if violence didn’t work the state wouldnt demand a monopoly

Sad thing is, Putin's buddy LePen (or what's her name), is taking advantage of this to screw things up even more.
I am 99% sure there is some shady involvement in the extra damage caused in these events.(Setting aside 1% because there's always a chance of being wrong.)

I headed back up the Boulevard de Magenta. There I met protesters including a student at the Sorbonne, who had come to “support the highschoolers first and foremost, and to demand more money in public schools, from primary schools to universities”. Another major factor that he said had motivated him to come out on to the street “was the repression faced by highschoolers, who are under 18”, such as an incident in Lens, where a police grenade blew a 15-year-old’s hand to bits.