Boulevard de Magenta

Now the incident with Antoine, the street medic, if we take a closer look at our map here, it took place Here we can see Place de la République, and it took place right there, which is right on the beginning of Rue du Faubourg du Temple.

And in fact, on the same day in Paris, French media and also the police began reporting that a man had died from cardiac arrest on Boulevard Magenta near Rue de l'Encri, in the 10th arrondissement, although they didn't provide any more details about how that had happened.

For example, the man's age, name, all the time that it took place.

So if we go back to our map, so the incident with our street medic took place here and the man who died from cardiac arrest in a separate incident it was around here on this road which is Boulevard de Magenta on the intersection with Rue de Longrye which is right there and it's in fact this is what has triggered the confusion given that the death and the incident with the street medic took place In the same general area on the same day, social media users began to conflate them and assume that the two events are one and the same and that they involved the same person.

This was actually taken from a six-hour YouTube livestream of Saturday's protests in Paris.

It was then lifted from that six-hour livestream and posted separately on social media, claiming that police had dragged an unconscious protester.

Then, versions of this video began further trickling down on social media with the claim that the man had been murdered that he had been assassinated and that he had been beaten to death now there were some other angles of this of this incident to place filmed by other protesters as well they too slowly began with time to be reposted and reshared by other social medias claiming the same thing that the street medic had been killed now in addition to the man who died from cardiac arrest nearby in that same area on Boulevard Magenta.

There were two more confirmed deaths that took place here in Paris over that weekend, although there has been no link established between those two deaths and the violence and protest in those cases.

Quote, I've never seen this before.

I am disgusted, said Sophie Van Poporange, 47, as she gazed at ransacked shops on Boulevard Magenta, the road in Paris where she has lived for 22 years and which is frequently used for demonstrations.

More than half a million demonstrators marched on Saturday to protest the rising cost of living and poor conditions in schools, among other grievances.

Many were stunned on Sunday at how rioters had used those demonstrations as a smokescreen for vandalism.

And I think in many ways, there's much to admire about the French political culture in this way.

But this descending into just, you know, the Boulevard Magenta, just kind of shops just being smashed apart.

I mean, Mélenchon did say this is not our methods or something yesterday, but it's a pretty weak distancing from the situation.

Clearly, this wasn't a kind of organized, coherent political protest.