France is burning and Macron is asking for a timeout
Things in France have gone from 'student protest' to 'total chaos' in record time, and the government is officially losing its grip.
Students started out upset about crumbling schools and overcrowding—totally valid stuff. But the weekend turned into a full-blown riot. We're talking thousands of arrests, hundreds of shops looted, and a 140-year-old town hall in Limoges burned to the ground.
Emmanuel Macron went on TV looking exhausted, calling the country 'angry and ashamed.' He's trying to draw a line between legitimate student grievances and the mobs currently turning city centers into battlegrounds. It’s not working great, though. Over 1,000 police are injured, and the damage bill is already sitting in the hundreds of millions.
It’s hard to tell who is protesting for education and who is just there to flip cars, but the result is the same: the streets are a total mess.
When the town hall literally collapses from the heat of the riots, the phrase 'teachable moment' takes on a grim new meaning.
Source: UPI
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