Society

When power turns the right to voice one's anger into a seditious threat, the Republic’s very foundations begin to wobble. With bans issued in quick succession, courts bypassed, unanimous opposition, and rank-and-file police officers abandoned, the chaos is no longer in the streets—it sits at the very top. This is the unvarnished portrait of a president who, by dint of muzzling dissent, reveals he has already lost control.

On Sunday, Laurent Nuñez tendered his resignation. On Monday, Emmanuel Macron refused it. In between, thousands of shattered shop windows, police officers filmed in the middle of looting, and BlackBlocs who seem to move freely among those supposed to stop them. While the media exhaust themselves opposing Le Pen and Mélenchon, the real person responsible remains in charge and continues to empty the coffers for Ukraine. The images exist. They accuse.