Maybe

What I do know is that press in france is rather tightly state controlled, sequels of wwII to prevent it from becoming the enemy's propaganda bullhorn

For the most part it's liberal left wing leaning drivel, not only but mostly, so it's not a direct control, sarkozy for instance got bashed to no end by the press because he wanted to modify their subsidized status; they are subsidized by the state, that's where the control part starts

However, on some key bi partisan issues, when order is given to not talk about a certain topic, stuffs related to national security mostly but not only, you have foreign relation matters, they shut up. Left leaning free masonry is the cog between the sate and the press essentially, so they can align/pass orders on behalf of .gov... Or not. But for sensitive internal affairs, they act. (it's french free masonry btw, it's different from anglo masonry but I digress)

So, here, what's at stake?

They fear a copy pasta with the US (remember, BLM attacked US embassy in greece...), immigration rejection/"skepticism" keeps on growing in france, since a while now, no go zones are a thing, you have calais and the migroid crisis, the dossiers keep piling on

https://www.thedailybeast.com/amid-spreading-george-floyd-protests-in-europe-a-question-do-black-lives-matter-less-in-france

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opinion/black-lives-matter-in-france-too.html

Same deal a wannabe gangsta died in the hands of police not so long ago and the affair is resurfacing... I believe Le Monde confirming the US stats, is a not so subtle form damage control in the end

France is a couple of inches away from total breakdown with covid and gilet jaunes plus the bazillions of shits piling on since decades, plus italy virtually going bankrupt (france is a huge lender to italy)... So they pretty much do anything they can to keep things as cool as possible, socially speaking

Free masonry is everywhere in france, you can hardly find a lawyer in paris who isn't into it for instance, and it doesn't stop there, paper press is also massively tied to them via editors in chief

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And yes you have right wing freemasonry too, they aren't the dominant faction, but they exist

Check this out (it's supposed to be a rebuttal of the stats)

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2020/06/04/aux-etats-unis-les-blancs-sont-majoritairement-tues-par-d-autres-blancs_6041778_4355770.html

>Qu’en est-il des violences interraciales, sur lequel se concentre le graphique ? Ses chiffres sont corrects : 547 948 plaintes ont été déposées par une victime blanche contre un agresseur qu’elle a identifié comme noir, contre 59 778 plaintes − près de dix fois moins − émanant d’une victime noire contre un présumé agresseur blanc. Le nombre de victimes d'agression est proportionnel au poids démographique de leur communauté

What about interracial violence, on which the graph focuses? His figures are correct: 547,948 complaints were lodged by a white victim against an attacker whom she identified as black, against 59,778 complaints - almost ten times less - from a black victim against an alleged white aggressor. The number of victims of aggression is proportional to the demographic weight of their community

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Let that sink in... lol

Btw, the guy forwarding the said stats, him here featured in this tweet https://twitter.com/DamienRieu/status/1267543209326108672

Is the lone jew I told you about a couple of weeks ago (sephardi), he's totally opposed to immigration. Pretty much all celebs spit on him and an arab actually spitted and insulted him in the streets a few weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GrJ4dGibc

Needless to mention that dumbass arab pretty much proved eric zeymour's point, and lost in court evidently.