France - civil war has broken out

[Anonymous]

There have been three straight nights of escalating rioting in France since the shooting death of a teen during a traffic stop.

The Guardian summarizes and is live blogging the event: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/30/france-riots-violence-looting-emmanuel-macron-paris-marseill-nanterre-nahele-lille-latest-updates?filterKeyEvents=false

What puts this into civil war territory is the that the national police unions put out an official press release calling the rioters "savage hordes" and threating to go into "resistance."

Left leaning politicians have condemned the call for civil war:
"Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the former presidential candidate for the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party, said police unions “calling for civil war should learn to keep quiet. We’ve seen the fatal behaviour this kind of talk leads to. Politics needs to regain its grip on the police”.

The French Green party leader Marine Tondelier said:

Can we finally say that we have a structural problem in the police? This text is an appeal for civil war."

Some video to get the feel of the situation:

[Anonymous]

Maybe rioters need to stop rioting?

[Anonymous]

The French need to bring back the Committee of Public Safety. That would solve their problems.

[Anonymous]

No, OP, violent protests and riots are not civil war.

[Anonymous]

This is civil unrest, not civil war.

We should know the difference, as should France.

[jsteele]

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