I watched some of the videos and the protestors I heard had foreign accents and did not look ethnic French. Wondering if they have their own antifas as well.
Antifa is big in Europe and was active there long before the Antifas made it to the US to join with the remnants of other European movements, such as the Black Bloc. It’s basically, like Black Bloc, an anarchist movement. As usual most of the members are from the more privileged classes in origin.
These riots started with the truckers, who are not Antifa, but just your average European union member leftist. People were upset over the fuel tax rise, but I wouldn’t regard them as exactly freedom fighters. Europeans are in love with government, and expect it to give them everything, and they never think to ask where the money comes from to do this. (Another thing they were complaining about is Macron’s attempt to raise the extremely low retirement pension age by a year or two.)
So it started as just your average European labor-demonstration-quasi- riot and then Antifa saw its chance, along of course with the Islamist element (look at the videos) and this is what we have.