My other thought is that we really can't be sure of what is happening. The MSM gets almost all stories wrong, except for the most basic of facts. In this case, you can be certain of a few things from their stories:
- There is a country named "France"
- There are "youths" in "France"
- There are cars in "France"
- "France" will surrender soon
(I threw in that last one myself, but it's a pretty safe deduction.) :-)