[SauronOfMordor]

France has a history of strikes and marches, people in the streets, so after a while, they get accustomed to it and think it'll blow over the same way it always has.

It's different when the rioting is done by somebody who is ethnicly and culturally French. The other French can have some degree of confidence that the rioters know the rules and boundaries

It's something very different when the rioting is being done by the "other", and the French can have no confidence that the rioting will stay within "civilized" boundaries

[Vicomte13]

"It's something very different when the rioting is being done by the "other", and the French can have no confidence that the rioting will stay within "civilized" boundaries"

The French already see that, thus far, things are kept within the boundaries of property destruction but without killing.