The rioters by large are also of a different ethnicity and religion, which makes it far easier for them to commit violence in the French society. Many of the immigrants are fighting-age males as well. Plenty of recent videos from France where you notice a guy of 1 race getting attacked by several of another. When you look at comparable US events like the BLM riots or Jan 6, there is usually some degree of temperance...as in black and whites here have co-existed long enough that we all consider each other Americans, or at least enough to generally avoid violence. The Rittenhouse case was an example of where things finally got out of control. Not so comparable to France, where I seen a video of a French guy trying to stop his car from getting burnt, and then the rioters cut his hand off and recorded it. This one-sided extreme violence is nothing new, in a country where an immigrant beheads a teacher in the street, or there's a mass shooting at the Bataclan in 2015, or 12 Charlie Hedbo employees get murdered after their office is stormed, or a million other things. The situation is not a complicated one, but white guilt has rendered people blind. When an immigrant kills a white girl, they plant flowers. When a white cop kills an immigrant breaking the law, there are riots.
It's France, where the populace imported another people of different race and religion out of guilt, from a leftist media apparatus espousing globalism and multiculturalism. These people are all new, they are Muslim, they are black or arab, they speak a different language at least initially, and the outcome is this. They burnt down the largest public library in Marseilles(?) and are looting the stores, assaulting people on the streets, destroying businesses and cars. Unloading clips on the street at night into the air so that it's clear who has control. So I don't think it's really based that France is out of control like this. I think it's the sign of a society that has been poisoned so much that it's starting to vomit.