Céline, 43, who works in the catering service at a hospital outside Paris, fled from tear-gas on the Champs Elysées with her husband & daughter. ‘The crowd was peaceful, and then they fired at us,’ she said. 1/6 
They were leaving Paris to head back to their toll-booth barricade near Mantes-la-Jolie. ‘We’re not here for tear-gas or violence, but to make ourselves heard’. They had been demonstrating regularly at the motorway toll for 3 weeks. ‘We’ll keep going’
Her husband worked at a Renault factory. He said: ‘you know Renault, where our boss has just been arrested for under-reporting his income by millions of dollars..’ They said there was a feeling of injustice in France 3/6
Céline said: ‘We can’t take it any more, we’re taxed, taxed, taxed until we’ve got nothing. Macron isn’t listening. He thinks power is just about setting riot police against us.’ 4/6
Their daughter was a business student who had been demonstrating against university reform. ‘We have to make ourselves heard, she said 5/6
Céline said: ‘since November 17, I’ve been going to protest at a motorway toll every day at 2pm. I’m not going to stop now. The government needs to review the minimum wage and a build a fairer tax system’ 6/6
