爲避免受法國影響 埃及限售黃色反光背心

Egyptian authorities restricted the sale of yellow reflective vests amid fears opponents might attempt to copy French gilets jaunes protesters.

因擔心反對者可能試圖效仿法國的“黃背心”抗議者，埃及當局已限制出售黃色反光背心。

Security officials and retailers said industrial safety equipment dealers have been instructed not to sell yellow vests to walk-in buyers and to restrict business to wholesale to verified companies, but only after securing police permission. Offenders would be punished.

安全官員和零售商表示，工業安全設備經銷商已收到通知，不得向未預約的買家出售黃背心，業務範圍限定爲向經過驗證的企業批發，但需提前得到警方批准。違規者將受到處罰。

Six retailers in a Cairo downtown area said they were no longer selling yellow vests. Two declined to sell them, giving no explanation, but the remaining four said they were told not to by police.

開羅市中心的六家零售商表示，他們不再銷售黃色背心。其中兩家雖然明確表示拒絕出售，但沒有給出任何解釋，但其餘四家則稱是警方讓他們不要出售。

"They seem not to want anyone to do what they are doing in France," said one retailer.

一家零售商表示：“他們似乎不希望任何人做在法國正在做的事情。”

"The police came here a few days back and told us to stop selling them. When we asked why, they said they were acting on instructions," said another.

另外一家零售商稱：“幾天前警察來過這裏，告訴我們不要再賣了。當我們問他們爲什麼時，他們說他們是按照指示行事的。”

The yellow vests worn by French protesters have become the symbol of the wave of demonstrations that began in November against a rise in fuel taxes but mushroomed to include a range of demands, including the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.

法國抗議者所穿的黃色背心已成爲11月開始的抗議浪潮的象徵，這波抗議浪潮最初是爲了反對燃油稅上調，但迅速演變成表達要求總統馬克龍辭職等衆多訴求的活動。