The rise of violence The rise of violence in the country is an issue the government would like to solve. Indeed, the yellow jackets' protests often finish with violent acts every Saturday. Shop windows are broken, cars are set on fire, banks windows are broken and some scenes showed on TV look like "war scenes". The protesters are not always at the origins of that violence, some violent people called "Black bloc" are among them and they are often responsible of the degradations. Violence has turned a corner (escaladed) when some demonstrators started to attack politicians' private properties such as their houses for example. For example, some people tried to set fire to the house of Richard Ferrand, the current President of the National Assembly. Other protesters covered a front gate of a deputy with yellow vests. Some female politicians belonging to Macron's political party have received threatening letters in which you could read threats to kill or rape them. Some demonstrators also tried to attack symbolic places such as ministries (by ploughing into ministry's gates with a mechanical digger), the Elysée Palace (to which they didn't have access to) or the Arc of Triumph. A new scandal and rise of violence drew the medias' attention when paintings of Simone Veil were tagged : someone drew a swastika on it. Simone Veil is an important figure in France. She was deported in Auschwitz when she was young and survived it. She then became Minister for health where she defended the rights of women to abort legally. She also defended the rights of women in general and has fought antisemitism her whole life. Seeing a swastika on her portraits was shocking to many of us. The portraits painted on letter boxes in Paris were pieces of art from an artist who then cleaned it afterwards in order to remove the nazi symbol. Then, antisemitic words have been tagged on shop windows in different places in France such as "Juden" or swastikas since some days. A tree dedicated to Ilan Halimi was also burnt the same day. Ilan Halimi was a young jewish man tortured to death 13 years ago because he was jewish. Policitians and intellectuals have gathered to denounce the rise of violence and antisemitism in the country.. Those acts increased of 74% in 2018 in France. All these acts are forbidden and punishable by law. In France, nazi symbols or gestures are forbidden and punishable by law. Below are the portraits of Simone Veil tagged in Paris this weekend.