Yep, they were using tear gas (CS) exclusively and recently (today?) switched to a combination of CS and “flash bangs”...protestors were used to throwing back CS canisters. Going to have to rethink that strategy.
Ah. It never occurred to me that they had a combination device, CS and flash-bang.
That would explain it.
I was thinking of someone modifying the CS canisters, or having one in a thousand that has an incorrectly manufactured element inside that has a little more oomph than the specs say should be there.
I was engaged in one-dimensional thinking on that element of it and got tunnel vision thinking of that.
Police strategy must’ve been changed by order of Macron.
Next step: erect a guillotine just as a reminder.
Better yet, make room on Devil’s Island.
The French are such romantic and fun people.