French man spotted calmly eating a sandwich amid protests goes viral: ‘The Frenchest thing you’ll see today’

Let them eat sandwiches.

A man who was spotted calmly eating his sandwich while French protesters and police clashed Thursday has gone viral after several Twitter users went wild over the juxtaposition of the scene.

In the video, which was posted to Twitter and has since received nearly 1 million views, protesters can be seen hurling projectiles at members of the French police force who are dressed in full riot gear while a fire burns between the two groups.

The camera then focuses on a seemingly unbothered man sitting on a public bench eating his sandwich completely unfazed while chaos unfolds around him.

Twitter users have gone wild over the crazy scene.

“He didn’t know if it was his last sandwich, so he had to enjoy it,” laughed one Twitter user.

“This man not letting anything or anyone come between him and his ham sandwich,” joked a second user.

“The Frenchest thing you’ll see today,” tweeted a third person.

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“Normal summer activity in France: a person casually eating his sandwich in the midst of anti-police riots,” commented a fourth person.

Several users have compared the clip to a March tweet of two people enjoying a glass of wine in Bordeaux while demonstrators lit fires in the streets close by.

The scenes of chaos come nearly a week of violent unrest after French police reportedly shot and killed a 17-year-old delivery driver named Nahel M.

French police claimed that the 17-year-old, whose surname has not been released, threatened to run the officers down after they pulled him over at a traffic light.

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Lawyers for the deceased’s family slammed the report made by police citing a video that shows two officers leaning into the driver-side window of a yellow car, before one officer can be heard saying that he was “going to get a bullet in the head” of the driver.

Nahel then attempts to flee the scene only to have one of the officers fire toward him and instantly kill him.

The police officer was detained on suspicion of manslaughter, according to the prosecutor’s office in Nanterre.

According to the French government, the killing has sparked a massive protest within the suburb resulting in nearly 1,300 arrests made by police.

In an effort to curb the violence France’s Interior Ministry announced it would deploy 45,000 police officers to the embattled suburb.

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The ongoing violence has also resulted in a staggering amount of property damage with protestors lighting several cars on fire as well as ransacking several stores.

In addition, both the 2024 Paris Olympics aquatic training center and the home of Nanterre’s mayor were victims of the angry mob.

President Emmanuel Macron, who was slammed for being spotted at an Elton John concert during the unrest, has since called for an end to the violence.