The reason why this issue is so spicy is that the French hard right want the government to go hardcore on the rioters, who are arguing that the native "kanak" p

The reason why this issue is so spicy is that the French hard right want the government to go hardcore on the rioters, who are arguing that the native "kanak" population is being replaced by white people, whilst at the same time the French hard right basically more or less acknowledges "The Great Replacement" as a reality( FN/MLP-Bardella is more careful with wording it, but the substance is there, R!/Zemmour outright says it). On the other hand, French far left supports independence for them on the basis of "decolonialisation" and "white colonialists who are born there shouldn't vote like kanaks", but at the same time they outright reject those ethnic arguments for "white" people in France. Result is a weird twilight zone.