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It's called riot control
How so? Is it just "France is not a totalitarian nation", so it's riot contol by definition? Or is it because "the other side" also rioted in other instances and/or previously in that scene, and you think collective punishment is a thing -- while talking about the "full extent of the law" at the same time no less? Just by all the stuff you brought up to excuse and distract from it, by how bankrupt it is to just go "F…
It would be funny if you went to say, Uzbekistan or N-Korea and explained to people there why you think France is a totalitarian nation.