France has been under martial law long before covid. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/will-frances-state-of-emergency-become-permanent

France has been under martial law long before covid. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/will-frances-state-of-emergency-become-permanent/532848/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/07/wi... The state of emergency which enabled the martial law has never gone away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle Yellow vests aka protests against the government have been banned before covid even happened. Did the yellow vests just give up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement#21_September:_%22Act_XLV%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement#21_Septe... Interesting how wiki just stopped covering the yellow vests. https://apnews.com/article/bf7bc0dc7c2f49bb86ebf1e2595418fc https://apnews.com/article/bf7bc0dc7c2f49bb86ebf1e2595418fc https://www.newsbreak.com/tennessee/paris/news/2057961521309/paris-police-bans-planned-weekend-yellow-vests-protest https://www.newsbreak.com/tennessee/paris/news/2057961521309... The reason wiki stopped recording about the yellow vests is because the martial law and banning of protests. They arrested the yellow vest folks. The entire leadership have been imprisoned. If you look back as well. Sarkozy barely won. Hollande barely won. Then after martial law had been declared and general freedoms of the French people have been removed Macron won convincingly? Dominated his opponent. Then when covid came around he 100% banned protests. They have issued 500,000+ tickets for "non-essential movement outside" and it's currently not recorded how many arrests have occurred under the name of covid 19. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/12/clashes-and-arrests-as-yellow-vest-protests-return-in-france/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/12/clashes-and-arrest... The movement is dead because France's martial law has banned protests. This amnesty article doesn't go far enough. Coverage of France's martial law that has been ongoing for 5+ years and practical banning of basic human rights is quite scant.