Limoges today 
Is someone seriously saying this is lycéens?
Come off it.
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No, I just didn’t think it worthy of its own thread.
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I get so mad at seeing businesses being ruined by thieving yobs who are not manifestants. True believers in the cause would not do this to one of their own trying to survive the current problems of running a business or employing people. These “casseurs” are not interested in any cause, just out to cause serious trouble and line their pockets from what they can steal or destroy. Just hope those caught in the act or found later on are made to pay heavily or at least their parents if they are minors. Just read that the front of Galleries LaFayette here in town was smashed to pieces by these yobs and other shops and rests who could not protect their businesses plus it was demanded to the general peaceful but striking public by the prefecture not to manifest in the city centre and to keep it on outer roundabouts and main roads only. Saw pictures of yobs in Paris armed with baguettes to attack the police, did they have something nasty hidden inside them I wonder but what the hell?
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I know the building well enough. Funny, or maybe not, how familiarity makes feelings more acute. When I saw the news last night, I was livid. I would have had the casseurs guillotined, metaphorically speaking. When it’s been ‘just’ unfamiliar places I was seeing on the news, I’ve only been a mixture of angry and incredulous (that there are people motivated to cause such damage)
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Time for baton rounds and water cannons.
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They’ll be there soon enough.
I’ve been to Limoges many a time. I always liked the iconic townhall building, and was extremely sad to see it succumb to anarchists. I’m pretty sure the vast majority of protestors don’t want this, nor the opportunistic looting.
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I wonder if the legitimate protesters have thought whether they want to be providing the opportunity for those who want burn and pillage. It’s not the protesters fault of course, and they shouldn’t have to stop due to those with nefarious intent, but one does wonder at what point “not in my name” might come into it.
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I must admit I didn’t care in the slightest. If people were hurt that would be an altogether different matter, but bricks and mortar? Meh. Which is of course not to say I’m in anyway positive about it happening, just that I can’t pretend to be outraged. If they put up the taxe fonciere for the entire department to pay for rebuilding/ renovation I may get a little more upset… 
Oops
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What if it was your bricks and mortar?
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I expect that in the end they were just vehicles that were available and were used.
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I have no doubt but I also think it will become problematic with the usual suspects.
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It’s a public building, as a haute vienne resident it kinda is my bricks and mortar. But more to your point, if it was my house that someone burnt down I’d be temporarily upset of course, but I repeat what I said earlier, if people were hurt it would be an entirely different matter, but my bricks and mortar is just that, bricks and mortar. You’re not really asking the right person as I’ve never been materialistic, almost everything I own is for a purpose, i don’t have things in my life for sentimental reasons really, the things I own to enable me to be warm, dry, not be naked in public, do my job etc, so I wouldn’t be bereft if it happened to me as long as the living creatures I love are ok.
For me that day came of " not in my name " was February 2 1972. . As a student I had accompanied the student march to the British Embassy in Dublin, protesting the murdering of 21 people in Derry the previous Sunday. ..By the Parachute Regiment . It was at that time impossible to see how things could get much worse . Anyway the protest was large and peaceful and respectful . At a certain moment in time ..a message was circulating ..“The Dockers are coming” . Soon afterwards a Bedford open top lorry arrives and was edged through the crowd ,It contained a number of very burly men ..decidedly not Student types . Very soon after ..minutes ,petrol bombs were being thrown at the door and the sole Garda standing on duty . Then I saw people , who minutes previously were a peaceful protest smashing flagstones to make rocks. I turned away in disgust and walked home. . It was an object lesson in how Agent Provocateurs can change the mood of a crowd in minutes . That is exactly what is now happening in France
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I was there too. I was at home watching the news with my family when the peaceful march was reported. My Dad said why don’t we pop into Stephen’s Green (a lovely spot where the British Embassy was, and just around the corner from my old school) and have a look. Our naivety 
We weren’t even going to make a political statement or anything, just to have a gawk.
Luckily we were standing way back when it all kicked off. We hightailed it home PDQ.
I’m sure the same is the case for many on the periphery of yesterday’s sad events.
I’m wondering how much government involvement is being used to discredit the protesters?
The interior minister has quit after pressure from all sides and a Macron speech due tomorrow, according to the Guardian headline.
Is that the one blocking all the foreign pensioners citizenship requests? Retalueu ??