James Stout

Okay.

In any case, I think you would have a hard time defending that it was purely self-defense on part of the security of that counter-demonstration.

Yeah, exactly.

Contra Attic also published another article on February 20th about acts of violence from fascist militants in just Lyon.

There had been around 102 acts of violence as of 2010.

yeah that's one of their spots from what I understand there's lots of groups that formed in response to like the fascist threats that were there and also a lot of the fascist violence is them just harassing brown people or like muslim people so it's hard to get a proper estimate but I found this one very detailed

They mentioned like from the top of their heads, like 25 different instances.

The article for that will be in the show notes so people can read it themselves.

Okay.

Now I'll cite this from franceinfo.fr.

Eyewitness accounts from residents who saw the flight fighting take place.

Christine also witnessed the violence.

I saw a fight over there with lots of young people.

They were hitting each other, hitting each other, hitting each other.

And then I saw a young man fall, she recounts.

Maxime also saw the attackers flee.

They shouted disperse when they saw, I think, that they might have hit him hard.

They went off into all the streets.

Everyone got out of their cars.

Some guys on scooters stopped.