Others defaced a statue of France's wartime leader and former president Charles de Gaulle
Must be pro-Vichy. JBS founder Robert Welch considered de Gaulle a Communist dictator (you know, for the way he treated the collaborators).
Not neccesarily. They may be anarchists, but they are still British. All Britons know, instinctively, that the French are the enemy, and De Gaulle was the very modern epitome of French nationalism.