France Faces Reckoning with Public Order Policing After Violent Protest Weekend
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France faces reckoning with public order policing after violent protest weekend
France reeled Monday after a weekend of nationwide unrest sparked by mass protests against the rising cost of living and in support of high school students’ demands over education funding. In the violent clashes that erupted, law enforcement officers and protesters were wounded, public buildings were set ablaze and businesses were looted, raising significant questions about the French police's approach to public order.
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - Anthropologist claims that the government is wrong when it does not lend any political intention to rioters. And recalls that in the suburbs the system of norms promoted by Islamists encourages such acts.
High schoolers and students interviewed by "Le Monde" condemn looting and breakers, but oppose the brutality of the law enforcement forces and assure themselves that they want to pursue a "joyy" and "moving" movement until their demands are heard.
The French authorities are mistaken for writing off riots against ordinary hooligans, and the anthropologist Florence Berjo-Bleckler has spoken, and the pogromists are guided by sharia law and the ideology of "places of the colonizers." Paris reaps the fruits of condoning the Islamists and the alliance of the left radicals.
The weekend violence in France is "a consequence of a policy of repression of youth, as has not been known for 40 years", according to sociologist Sebastian Roché, a specialist in relations between the police and the population, on Monday on the RTS.
After the security failure of the day of October 17, 2026, marked by scenes of historical riots, the debate is relaunched on the definition of the maintenance of order. Between the consideration of the surge of violence, the respect for the freedom to demonstrate and the safety of the younger ones, the balance is fragile.
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