Yellow Jacket protesters shout at police near Place de la Concorde in Paris on November 24 | Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images Most French want Yellow Jackets movement to stop: poll Two out of three French believe the movement no longer meets its initial demands.

More than half of France's population want the anti-government Yellow Jackets movement to stop its protests, with many no longer believing that the weekly, and often violent, demonstrations reflect the group's initial demands, according to a new poll.

After around three months of Yellow Jacket protests, 56 percent of those questioned in a survey by pollster Elabe for BFMTV, published Wednesday, think the movement should stop mobilizing people to take to the streets — an increase of 11 percentage points from a month earlier.

While a majority of French (58 percent) still support or sympathize with the movement — down 5 percentage points in a month — two out of three (64 percent) believe the weekly protests no longer reflect the movement's initial demands.

Responding to the protests, President Emmanuel Macron has announced a package of measures to boost pensioners' and workers' purchasing power, and has launched a "grand national debate" where the French can engage and express their views on the country's economic and democratic issues.

While the number of people taking part in weekly Yellow Jacket protests has fallen, there are still many who turn out to demand social reforms such as higher taxes on international firms like Google and Facebook, and a higher minimum wage.

On Wednesday, former French heavyweight boxer and Yellow Jacket activist Christophe Dettinger was sentenced to 30 months in prison, with 18 months suspended. Dettinger was found guilty of assaulting police officers during a protest in Paris earlier this year.

"I wanted to stop an injustice, but ended up creating another," Dettinger told the court on Wednesday.