All of that may or may not be true, but Macron bringing it up is designed to distract from the fact that a police officer went really aggressive on a 17 year ol

All of that may or may not be true, but Macron bringing it up is designed to distract from the fact that a police officer went really aggressive on a 17 year old, then shot him dead when he tried to flee. Apparently this was just a routine traffic check. The kid was Arab, so there is an implied racial aspect to it as well. Here's the video of the actual shooting: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230627-french-police-officer-investigated-after-teenager-shot-dead-in-paris-suburb https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230627-french-police-of... The police of course lied and tried to spin it as the kid was some sort of threat, then the video came out. The kid was unarmed, and the police had is gun drawn and pointed at his head, threatening to shoot him. The driver inched forward and was shot at point blank range. Here's the NYT summary on it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/europe/france-protests-police-shooting-timeline.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/europe/france-prote... In response to the violence Macron seems to be going full authoritarian to combat it by threatening to cut off social media and whatnot. We've of course seen this by dictators like Putin when he was being criticized for the Ukraine war.