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‘Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres’: What does the French student protest slogan mean?

A Snapchat message, which students believe came from an undercover police officer, has become the rallying cry of a youth movement that has now spread to Belgium and Italy.

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00:20I came to see the state of the damage, I also came to a place where I could not be
00:26able to access as a manifestant here.
00:29I was here with my husband, and we started gasping directly.
00:35I was stomached by the degradation and the violence that was expressed.
00:42It was a lot of questions about what makes it, what makes it, what makes it.
00:48You wanted to make a manifest, and then there was a wall of CRS,
00:53and there were flames everywhere, there were cries everywhere.
00:57I was afraid.
00:59I was afraid.
01:00I was afraid because my wife was there.
01:03I said, I don't want to go.
01:05I was afraid.
01:06I was afraid.
01:07I was Parisian since I was born.
01:10When I arrived here, it made me feel so bad.
01:15It made me feel bad.
01:16Except for not the young people.
01:17I saw some young people who went to the Nation.
01:21They were very cool.
01:22They played, they sang and all that.
01:24So I arrived here, I said, it was good.
01:26And in fact, there was a disaster that I never met here.
01:29Never.
01:30I didn't think that it would be like this.
01:32Because it's the castors who came here.
01:35And it hurts me because it's legitimate movement.
01:39And I love Place de la République.
01:41And I was afraid of the state in which I would find the place this morning.
01:45I was afraid.
01:45I was afraid.
01:46I was afraid.
01:47I was afraid.
01:47I was afraid.
01:48I was afraid.
01:48I was afraid.
01:48I was afraid.
01:48You

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