French soccer icon Emmanuel Petit condemns arson and looting, warns Macron to 'protect honest citizens'

French soccer legend Emmanuel Petit ripped into the violent rioters wrecking cities across France, telling the lawless agitators who hate the country to "go back from where you came."

The 1998 World Cup winner fired up Instagram Sunday to vent his "profound deep anger" after protests turned into total madness with torched cars, looted stores, and trashed streets. More than 2,400 rioters have already been locked up nationwide, Fox News Digital reported.

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What started as protests over school policy and living costs quickly turned into complete street warfare over the weekend. Masked mobs smashed up store windows and set cars on fire, forcing riot police to unload tear gas in Paris and Marseille while French President Emmanuel Macron admitted he felt "both anger and shame."

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The ex-Arsenal star didn't dance around it, unleashing on the lawless mobs tearing through neighborhoods.

"It's thugs because their cowardice is what unites them," he blasted. "They destroy everything, they burn everything, they break everything, they plunder, they steal, they hurt, they aggress, they insult."

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He contrasted the criminal mobs on the streets with honest, hard-working taxpayers who are fed up with runaway inflation and crushing government policies.

"You shouldn't mix up the people who manifested yesterday, and I understand them strongly because I too am more than fed up of being pressed like a lemon on a fiscal plan," Petit said, defending working-class families who rise early, pay taxes, and follow the law while being abandoned by the state.

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Petit laid down the law on immigration, welcoming foreigners who respect France while telling agitators who hate the nation that nobody wants them around.

"I love my country, I love all foreigners who love my country and who want to integrate," Petit said.

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"But all the others, starting with the French who do not wish precisely that France continues to be what it is, go back from where you came, we don't need you," he warned.

Petit went even further, directly targeting homegrow