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Paris Holocaust memorial vandalised as city rocked by riots (www.thejc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by NorskSud@lemmy.pt to c/europe@feddit.de

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Jewish organisations said the vandalism was 'horrifying' and 'shameful'

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[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

While this is unacceptable, I do think it’s curious that a lot of the news coverage about the riots in France has been about those relatively small stories where the rioters look to be completely in the wrong.

These riots are the product of understandable and logical frustrations with French police (and local police more broadly, looking at riots in Brussels), yet most news stories about it are things like this or almost non stories about the rioters also being aggressive towards journalists.

Is vandalism of holocaust memorials acceptable? No. Should fringe stories like that be the focus of riots that are fundamentally about something completely different? No as well, in my opinion. And I’m kind of wary that it does seem like the coverage is going to unfold like that.