French president expresses 'European solidarity' with Spain after US threats over Madrid’s stance on Iran

https://piefed.social/c/europe/p/1841865/french-president-expresses-european-solidarity-with-spain-after-us-threats-over-madrids

The frech have a fucked up police state, being trailblazers when it comes to surveilance in the EU and somehow every second protest ends in a riot, but when it comes to their european foreign policy, they are really solid.

And of course french political discourse, just like most european political discourse, downplays far-right violence, while overstating left-wing political violence. Like when recently a far-right provocateur died after starting a fight at a left-wing protest, and somehow a leftist party in France has to answer for his death?

somehow every second protest ends in a riot,

Start of violence has slowly switched from “some protesters sometimes are violent” to “police start it most of the protests” in the 00s through the 10s.