https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46417991
A statue of Mariane, a symbol of France, was vandalised inside the Arc de Triomphe.
I think it answers the question right there. It's not about addressing a specific greivance regarding one national policy. Like attacking statues of Washington and Jefferson and other non-Confederate U.S. statues in September 2017, it was truly about hating the United States, and attacking the moral right of the U.S. itself to exist.
Hidden under a veil of protesting the monuments to Confederate racism.
I suspect the French protests are similarly about hatred for the French nation itself, despite fronting to be about other issues.
