There're directors of French teams that have encouraged people to take to the streets ... elbow to elbow.
It begs the question of how much cowardice is required for a crowd of Frenchmen to gang up on a cyclist, and what the integrity of the sport of cycling will suffer at the hands of the French.
On the other hand it is a non-issue, because, seriously, how much a55 can a bunch of Frenchmen kick anyways?