France was rocked over the weekend by some of its most intense rioting in years amid protests over an ongoing cost of living crisis. And in Nice along the Southern coast, one game store employee named Pierre went viral for trying to chase away rioters in front of a shattered Micromania.
Video shared on X showed the man standing in the doorway of the shop next to an image of Goku from Dragon Ball Z before briefly leaving his perch to try to chase away some of the people contributing to the chaos. At one point as he’s walking back to the store someone nails him with an aerial kick from behind, shocking the crowd of onlookers. He gets back up and continues standing in the doorway of the Micromania as someone else hands him back his glasses.
He told French radio broadcaster ICI that what he did was probably dumb and he did it without thinking. “I can’t seem to intellectualize what happened. Maybe that will come later,” he said (via a machine translation). “I think I shouldn’t have done it in the first place. It was stupid. But at the time, that’s what I did.”
Asaltan una tienda de Micromania en Niza y agreden al dueño por intentar defenderla: pic.twitter.com/kD8OgE2hWr
The protests have been gaining momentum since last month due to frustrations with poor school conditions and inflation across the economy . The anger has been fueled in part by the French government’s attempt to pass an austerity bill that would further cut social services.
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