No thread about French riots?

[Derec]

France: Police and protesters clash in nationwide protests

In Paris and Marseille, police fired tear gas at protesters as violent clashes took place.
AFP reported that dozens of shops were looted in Paris, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux and Lille, where an Apple store was stripped.
The windows of the offices of French broadcasters CNews and Europe 1 in western Paris were also broken by protesters, and AFP journalists reported seeing several parked cars torched.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence in a post on X and warned: "Those who have broken, attacked the prefectures as well as businesses, looted even our town halls, will be prosecuted and punished."
In Lyon, situated in central France, the city's tourism office was set alight with flames and black smoke seen billowing from the building.
In the city of Limoges, the town hall was set alight as unrest broke out. The blaze spread from a wing of the building and eventually reached the roof, where it continued burning as crowds stood watching.
Firefighters were then seen attempting to douse the flames, however, the historic building was largely destroyed by the blaze.

The riots are a continuation of student riots that started weeks ago. These students vandalized schools and even attacked teachers. Their stated goal is more investment in schools and hiring more teachers. Violence should help with both those issues.

Two Teachers Shot Amid French Protests: ‘The Violence Is Intensifying’
Attackers douse teacher in gasoline as student protests rage across France

The far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party are supportive of the rioters and are blaming police for the violence:
France’s Mélenchon doubles down on student protests despite violent clashes
Melenchon accuses Paris police of inciting violence

The France presidential election is scheduled for next April.

 

[TSwizzle]

I did mention the intifada in France in the England caliphate thread.

A funny thing about this is that scoldilocks Greta, a girl who spent years on strike from school is fully on board with the riots.

Storm clouds are gathering in Europe.

 

[thebeave]

Well, you know what they say about protesting. You have to make people feel uncomfortable or they won't get the message and take your cause seriously. Burning down buildings and dousing teachers in gas should do the trick.

 

[TSwizzle]

Protesters broke into Marseille's town hall on Saturday during nationwide demonstrations over rising prices in France, clashing with police as tensions escalated in the southern city. According to AFP journalists at the scene, demonstrators forced their way through the building's doors, overturned a bust of Marianne, a symbol of the French Republic, and damaged furniture inside the entrance hall. Police later intervened to clear the building.

Yahoo News

 

[bilby]

Wait, there are riots in France!?

Must be a day ending in "y".

 

[Derec]

"Fiery, but mostly peaceful"?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

It must be the Muslim immigrants who are responsible and can't assimilate. French citizens have no history of this sort of thing.

 

[bilby]

1883 isn't particularly "historical", at least, not in Europe. The very ordinary house I grew up in was older than that.

Attacking the town hall, however, is very much an historical tradition.

On 4 April 1871, inspired by the establishment of the Paris Commune, a crowd of revolutionary guardsmen stormed both the town hall and the prefecture, and demanded the establishment of a similar commune in Limoges. In the ensuing melee, shots were fired and Colonel Auguste Billett of the French Army was mortally wounded, although the French Army eventually regained control.

(Wikipedia)

Of course, that was the previous town hall. And the town hall before that was the "historical" town hall, built in circa 1487.

Anything less than half a millennium old in Europe is newfangled modern rubbish.

 

[scombrid]

No thread about Turhan Mildon and Aliña Habba either.

 

[Politesse]

The riots in Marseille and Paris this weekend are mainly about unrest due to inflation and cost of living, same thing that has had France on a tightrope for almost a decade now. I'm sure the high school protests didn't calm the population down any, but the present rioting isn't about the earlier situation at the schools. France already had enormous class tensions brewing, and a history of rather direct forms of democracy.