mo4ch:>‘Continue the fight’: French boxer who punched police officer urges Yellow Vests to keep going | Mo4ch News

The former boxer who repeatedly punched an officer during a Yellow Vest protest in Paris and was later detained, has defended his actions online. In a video posted on social media, he calls himself a “normal citizen.”The video was uploaded by Gaelle Galou, who identified herself as boxer Christophe Dettinger’s sister-in-law and said that he was “not a criminal,” but “just a yellow vest trying to defend his country for the future of his children!” Dettinger was identified by police after footage of him pummeling the officer went viral over the weekend.In Galou’s video, Dettinger, who is a former light heavyweight champion, declares himself a Yellow Vest and says that he has “the anger of the people within” him. The Yellow Vest protests began in November 2018, initially against a proposed fuel tax hike, later growing into a wider movement against the economic policies of President Emmanuel Macron’s government.Explaining his brawl with the police officer, Dettinger said he had previously…