Well, it seems that not only France, but any government, institution, media, corporation, declared war on the cryptocurrencies.
Two explanations:
1) they are scared and try to destroy cryptomarket
2) the want to profit, so they manipulate the market to make price fall to buy cheap.
We'll see.
You are right, and these are not the only items on your list, why some countries react that way. But we must deal with our business and believe in the future of the crypto currency, because there are countries that on the contrary support and introduce new technologies related to crypto-currencies.
Like Japan. Regulations are good but banning and considering it illegal will only make the market go wilder. Destroying its market is never going to work because it if will, it would have been destroyed back when BTC wasn't yet known. No central institution can declare its value to be zero there its not going to work even if they all ban it.