French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melanchon:

Non-violent methods are what allow us to bring people together.

If we don't use these kinds of methods, we don't bring people together. We scare them.

What I just said does not mean to stay away from the movement, with which we are 10,000% in solidarity.

But we act according to a strategy, and we refuse to have other people's strategies imposed on us when those people will not take responsibility for the consequences of what they started.