French Burn Down Their Own Cities After Humiliating 78-4 Loss To Samoa In Rugby League World Cup

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Hundreds of shops have been looted and 2,400 people have been arrested in France as nationwide protests turn violent across France this week.

President Macron has urgently called for a distinction between protesters with legitimate demands and opportunistic looters who are causing hundreds of millions of euros worth of damage to both public buildings and local small businesses.

The Interior ministry has confirmed that upwards of 550,000 people have attending such protests, as the French people finally decide they 'have had enough' - and begin demonstrations aimed at sending a message to their government.

And the message is clear: The people of France will not sit back and watch their national rugby league side get pumped 78-4 by a small pacific nation of 221,000 people.

This is not the first time that the French have endured a crushing defeat at the hands of Samoa on the rugby league world cup stage. When the two teams last met at the 2022 tournament, Samoa won 62-4.

However, with the margin now blowing out to 74 points, the French people are in the streets demanding that their government invest in the grassroots level of rugby league football.

The Les Tricolores is made up almost exclusively of Super League players who predominantly hail from the Pyrénées-Orientales region of rural Southern France - plus a couple of forklift drivers from North Queensland who had a grandmother born in Noumea.

They were thrashed by a Toa Samoa side made up entirely of NRL stars who are based in either Australian or New Zealand.

The pure carnage of this Friday night World Cup opener has forced the French to ask some tough questions of their government, who they say have been ignoring the will of the people.

One local Frenchman says the protests will continue until the political class decide that rugby league is as worthy investment as the nation's richest retirees - all of whom have access to exorbitant pensions as well as full state benefits.

"Ve must invest in le grassroots" says local protestor, Pierre Bernard - as he desecrates the Arc de Triomphe with spray paint.

"Ve vill continue to le protest until ve hav someving similar to Small Talk with le Big Marn"