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The strikers who are currently blocking the roads and refineries, amongst others, are not the same as the people who set light the police car with two fonctionnaires in it.

They came from the banlieus and were trying to kill a policeman, in revenge, they say, for the way they are treated by the police. (This from French radio interviews).

In addition, other, legitimate and peaceful demonstrations are being infiltrated by 'casseurs', criminal elements linked to the extreme left, anarchists and other groups who just want to fight the police as cause the maximum amount to damage. This includes gangs from the dodgy quartiers who want to smash, loot and kill the police, as in the first para above).

Note that this kind of violence has happened in London too, though it is mainly looting and destroying property, with exceptions like the Blackbird Lees estate murder of a policeman.
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