The French Government's Response to Violence in France

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President Macron has had to cancel a state visit to Germany, which was a pretty difficult decision to take. He's squeezed between a block on the far left and another block on the hard right. And both of those have been seizing the opportunity as they were to undermine his presidency. The question is whether the violence has peaked or not. If you look back at the last time France saw such widespread violence it took a state of emergency to bring that to an end.

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