The French, banned from marching to demand defense of Earth's climate, are making a pile of shoes to symbolize the march they would have done.

It would be more effective to defy the ban and march anyway.

A substantial climate protest in Paris was taken over by "black bloc" people that wanted to fight with the thugs.

I can't disagree with what they said, but it was a stupid choice of tactics. A nonviolent confrontation, maintaining the moral high ground, would have put the state in the wrong, but this senseless violence gave the state a victory.

In past protests, the "black bloc" was infiltrated by state provocateurs. Perhaps that occurred this time too.