[damota]

The author of the article clearly doesn't know France nor its recent history.

The Gilets Jaunes movement is a contestation of late stage capitalism, not a series of pogroms against muslims.

The people has been rumbling for quite some time now. With an arrogant, borderline authoritarian president that has nothing but contempt and mocking towards the French people, added to a weak political line (ni de droite ni de gauche ... mais surtout de droite. Neither left nor right, but especially right).

People are roaring in uprising because what they see is a convergence of the resources towards the hands of those who have too much, and less and less towards those of who have too few.

You don't need propaganda when the King is also the Fool.