What in the hell kind of gun blows someone's head apart like that near the end?
I was thinking the same thing.. If they used 50 cal off the top of he tanks/transports at close range would do that.
.60 caliber machine gun?
Any NATO 5.56mm caliber rifle on up. The French use the FAMAS-F2. America uses the same round in the M-16 series and M-249 light machinegun. The round was invented in the USA in the 1950s by Remington as a squirrel hunting cartridge.
The rifle that did that damage was the least-powerful weapon the French troops had. No tear gas, no riot control or non-lethal crowd dispersion at all in this video. Just firearms.
This was a massacre.