“They’ve surrendered their country to vandals,” claimed Donald Trump this week, as videos of protests and looting across France spread across social media and TV news bulletins.
The US president has framed the unrest in France – and similar protests across Europe – as a migration problem. But what’s actually getting people out on to the streets in their thousands?
The BBC’s Europe editor, Katya Adler, joins us to explain how years of discontent and disenfranchisement among young people have coalesced in this period of fiery protest.
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Chapters:
00:00 Riots have taken place in France and across Europe
01:45 How did street protests become violent?
04: 27 What’s been President Macron’s response?
07:23 President Trump is blaming immigration
10:30 It’s not just happening in France
16:35 How much is the economy to blame?
18:45 Is Europe is in decline?
21:35 Why are so many people angry
