Does the OP article refer to this specific incident? Or is this a larger phenomenon?
It refers to this specific incident (the OP article is even mentioned at the end of the French Wikipedia page[0]).
[0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_du_8_d%C3%A9cembre_202...
[0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_du_8_d%C3%A9cembre_202... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident