Allow them to eat sandwiches.
A person who was spotted calmly eating his sandwich while French protesters and police clashed Thursday has gone viral after several Twitter users went wild over the juxtaposition of the scene.
Within the video, which was posted to Twitter and has since received nearly 1 million views, protesters might be seen hurling projectiles at members of the French police force who’re wearing full riot gear while a fireplace burns between the 2 groups.
The camera then focuses on a seemingly unbothered man sitting on a public bench eating his sandwich completely unfazed while chaos unfolds around him.
Twitter users have gone wild over the crazy scene.
“He didn’t know if it was his last sandwich, so he needed to enjoy it,” laughed one Twitter user.
“This man not letting anything or anyone come between him and his ham sandwich,” joked a second user.
“The Frenchest thing you’ll see today,” tweeted a 3rd person.
“Normal summer activity in France: an individual casually eating his sandwich within the midst of anti-police riots,” commented a fourth person.
Several users have compared the clip to a March tweet of two people having fun with a glass of wine in Bordeaux while demonstrators lit fires within the streets close by.
The scenes of chaos come nearly every week of violent unrest after French police reportedly shot and killed a 17-year-old delivery driver named Nahel M.
French police claimed that the 17-year-old, whose surname has not been released, threatened to run the officers down after they pulled him over at a traffic light.
Lawyers for the deceased’s family slammed the report made by police citing a video that shows two officers leaning into the driver-side window of a yellow automobile, before one officer might be heard saying that he was “going to get a bullet in the pinnacle” of the driving force.
Nahel then attempts to flee the scene only to have one in all the officers fire toward him and immediately kill him.
The police officer was detained on suspicion of manslaughter, in keeping with the prosecutor’s office in Nanterre.
In response to the French government, the killing has sparked a large protest inside the suburb leading to nearly 1,300 arrests made by police.
In an effort to curb the violence France’s Interior Ministry announced it might deploy 45,000 cops to the embattled suburb.
The continuing violence has also resulted in a staggering amount of property damage with protestors lighting several cars on fire in addition to ransacking several stores.
As well as, each the 2024 Paris Olympics aquatic training center and the house of Nanterre’s mayor were victims of the indignant mob.
President Emmanuel Macron, who was slammed for being spotted at an Elton John concert in the course of the unrest, has since called for an end to the violence.
