Avoid conflagration. Emmanuel Macron's initial hope was short-lived. From the very first statement of the head of state, Tuesday afternoon, we had retained two adjectives: "inexplicable" and "inexcusable". He had been at the limit of what he thought possible so as not to see added to the anger that was mounting a reason, or a pretext, to denounce in addition a state that some on the left already caricature as a police state.
The hours that followed, the two nights of rioting and the slogans as well as the violence that marked the march of Nanterre, proved that the time was far from appeasement. Would it have been worse without these signs of presidential attention? It is not even certain. And the question is no longer how to calm the game after what will no doubt be called a police blunder, but whether it is still possible to prevent the secession of entire territories and entire categories of the population.
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