The fire was smoldering under the ashes.
It turned Thursday night into a real fire that crossed the country.
In Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux or even Amiens, the same scenes of spontaneous revolt broke out.
White-hot by an eruptive sequence in Parliament, angry citizens mingled with enraged ultra-leftists and the most hardened "yellow vests" to destroy everything in their path.
In an atmosphere of generalized rebellion, the mechanics of chaos got under way.
In the streets of the capital, the surge of anger, hitherto checked with method, suddenly became uncontrollable.
Firstly because, unlike the first eight national days of action against the pension reform which had been the subject of prior negotiations between the organizers and the Prefecture of Police, cohorts of demonstrators tumbled without warning towards Bourbon Palace.
Pushed back by the CRS and the mobile gendarmes, whose first mandate was to protect…
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