France: Who took part in Saturday's protests?

We're going to bring back in Shirley Sitbon. So, Shirley, in that report there, we heard a little bit more about who some of these black-clad protesters or rather sort of violent demonstrators could be. The movement started with student protests. I mean, it's been kind of going along with student protests. Who were the other groups who were joining in yesterday in the peaceful demonstrations? Well, when you look at the peaceful demonstrations, you have many generations. because in the end, every protest is a bit about the same themes. The cost of living, you remember the Yellow Vests eight years ago, they protested every week for months and months. At the beginning, it wasn't violent, and then after, you know, in the third episode, the early December, then they became more and more violent. But in the end, they didn't get what they hoped for because they were complaining about the cost of living, and things have worsened. salaries are stagnant and prices have inflated everyone can see that so when you look at at all these people since then various subsidies have been cut down and also pensioners will also be forced to chip in so everybody sees their situation as worsening and they're also seeing that at the same time france's richest people are getting richer and that multinational companies are saying that they're making record profits. So there's a lot of anger there. So that's the big protest. That was the massive protest, all of these hundreds of thousands of people. Then, of course, you have those who are more violent. Some of them are part of the movement, but the most radical part of the movement because they believe that they want to change things. They really want to take this further and to attack actually sensitive sites, city halls, symbolic areas. And among them, you have many different types of people. We don't really know because they're hooded. So we can, I mean, authorities have accused the far left, but we also see on other social media accounts, we can see very good images from the side of those who break things. And they're not only on the left, so we don't really know. And then there's another group, if we can separate all this, the looters, who are not a part of those necessarily who sometimes they break into stores, But they're mainly to take advantage of the situation. They don't protest. They just come to steal from shops and continue to breaking into various areas. And we're seeing this across Paris today and in various towns. And what people are concerned about is what will happen next. There is a new protest early November. But how will this unravel, develop? There is a school vacation now. So authorities are hoping this will cool down the situation, but we don't know what's coming ahead. But nobody will forget what happened tomorrow, yesterday, sorry, what happened yesterday. Thank you, Shirley. Yes, I guess the government will have to consider its resources and rethink for the next round of demonstrations.