No doubt about that, like this one:The riots will eventually lose momentum and despite all the material damage, it's still pales relatively to the damage introduced by politicians via de-industrialization, covid-related destruction of jobs and the economy, etc.
However, this will leave the population divided, fragile, and ripe for the taking by a 'saviour'.
There is this remark in the 13 may 2017 session that may be an indication of where things might eventually be going:
While everybody's debating which one's fault it is (the cop or the teenager), there might be (perhaps) some larger plans at play in the shadows.
Requisitions: Macron's first serious attack on private property
For several months now, the right to private property has been under discreet but heavy attack in Europe, against a backdrop of growing tensions. We have already pointed out the risks posed by rising interest rates on first-time buyers with debts in Great Britain, a policy which contributes to the "densification of housing" advocated by the globalized caste and its environmentalist auxiliaries. For its part, the European Commission has announced that it will use frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine. In this general movement, where property rights are beginning to be nibbled away on all sides, Emmanuel Macron is doing his bit: article 23 of the military programming law specifies (imprudently in our view) the regime for requisitions in the event of danger to the nation. A government amendment even provides for prison sentences for those who refuse to obey them. This measure is in line with the general logic of the "emergency" on which Macron relies so heavily.
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Hereafter a Deepl translation of this article 23, directly from the Assemblée Nationale website:
Requisition is a mechanism of public power available to the State to obtain, in the absence of any other means at its disposal, the supply of a good or the performance of a service, by a natural or legal person, when these cannot be obtained through amicable negotiation or by contract.
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- requisitions to deal with threats to the life of the nation. These are threats whose territorial scope exceeds those which the prefectural authorities can counter on the basis of the General Code of Local Authorities. This applies equally to essential economic activities (necessary for water, energy or food supply, for example), the protection of the population, the integrity of the territory or the permanence of the institutions of the Republic, as well as threats justifying the implementation of France's international defense commitments. Given the constitutional prerogatives of the President of the Republic, guarantor of national independence, the continuity of the State and the regular functioning of public authorities, it is up to him to order such requisitions, by decree deliberated in the Council of Ministers. He may do so even if the threat is not immediate, but merely foreseeable, in order to ensure that the nation is prepared at an earlier stage for the dangers that could affect it. When such a threat arises, it will also be possible to order the freezing of movable property liable to be requisitioned, for a period not exceeding fifteen days, renewable once only;
- requisitions decided by decree of the Prime Minister, aimed specifically at dealing with emergency situations involving the safeguarding of national defense interests. This involves entrusting the Head of Government, who is responsible for national defense, with the task of taking the urgent measures required, in the absence of any other means available in good time, to enable the State to carry out the operations necessary for its defense, even independently of any threat to the life of the Nation. This may involve, for example, the need to carry out a defense operation as a matter of urgency, using resources that the State cannot acquire within a timeframe compatible with the conduct of the operation (such as the recovery of a military aircraft damaged at sea).
Furthermore, the usefulness of requisitions can only be guaranteed if the people, goods and services likely to be requisitioned are identified in advance of crisis periods or emergency situations. As a result, provisions have been made for the identification of goods and people likely to be requisitioned, as well as for the organization of exercises.