Analysis: Various luminaries of the French establishment have argued that France’s secular, republican ethos are getting corroded by a leftist, “identitarian” streak.
What’s also new is the apparent opening the violence appears to have given France’s far right.
Marine Le Pen, who has spent the better part of two decades bringing a political movement once on the country’s neofascist margins into the mainstream, has capitalized on the moment.
Macron has been taking a more cautious approach, urging a social reckoning where “we are going to build solutions together.” He also pinned the unrest in part on, particular TikTok and Snapchat, for helping rioting youths to mobilize and inspiring copycat antics. Such arguments were met with derision on the left, where some politicians are calling for more direct recognition of the racism inherent in French society, especially among the police.
“If you think people are going to burn down a police station because they read a tweet, that’s a conspiracy-theorist way of seeing things, which ignores the social reasons behind these conditions,” leftist parliamentarian Alexis Corbière
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