This weekend saw the 23rd consecutive week of the yellow vests protests in Paris, demonstrating against the social inequality in France.
Five days after the fire that partially destroyed the Notre-Dame Cathedral, protesters point to the £770m in donations that have poured in from some of the country's wealthiest while many in France struggle to make ends meet while appearing less willing to donate such sums to the poor.
A spokesperson for the yellow vest movement, Ingrid Levavasseur, expressed her frustration at the astronomical sums donated in five days to the already immensely rich Catholic Church while their protest has received nothing but arrests and tear gas for fighting for the poorest in society over the past five months.
One clever placards carried during Saturday's protest summed things up with: 'Victor Hugo thanks all the generous donors for the Notre-Dame, and proposes that you do the same for Les Miserables'.
When a burnt out Church receives hundreds of millions in less than a week while the poorest are resorting to protesting in the street for months and receive nothing, something has gone horribly wrong with society.
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