is a populist, grassroots protest movement for economic justice that began in France in October 2018. After an online petition posted in May had attracted nearly a million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November. The movement was initially motivated by rising fuel prices and a high cost of living; it claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes, especially in rural and peri-urban areas. The protesters have called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum-wage increase, the implementation of Citizens' initiative referendums, among other things. On 29 November 2018, a list of 42 demands was made public and went viral on social media, becoming de facto a structuring basis for the movement, covering a wide range of eclectic topics, mostly related to democracy, social and fiscal justice.
  The movement spans the political spectrum.
context_section_description: As of 22 December 2018, 10 fatalities had been linked to the protests in France.
  By late December, over 1,843 protesters and 1,048 police had been injured. Injuries included tens of facial trauma (jaws or even eyes) caused by police non-lethal weapon ammunition, nicknamed flash-ball despite not being of the type, that are supposed to be fired at the legs, not at the head, and are accurate enough for this purpose.
  As of 14 January 2019, 94 had been reported as seriously injured, including 14 with monocular blindness and one who had to be treated for a brain haemorrhage and left in an artificial coma (from which he emerged on the following Friday).
caption: Gilets jaunes leader Jérôme Rodrigues lost an eye after a police intervention on 26 January 2019[59][206]
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