These are scenes to which we are now accustomed in France, if indeed we can be one day. Again last Sunday, traditional demonstration of May 1 at the head of the procession in Paris, to spoil Labor Day, thugs were again at the rendezvous. Ransacked street furniture, windows of banks, businesses targeted, from a McDonald’s restaurant to an organic shop, literally looted too. And the face-to-face, obviously with the police.
How to explain it? Where does this violence come from and are we doomed to see it repeat itself tirelessly at each demonstration? Are the police adopting the right strategy? Is the media coverage good?
Decryption with:
Jean-Francois Amadieuprofessor at theParis I Pantheon-Sorbonne Universitysocial relations specialist
Sylvain Boulouquehistorian, specialist in social movements, author of Le Pen, the people (Atland)