France is surveying the damage after its worst day of civil unrest in years, following Saturday’s nationwide protests. 🇫🇷 President Macron called the rioters “sowers of chaos” and vowed prosecutions, while Prime Minister Lecornu blamed “extremely violent, radical far-left groups.” The police watchdog is investigating at least two dozen allegations of police violence, and Amnesty International has criticized the use of force against minors. The unrest comes six months before France’s presidential election, with Macron deeply unpopular and similar protests spreading across Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Albania. It is a structural failure of a fiscal model that treats austerity as the answer to every crisis and then acts surprised when the people who bear the cost of that austerity stop accepting it quietly.