October 17, right-wing primary, CNews… Nicolas Sarkozy's big interview at Le Figaro

LE FIGARO. - The riots of October 17 marked a turning point in the high school movement and back-to-school social mobilization. How did you experience them?

Nicolas SARKOZY. - The riots of October 17 were deeply shocking and for many traumatic, but, unfortunately, consistent with our history. This is obviously not a question of minimizing what happened, but it seems necessary to me to place all this in a historical perspective. The Commune, the Terror, 19 deaths in the riots of February 6, 1934, the attempted lynching of Léon Blum two years later, the Algerian war, May 68, the events of 2005... France has always suffered violence! This is a constant in our country which has never experienced a change of regime in a peaceful manner. Today, “The police kill” is a slogan that is rightly outrageous, just as the cry of “CRS-SS” was shocking in May 68! Excessiveness and baseness are not new things for 2026! Remind…