French riots fueled by ultra-left eco-warriors who live off the grid and previously attacked 5G towers: cops

France’s recent riots were fueled by an “ultra-left” faction of eco-warriors who lives an off-the-grid lifestyle in an idyllic village deep in the French countryside, authorities say.Officials in France accuse the extremist group, led by radical Hodei Ciarra Docampo, of helping incite the unrest that tore the country apart last month, leaving more than 1,000 police and protesters injured, leading to 2,700 arrests, and the looting of at least 3,000 stores on one day alone.Ciarra Docampo is personally suspected in the arson attack on the historic city hall in Limoges that gutted the 19th-century landmark — sparking viral images that horrified the world.He has been charged with attempted murder of a public official — punishable by life in prison — after officials said videos showed him fueling the fire by throwing a blazing trash can into the city hall.French authorities are now focusing their investigation on Ciarra Docampo’s family and hangers-on centered in the remote village of Bussiere-Boffy in the Haute-Vienne region of western France, some 200 miles from Paris.The minuscule hamlet of less than 300 people is 50 miles of winding country roads from the nearest train station.Ciarra Docampo’s father, Fernando Ramirez, is a Spanish-born anarchist with connections to the Basque separatist movement, according to French court papers.He and his wife began allowing people with no fixed address to park their vans and even set up yurts on their land for years, to the consternation of many locals.“They don’t ask; they do what they want.That’s the problem with those people,” former Bussiere-Boffy mayor Jean-Paul Barriere told the Wall Street Journal.The family is known for their eccentric anti-development and anti-technology causes, from campaigning against new airports to resisting the installation of smart electric meters, which they say are tools of government control that emit harmful electromagnetic waves.Ramirez was convicted earlier this year of...