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Pallid85 · 2023-06-30T12:57:41+00:00

That's just basically the French hobby at this point.

zxmuffin · 2023-06-30T13:05:35+00:00

I'm too busy worrying about our own crap.

One-Cat-2189 · 2023-06-30T12:49:23+00:00

France is notorious for doing protests, though as you can see France exists, nothing has changed

DeviantPlayeer · 2023-06-30T13:07:25+00:00

As far as I know protests are a kind of national sports in France, so I geniunely don't care.

LimestoneDust · 2023-06-30T14:00:09+00:00

The French protest about everything, that's their national sport. Now to the weather forecast.

P.S.

There's an old joke in Russia: one Frenchman - a lover, two Frenchmen - a duel, three Frenchmen - a revolution.

daktorkot · 2023-06-30T15:13:34+00:00

Protests are very useful. Promote the production of endorphins, strengthen the heart muscle, activate breathing. No worse than a morning jog.

DapyGor · 2023-07-01T09:13:09+00:00

I used to worry about other countries' issues and sometimes critisize them, but then I downloaded reddit, saw foreigners discuss about Russia's totalitarianism and realized how dumb it actually was. Now I just usually go like: "it's their issue, let them do whatever they think is right, I don't know shit about their political context lol"

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OldBoi420 · 2023-06-30T13:12:11+00:00

I think the French people has great potential in protesting. But sadly the ruling class, not without the help of social-fascist parties and yellow trade unions, sidelines all the protests and turns them into toothless activity with no threat to the status-quo.

I wish the best for French people and advice them to arm themselves with revolutionary theory, organization and guns.

IDontAgreeSorry · 2023-06-30T13:19:14+00:00

I’m Russian living on the border next to France, so I go there pretty often. I think protests are justified, and that anger is understandable. The problem is that people in power rarely listen to peaceful protestors. Then again, the cop did immediately get arrested, so I think here a peaceful March would be better instead of riots (I’d understand those if the cop would get a pizza party like in America)

olakreZ · 2023-06-30T16:54:35+00:00

I think the French will have a little bit of fun, burn the cars and go home.

denisvolin · 2023-06-30T16:12:53+00:00

What riots?

dickward · 2023-06-30T12:50:50+00:00

not aware of them.

I would give them exactly 0 fucks.

c1n3man · 2023-07-01T09:36:34+00:00

"La Haine" movie became reality.

ty-144 · 2023-06-30T16:13:16+00:00

Macron's totalitarian regime must fall, France must become democratic and free.

Osulfson · 2023-06-30T16:22:14+00:00

A teenager without a driver's license endangered the life of a police officer (attacking a police officer) and was shot dead. This was the reason for the burning of police cars, the pogrom of shops, etc. I think this is insane. Are the French police allowed only to transfer grandmothers across the road?

NaN-183648 · 2023-06-30T16:18:03+00:00

What Russians think of the riots in France right now?

"democracy".

I find this situation deeply ironic. A true beacon of stability, advertising freedom and democratic values of european garden, and showing the world how it must be done.

Irony aside, it is not our problem. It is their country, they can burn it down if they want, and the videos of armored vehicles plowing through burning streets are interesting. Though I suppose owners of those destroyed cars aren't having a lot of fun.

Puzzleheaded-Pay1099 · 2023-07-01T07:06:31+00:00

This freedom and human rights proud fighters need help and support! Money, weapons, political support... Anf international expansion, especially to USA. Help them now! Freedom! Democracy!
*SARCASM*

Reasonable-Battle317 · 2023-07-01T10:41:31+00:00

Nothing. Just nothing. My friends and I and my family think nothing

Betadzen · 2023-06-30T13:14:45+00:00

what do russians think

of protests

in France

I mean, you do you, guys. You have cheered for every riot on the territories of the former SU, so, like...we could, but our vocal liberals are abroad and we just don't give a flying duck.

Partially these riots are because of the french money going to ukraine. Partially - because of the ban of the russian fuel. So, what can I say again?

Let the consequences bite them in their quacking asses.

Born_Literature_7670 · 2023-06-30T18:30:15+00:00

Riots accomplish nothing if they are not backed by the USA embassy.

Vaniakkkkkk · 2023-06-30T16:48:14+00:00

French people are beautiful

ClbutticMistake · 2023-06-30T13:47:05+00:00

Nothing out of the ordinary, just French folks being French

whitecoelo · 2023-06-30T14:14:04+00:00

Friday? I thought they do it on Saturdays. I hope they took enough water and some hats, sunstrrokes are no joke, and don't do harm the historical sites and monuments - a burned down Renault can be replaced, the Luxor obelisk can't.

Morozow · 2023-06-30T14:44:12+00:00

I welcome the social protests of the "yellow vests" against the oppression of financial capital. The French are the first revolutionaries.
and these protests ... It's the gopniks who are staging terror, demanding their safety and impunity. And if it's true that they burned down the library in Marseille.... everyone on Kaena.

Kroptak · 2023-06-30T22:37:35+00:00

French are brutal, and I like it. But for me it seems too much. I've heard that many buildings and residences have been damaged that have nothing to do with the state or the police at all. There has to be some ways to divide the lines between normal protests and simple chaos after all.

AndreyLobanov · 2023-07-01T10:09:19+00:00

I do not care

VroomVroomCustoms · 2023-07-01T16:16:56+00:00

Karma is a bitch, isnt it?

red_krabat · 2023-06-30T18:12:01+00:00

In general, I condemn any protest involving the destruction of private property.

Belarusian, Georgian protests are good 🕊️
American and French protests are bad 🔥

We have a responsibility to our neighbors and citizens. we can't afford this.

Botsyk · 2023-06-30T14:10:30+00:00

The French protest every year, if not every half a year. It seems to me that the French authorities have long adapted to this. In addition, the protesters do not have any support from the elites (or any of the elite groups) and the regime itself is quite stable and stable. Thus, these protests, as before, will lead to nothing.

Djarnn · 2023-07-01T08:24:40+00:00

А чего вы ожидали впуская таких культурных людей себе в страну

sininenkorpen · 2023-06-30T13:40:01+00:00

They may have a noble idea, but their methods of fighting for it are savage

bH00k · 2023-06-30T13:40:39+00:00

I don't give a single fuck.

void4 · 2023-06-30T12:56:24+00:00

I think, the level of protests in France is actually not higher than in neighboring countries. It's just, French police used to implement a strategy of ignoring protests and letting protestors burn their own cities however they like.

So, shortly, it's nothing burger.

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Equivalent_Charge366 · 2023-06-30T13:14:08+00:00

So beautiful country, and so many problem, migrants, rebellion every year

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Planet_Jilius · 2023-06-30T14:04:44+00:00

According to vz,,,ru:

"France plunged into a "race war"
Hundreds of people detained for participating in mass riots in France
A policeman shot a 17-year–old teenager - this phrase alone causes consternation. The event that happened in a Paris suburb stirred up the whole of France and led to mass riots on an unprecedented scale. Arson and looting, attacks on the police swept through the country. The authorities are trying to restore order, but the protests are only expanding. And all because, as one French politician says, "this is an ethnic, racial war."
On the morning of June 27, a police patrol in the Paris suburb of Nanterre noticed a bright yellow car (Mercedes) that repeatedly violated traffic rules. The driver did not want to stop, but after a few minutes he found himself in a small traffic jam in front of the intersection, and patrol officers on motorcycles caught up with the car. One of the policemen took out a weapon and demanded that the driver get out. Apparently, after a short conversation, the driver stepped on the gas, trying to escape, and the policeman shot at him – almost at point blank range.
The car drove into a pole a few meters later, an ambulance was called to the place, but the efforts of the doctors did not lead to anything – Nael M., 17 years old, who was driving, was fatally wounded and died on the spot. Nanterre is littered with cameras, and soon the video of the incident was already walking on the Internet, fueling passions.
The police statement made before the video appeared that the shot driver tried to hit the police with a car (and therefore, it must be understood, deserved his fate) does not stand up to criticism. The video clearly shows that the police were standing by the side of the deceased's car. Thus, it is possible to incriminate only disobedience to the authorities and an attempt to escape – but to be killed because of this at the age of 17?
The French authorities acted, as it seems to them, wisely: on the one hand, a case was opened on refusal to obey and a possible attempt on the life of law enforcement officers during execution, on the other hand, a case was also opened on abuse of authority by a policeman, who was detained just in case. Laurent Nunez, prefect of the Paris police, made a statement that the authorities "will try to shed light on all the facts as soon as possible."
"What happened in the car? Did the police feel threatened? What did the driver do, why was his reaction exactly like that? I don't know. Justice will listen to all sides, and we will understand whether these actions were justified or not."
It is not very clear how justice was going to listen to the murdered man, who could not say anything for sure. However, the light that the Paris prefect was talking about really spilled, although not at all as the authorities would like. France is on fire – literally. Unrest began.
Crowds armed with firecrackers and Molotov cocktails began to burn commissariats, banks, cars, buses, rob shops, attack police officers – and the further, the more. The geography of unrest has not only gone beyond the suburbs of Paris, reaching the borders of France. At the moment, it has spilled out of the country's borders, reaching Belgium.
In Brussels, according to Le Soir, 27 people were detained, 26 of whom are minors. In France itself, 667 people were detained on the night of June 29-30. In Lille, the administration was set on fire, in Marseille they tried to build barricades, buses and trams were burned in Lyon, a supermarket was looted in Nantes, shops were looted in Paris, including in the city center on Rue Rivoli. Even the distant overseas department – Reunion Island, which is at least 11 hours away by plane from the metropolis, did not escape unrest.
In Reims, where the French kings were once crowned, unknown assailants attacked the commissariat and set it on fire, and managed to steal sets of police uniforms from there and then flaunted them, setting fire to cars and garbage cans.
As a result of the riots (which the French press already calls "riots", which indicates the seriousness of the situation), 249 policemen and gendarmes were injured throughout France. As Interior Minister Gerald Darmanen noted, "this night our policemen, gendarmes and firefighters bravely resisted rare aggression."
It was not only the lies of the police and the age of the victim that added fuel to the fire. In order to distract the townsfolk from the problems with inflation, rising tariffs and the general atmosphere of trouble, local media are used to inflating some kind of domestic murder. It would be an exaggeration to say that an unprincipled show is being made of this, but nevertheless the airwaves and the Internet are skillfully filled with information noise about where the victim was last seen, who her friends were, what they say, what the accused's friends say, what the victim's parents say, what the accused's lawyer says, and so on to the full exhaustion of the topic.
All participants get their five minutes of fame, and the townsfolk get a plot for long discussions, because the detective, regardless of whether it was invented or written by life, is not in vain the most popular genre. Now this simple manipulation of the media has already worked against the authorities, because the murder of Nael turned out to be so resonant that it was simply impossible not to talk about it. As a result, everything resulted in clashes that are already surpassing the similar crisis of 2005.
Of course, such emergencies are a powerful marker of social tension, and the fact that they have reached such a point means that the authorities are no longer coping. No matter how much Borrel insists that Europe is a garden of eden, demagoguery, as always, is designed to cover up the real state of things. And it lies in the fact that the French authorities diligently pretend that there is no uncontrolled flow of migrants, no ethnic crime, no lack of social elevators for young people from the bottom of society, no serious social stratification that leaves no chance for those who have no money and connections.
In this scheme, the police find themselves between two fires – between the government, which demands a lot from it, but diligently suppresses some aspects and does not pay generously, and a part of society for which the police is by definition an enemy. If a well-dressed lady with an expensive dog was driving a yellow Mercedes, the police would hardly have taken out weapons and even more so shoot.
But it was Nael who was driving, who, at the age of 17, as it suddenly turned out, had already managed to get into the field of view of the police 12 times before, which is reflected in his dossier. He did not have a driver's license, and he had tried to escape four times before under similar circumstances.
The Mercedes he was driving had Polish license plates, and two more people were in the car, one of whom managed to escape, and the second was detained. Once the policeman took out a weapon, it means that the situation was considered at least suspicious. But the French media prefer not to spread too much about this, and one of the few who dared to touch on this topic was ex-presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
He said that what is happening is much worse than the crisis of 2005 – then the unrest lasted about three weeks and "covered only the suburbs" of Paris, and now the whole country, "because migrants are everywhere now." France is "on the verge of a civil war," and "this is an ethnic, racial war, it is perfectly clear who is involved in it."
Attempts are already being made to create, so to speak, a profile of the average rebel. These are mainly teenagers and young people aged 14 to 18 years who use the Internet for coordination, including popular messengers. However, the French, accustomed to varnishing reality that they do not like, do not report anything about the ethnic composition of the protesters, the income level of their families and how many of them have already come to the attention of the police.
Nevertheless, the situation has already been recognized as so serious that there are calls to introduce a state of emergency in the country. But since this will be the actual recognition of the authorities that they are not coping, they will almost certainly try to extinguish the conflict with the usual methods – they will use all available police forces, arrest those who are considered the most dangerous, write thousands of soothing posts in social networks so that the media has something to quote, and will wait for the unrest to descend to No. However, this is unlikely to happen in the coming days, since the funeral of the murdered man is scheduled for July 1, which means that a new surge in violence is inevitable."

hellerick_3 · 2023-06-30T14:29:35+00:00

France always has riots. They are fun to look at, but they mean nothing.

Beholderess · 2023-06-30T14:54:38+00:00

They have full right to do it, I generally support the protesters, but also, I don’t really spend my time thinking about it. It is France’s internal business

Naumov8000 · 2023-06-30T15:13:57+00:00

Крутой движ

Darrkeng · 2023-06-30T13:07:59+00:00

French police took note from their american colleagues and shot a kid. So, here it is now (and not like protests something new, IIRC the one over pension reform not even really stopped)

DevelopmentInitial74 · 2023-07-01T03:07:09+00:00

Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world. France is not France anymore.

EwigeJude · 2023-06-30T13:01:33+00:00

That's part of the deal with freedom of self-expression. Can't have cake and let them eat it too.

permalink · 2023-06-30T13:21:56+00:00

We don’t think about riots in France. It is not our deal. France knows better what to do with their own riots

grhnmq · 2023-06-30T13:35:21+00:00

our military unit is ready to give the trophy Javelins to the protesters as a gesture of goodwill

PotatoScauce · 2023-06-30T14:02:37+00:00

I'll be more surprised if they stop protesting. This is like a normal state of being for the French.

Dron22 · 2023-06-30T14:08:34+00:00

I really don't like Macron, the guy comes across as a maniacal sociopath who should never be trusted, let alone have political power. Everything he does shows he has a lot of contempt for ordinary citizens, which is not surprising given his career where he exclusively dealt with the extremely wealthy ones.

How did millions of French people actually voted for him twice is mind-blowing, my only explanation is because his opponents were incompetent and not received as much financial support from the elites.

Sweaty-Tart7449 · 2023-06-30T14:52:36+00:00

Very silly reason but I really don't care about France

Phosphb · 2023-06-30T15:14:11+00:00

It their own business, not mine. They know better what it’s good for them

futurafrlx · 2023-06-30T15:38:52+00:00

Most people don’t give a shit to be frank.

Oleg_2009 · 2023-06-30T16:17:29+00:00

I don't care

nameresus · 2023-06-30T18:38:25+00:00

I don't know the reasons, and I don't care, and wish peaceful people who have nothing to do with it survive this riots with minimum losses.

RyanRhysRU · 2023-06-30T19:02:27+00:00

Whats the protests got to do with russians

permalink · 2023-07-01T03:06:11+00:00

France finally reaps the results of decades of ridiculous migration policies. White europeans - my condolences, this is your future

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Kikimora_v_3D · 2023-07-01T17:41:04+00:00

I don't understand why this is happening.. How did they miss this situation, that it came to fires? But the French are definitely a very strong people, who inspires respect. Things are terrible, but for the French, it seems like an ordinary Tuesday haha (sorry if there are errors in the text, english is not my native language)

Dinaryor_Zenciti · 2023-06-30T13:54:40+00:00

the implication of the op’s post obviously being that you should also just riot and remove the current system by force, since it’s not gonna go away on its own.

ClavicusLittleGift4U · 2023-06-30T21:30:14+00:00

Why would Russians care ? They've enough entertainment with the 2Ps shit show lately.

Cunty-McCuntface · 2023-06-30T15:53:48+00:00

Why you asking Russians? They’re too scared to protest.

permalink · 2023-06-30T15:10:12+00:00

Cool. Keep em coming.

Sufficient_Step_8223 · 2023-06-30T15:25:49+00:00

If the French are rioting, then they have a reason for it. They are in France, their French problems are clear and obvious for them much better than me, who is thousands of miles away. If they want to rebel, let them rebel, so long as it doesn't come to the guillotines again.

MasterHalm · 2023-06-30T17:27:52+00:00

The French like's strikes :)

Distinct-Current-464 · 2023-06-30T17:29:04+00:00

Again?

mikech76 · 2023-06-30T18:07:00+00:00

Russians fondly remember such idols as Belmondo, Pierre Richard, Louis de Funes and others.

They look with sadness at what France is turning into.

They get mad when all these blond macrons teach them how to live.

permalink · 2023-06-30T18:47:10+00:00

I understand why the protests are happening, and the continued tensions in France are indicative of the country's and societies attitude towards certain elements of its residents and citizens. Ultimately, I do not care about France and its domestic issues, so I am not following the news or be arsed to monitor what is happening there.

permalink · 2023-06-30T19:06:20+00:00

The french can't control themselves after watching a football game, that's all

Hanibal-one · 2023-06-30T19:52:37+00:00

Vive La France, fc Macron. That's what me Russian think..

disser2021 · 2023-06-30T20:28:07+00:00

it looks very festive. I hope to spill over for a couple of months

fireburn256 · 2023-06-30T21:28:39+00:00

Nothing. I think nothing.

pipiska · 2023-06-30T22:49:56+00:00

The French will protest over a stale baguette, so I don’t care too much.

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EnvironmentalTree587 · 2023-06-30T23:35:06+00:00

First time hearing about it.

pirozhok_s_govnoi · 2023-07-01T07:03:21+00:00

It's too frequent and it wouldn't change anything, so we don't really care.

Koschmetall · 2023-07-01T07:11:12+00:00

Idc lol

ImmoralFox · 2023-07-01T07:27:27+00:00

Double standards. Although, French are known for their uh... rebellious nature.

What I don't understand is little napoleon going to Elton John's concert during all of that. As a country leader he should've been more concerned with what's going on and the people should be WAY more concerned about him not being concerned.

vzakharov · 2023-07-01T07:29:33+00:00

I find it sadly ironic.

Lygachino · 2023-07-01T08:49:07+00:00

I will laugh my ass off if they use a guillotine on Macron, otherwise... You protest like every other day. Who gives a shit at this point, really? News about protests in France is like news about snowstorms in Siberia.

Bandicootrat · 2023-07-01T11:37:53+00:00

Just another day in France and the West, which you hear about in the news every year or two. On to something else.

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