by Tyler Durden

France is tearing itself apart as far-left riots, a dire fiscal situation and years of unfettered mass migration collide, while President Emmanuel Macron loses his grip and his approval rating craters, raising the prospect of a victory for right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election.

French commentator Thaïs d’Escufon is warning that recent student protests and unrest in France reflect a much broader breakdown in public order, immigration policy and national cohesion.

In a statement addressing audiences outside France, d’Escufon said demonstrations ostensibly tied to school conditions have, in her view, become an excuse for vandalism and attacks on public institutions.

Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A French police commander in his sixties was chased, knocked down and kicked in the head until he blacked out outside a Belfort high school on Friday morning. Prosecutors have opened an investigation for attempted murder of a public official.

Images of burning schools, buses, and vicious assaults, along with a report of attempted murder, have once again hit France this morning, Oct. 1, as high school blockades mark their second week across France. What began as protests demanding better conditions for students and teachers has devolved into violence at dozens of locations, concentrated at schools with large immigrant populations