Decryption
France: why do we see so much violence in demonstrations?
Audio 7:30 p.m.
A week after Emmanuel Macron's victory in the presidential election, the demonstrators are focusing on the legislative elections.
Paris, 1st 2022. AP - Lewis Joly
By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
1 min
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 1st, 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.
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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-François Amadieu
, professor at the
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
, specialist in social relations
Sylvain Bouloque
, historian, specialist in social movements, author of
Le Pen, le peuple
(Atlande)
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