🚨 https://preparewithlionel.com ORDER NOW! Winter Prep Bundle Preparedness Starts With Personal Responsibility ◉ Follow LIONEL on X: https://x.com/LionelMedia ◉ SUBSCRIBE to the LIONEL NATION Newsletter https://bit.ly/4gVpdcQ ▶ SUBSCRIBE to the LIONEL NATION Newsletter. https://bit.ly/4ouBt68 France is burning and the government still refuses to call it what it is. What began weeks ago as students angry about overcrowded classrooms, missing teachers and crumbling school buildings has been hijacked by masked, black-clad rioters throwing Molotov cocktails, looting stores and setting historic buildings on fire. This is not protest. This is not unrest. This is organized violence and the people doing it are not students. On the weekend of October 17, hundreds of thousands marched over the cost of living and public services. In Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Limoges and elsewhere the marches were taken over. The ornate city hall in Limoges was gutted by fire, its roof and clock tower collapsing. Lyon’s tourist office was torched. Shops were smashed and looted by the hundreds. Cars burned. More than 2,000 people were arrested. Nearly a thousand police officers were injured. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez admitted forces lost control in some cities. President Macron rejected his resignation, slammed intelligence failures and ordered new methods. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu blamed the ultra-left and criminals, vowed the government would not be intimidated and authorized local curfews while leaving the door open to a state of emergency. The pattern is clear. Legitimate grievances about schools and living costs gave cover to outside agitators and criminals who arrived ready for war. Teachers said the people in front of them were not their students. Hooded groups with no connection to any classroom showed up with projectiles, accelerants and plans to destroy. The state deployed 60,000 officers and still got overrun in key areas because it treated the problem as a protest pr