No riots, per se, but random acts of vandalism following Sarkozy's election



In a previous entry, I noted the acts of vandalism and gatherings in Place Bellecour. Well, as it turns out, some of the rabblerousers headed uptown towards Hotel de Ville and sprayed hideous graffiti on a local shoe store (vicious epithets against Sarkozy, and also decrying the "waste of electricity that the shoe store was engendering by keeping its lights on all night").

More shockingly, on the day that I left for Marseille, I was shocked to find in the middle of the road, the recycling silo (filled with empty glass bottles) overturned and in the middle of the road. There it was, emptied of its bottles (read: projectiles for use against the police), and dumped unceremoniously in the middle of the streets.

Further down, near Lyon Part-Dieu station, where I was to catch my TGV train, a wastebacket, melted after being burnt.