perplex wrote:"nothing justifies violence, whatever the reasons for the anger", Valérie Pécresse, they really did not understand anything
It's no longer violence, it's self-defense !!!
The outbursts of violence are something quite normal in view of the current historical period and the socio-economic state (1) of our country.
We can easily predict that, depending on such or such manifestations, a certain number of overflows will be expected.
Law enforcement forecasts are based on this type of assessment (via the UCFM, the mobile force coordination unit).
Thus depending on the type of event (festive, ecological, socio-economic or societal) we see a certain type of participants agglomerate whose claims are numerous (calm, assertive, or hateful).
The course followed, the weather are also decisive elements in the development of an event.
Then come the consideration of the number of participants (10,100,1000,100 etc ...), knowing that the constitution of a group of more than 000 people can lead to the
depersonalization phenomenon(2) (depersonalization induced by a process of collective stress).
In view of the socio-economic character and the tensions accumulated through the retreat of the middle classes over the past fifteen years, it is therefore quite logical to note the violent outbursts among the demonstrators, and it is just as logical to find in reaction some overflows of violence on the part of the police (action / reaction).
1) We are currently going through a period of stagflation (stagnation / economic inflation), phase preceding that of the depression, we will therefore see in the coming years more violent events in our society,
and all this will be perfectly normal. As normal as finding that the water boils at around 100C ° ...
2) It would be urgent to popularize this phenomenon!
Depersonalization is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when an individual loses their individuality due to a form of amazement induced by emotional tensions crossing a group of individuals.It is for this reason that a certain number of thugs in the framework of the yellow vests demonstrations are people unknown to the police and more often than not good citizens in everyday life.
And it is for this reason also that most of them do not manage to understand their arrests despite obvious evidence such as video surveillance, it is as if they were in a "second" state.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.