Francia ante el caos
La violencia nihilista golpea los símbolos republicanos y eclipsa las legítimas protestas estudiantiles
France on the brink of chaos, as the scenes of destruction, looting of shops, and assaults on public buildings bear little resemblance to the grievances of the students, but rather a desire to attack symbols of the Republic and destabilize a European democracy. The disastrous day of October 17th will be hard to forget. What began with a peaceful call for better conditions in secondary education and purchasing power quickly turned into acts of unprecedented violence by a minority.
Images like the burning Town Hall of Limoges will remain in the memory as the moment when chaos seized a nation. These events can be blamed on the inaction of the Government towards social and student claims, the paralysis of an Emmanuel Macron who, after a decade in power, is a lame duck with no room for maneuver and detested by a segment of society, or the gridlock within a political class that for decades has delayed reforms to rescue the economy from the abyss and reduce social gaps.
None of these debates should hide the essential truth today, that the protests are legitimate and in many places justified, but violence is never acceptable.
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