In these circumstances, every French politician has known for the last 20 years that France has been living with a growing risk that isolated incidents might coalesce into a critical mass of violence. The task of social workers and police, therefore, is to try to resolve – quickly and discreetly – each particular incident, in order to dampen the revolt.
在这种情况下，20年来所有的法国政治家都清楚：这些孤立的事件累积成大规模暴力冲突的危险性越来越大。正因为如此，社会工作者和警察的任务是迅速妥善地解决每个孤立事件，防止大规模暴力行动的爆发。