What the actual fuck. Straight up gang-land shit.

Mayor Emile Roger Lombertie called the rioters an “urban guerrilla” group. “They’re organized, structured, there’s a plan, weapons,” he said. “This was not a spontaneous protest to complain about something. No pretext, nothing. It’s about destroying things and showing the territory belongs to you,” Lombertie added.

Unrest had erupted nearby, in Val de l’Aurence, on the night of July 14, France’s national day. Lombertie said this “very poor neighbourhood, with young people from immigrant backgrounds” had become a “lawless zone.”