The riots in France seem to have accomplished their purpose.
The next time someone tells you, "violence never settles anything" you can respond, "on earth, it settles almost everything that ever gets settled." [Okay, that's an opposition of the saccharine with the cynical.]
On December 1st alone (perhaps the peak of the rioting) more than 100 cars were burned in Paris, and the Arc de Triomphe was vandalized. The city's mayor estimated property damages at more than 3 million euros.
On December 4, the prime minister said of the carbon taxes that had catalyzed this response, "no tax deserves to endanger the unity of the nation." The government has backed off the implementation of the new taxes. So that was "settled."
So if your interlocutor insists on getting an example, that one is near at hand.
As a bit of comic relief in this story, the US psychopath in chief, Donald J. Trump, tweeted that the crowd was chanting "We want Trump." He seems to have gotten that idea from another denizen of twitter, Charlie Kirk, and HE seems to have come to believe it by misunderstanding a video of an unrelated protest .. in London.
https://factcheck.afp.com/no-french-protesters-are-not-chanting-we-want-trump
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