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| Rioting leftists besiege French capital after populist National Rally party victory |
| 2024-07-02 |
| Y'don't suppose that sort of nonsense might be why they won? [NYPOST] The streets of Gay Paree became a war zone overnight Sunday as tens of thousands of left-wing rioters erupted into the streets in fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... opposition to the historic election victory by the country’s right-wing National Rally (NR). Rioters smashed storefront windows, vandalized monuments and set massive bonfires in public squares after the election results revealed the party, headed by nationalist Marine Le Pen, took 33% of the vote in the decisive first round of La Belle France’s legislative elections. Stunning video spread widely online showed mass groups of demonstrators clashing with cops, launching fireworks that at times bathed city streets in an eerie blood-red glow. Could have been a PRIDE parade. Plumes of tear gas smoke wafted throughout the crowds as they battled it out in the streets with riot-gear clad coppers, the wild melee punctuated by the sounds of coughing and shattering glass. A united bloc of left-leaning parties called the New Popular Front coalition nabbed 28% of the vote for a second-place finish, while incumbent President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party scraped together just 20% of the vote. The dead-last finish marked a stinging defeat for Macron, who called for the snap runoff election the day after his party was defeated by NR in June’s parliamentary elections as a Hail Mary attempt to thwart the NR’s continued rise. But the ascent of right-of-center party in a free and fair election proved too much for many Gay Paree youths to bear, who directed their anger toward vandalizing their own city’s landmarks and businesses. Much like the US, La Belle France has been beset by an overwhelming influx of |
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