Retailleau is really pushing his agenda!
“Son geste a choqué, jusqu’au gouvernement. Le titre de séjour de l’homme qui a allumé lundi sa cigarette sur la tombe du Soldat inconnu, sous l’Arc de Triomphe (VIIIe arrondissement) va lui être retiré par le ministre de l’Intérieur Bruno Retailleau, indique ce mercredi la place Beauvau, confirmant une information d’Europe 1.”
Had he been a different nationality would the outcome have been the same?
One less idiot (and one less smoker) - what’s not to like?
Hope his nationality/skin colour wasn’t a factor, but it was a really stupid thing to do.
A Moroccan with 21 previous convictions if I understand correctly.
Would a French person who had done the same be treated equally?
I hope he has a good lawyer.
Are French journalists more likely to pounce on stuff that could make a news item in August, same as their British colleagues?
Or are all French journalists on holiday in August leaving the news to the interns? 
If that is so, the authorities should deport him.
I expect that they probably will do so, especially in view of the fact that his previous convictions are for contempt, rebellion and racial insults. Apparently his Titre de Sejour runs out in October anyway.
If his CdS has been annulled then he will be given a OQTF surely.
Probably upon release from prison after serving whatever term his latest offence earns him.
Although it’s just the action of one stupid foreign person, not only is it seized on by the RW media, but more imperceptively, it can adversely affect perceptions of an entire diaspora.
Bearing in mind the offenders apparent nationality, and the view of many French people regarding people from that part of the world, one wonders whether it is possible for the perceptions to be any more adverse than they already are.
True, but fortunately even though the French apparently abhor spicy food, everyone loves couscous.
Let’s hope so, but if he’s been in France for more than 10 yrs very difficult to deport.
I don’t, & have had many from different family settings to high-end restos.
Could be worse. Could be Andouillette
Love it with mustard 
Never encountered both in the same resto, but if I did, it’d be a difficult choice.
Unfortunately, somehow andouillettes and couscous don’t fit together in my experience. Maybe some more cosmopolitan SFer will suggest how they can.
Meanwhile, despite having spent quite some time in the Maghreb, the best couscous I’ve ever had was a pigeon one in a Jewish resto in Montreal. And my best andouillette was possibly in a village on top of the Cevennes, served with aligot and a whole roasted fig.
Ah, but you’re not French!
I first time I ordered andouillette, in ignorance, was in 1981. When it arrived and I cut into it I got a personal, private rerun of the chest buster scene in Alien. Never again.
This makes interesting reading and it seems the punishment is fair.
I hope this gentleman gets the medical help he needs. 