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[–] VelvetAnt@lemmy.zip 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't even need to be false flag. All it takes are a few pumped up idiots who use the protest as a pretext for getting thrills and dopamine kicks out of chaos and destruction.

My kid's school burned down during a protest in a suburb (not in France). The perpetrators were youth from more affluent parts of the city, kicked up on drugs they used the protests and travelled all across the city to try to set fire to preschools, schools and residences.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yep.

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and I forgot to mention the possibility that they might have been/might be agent provocateurs, however unwitting they might be in their vandalism and arson.