The riots that recently swept across France were a result of “failures of migration policy” according to six in ten in the country, despite attempts by the political establishment to gloss over the role of mass migration in the social breakdown in France.
France has banned the sale, possession and transport of all fireworks during the upcoming Bastille Day festivities.
The government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting “pyrotechnic articles” for the 14 July celebrations that mark France’s national day.
The move comes after rioting sparked by last month’s police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M by police in Nanterre.
Fears mount that anger directed at police for Nahel Merzouk’s death will be aimed at the community after a Holocaust memorial was defaced
France’s Jews are on high alert after the fatal police shooting of a teenager sparked days of riots across the country.
The Jewish community fears that the anger directed at police for the death of Nahel Merzouk, who was of North African descent, will be aimed at them, according to local leaders.
It’s no secret that France’s Jews have been exiting for years now.
The anti-Semitism in Europe in general is at a level we have yet to witness in North America. I stress yet.
Years of bad immigration policy are finally seeing their comeuppance.
The inflammable cocktail of immigration, crime, real or alleged racism, hard-handed police tactics, and fiery left-wing politicians is again exploding in France’s face. Never before, however, has the c-word — “civil war” — been bandied about so openly.
France’s Parliament has voted to approve a controversial new clause in the justice reform bill allowing police to remotely turn on cameras and microphones in a host of internet-connected devices for up to six months to surveil suspects.
h/t to Reader I forgot about this my apologies.
‘Dealers told the rioters to stop the violence so that they could resume drug dealing’
It wasn’t President Macron who brought six days of rioting in France to an end, nor the brave bands of mothers who called for calm in some of the inner-city estates. It wasn’t even the presence of 45,000 police and gendarmes on the streets that persuaded the rioters, arsonists, vandals and looters to stand down. Instead, it seems that it was the drug gangs who decided enough is enough. Having so many boys in blue patrolling the streets was bad for business and so gang leaders exerted their influence and ordered the young hoodlums back to their bedrooms.
I have wondered at the sudden de-escalation.
Following the killing of a 17-year-old boy, France is once again the scene of riots that reflect the gulf between traditional France and the suburbs — the result of immigration over the last 40 years.
Nahel Merzouk was killed by police. He was being chased in Nanterre, near Paris, by two policemen on a motorcycle for traffic violations and refusal to stop the car he was driving. After Merzouk was forced to stop the car due to traffic congestion, the policemen approached his car and drew their weapons. Merzouk then drove off, at which point one of the policemen fired his weapon at the car, fatally wounding Merzouk. If Merzouk had followed the orders of the police, he would not have died.
Last week we learned that a woman in a park in Skegness was dragged into the bushes and raped by a 33-year-old male. The man had arrived in the UK illegally on a small boat just 40 days earlier.
Strangely, I can find little anger about this. The story was reported in a couple of papers but there were no fulminating editorials or emergency questions in the House. Jess Phillips hasn’t found room to grandstand about it. Nor have Yvette Cooper, Stella Creasy or any of those other Labour MPs who like to shake their heads in disgust as the Home Secretary explains that the British taxpayers can’t forever foot the hotel bills of illegal migrants.
Radical youth movements are mobilising across the nation
While France’s week of violent riots at first seems a retread of the banlieue uprising of 2005, in one respect it has displayed a new development, under-discussed in Anglophone media, which was absent a generation ago. Namely, the first evidence of a Right-wing counter-mobilisation against the rioters. In provincial cities like Lyon, Angers and Chambéry, groups of masked and hooded youths have appeared, dressed in black and armed with batons and pepper spray, to confront the rioters and the Left-wing demonstrators supporting them.
I saw a couple of videos purporting to show such activity but was unable to vet them. The military has launched an investigation after “rumours” began to circulate that soldiers from a nearby base masked up and delivered bound rioters to the police in Lorient – Riots: the army opens an investigation into the supposed help of marine commandos to the police in Lorient
In six nights, the rioters have already caused over €1 billion worth of damage.
After a week of race riots the likes of which haven’t been seen in France for decades, the urban violence that engulfed more than 220 towns and cities across the country has exacted a colossal human and material cost, leaving thousands of cars, buses, and trams torched, hundreds of buildings destroyed, and hundreds of law enforcement officers injured.
In a report published on Monday, June 3rd, by the Ministry of the Interior that quantified the extent of the material damage and the number of arrests that occurred in the previous six nights, it was revealed that more than 5,600 vehicles were set ablaze, some 1,300 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and more than 3,300 arrests were made across the country.
The riots that have ravaged France in recent days have given Éric Zemmour a second wind. The leader of the right wing Reconquest Party has been on the airwaves and in the newspapers, saying, with a touch of schadenfreude, “I told you so.”
🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen: "At a time when our country has just been ransacked and pillaged, I would like to ask you the question that all French people are asking: what have you done with France?"#Emeutes #Nahel #FranceOnFire #FranceBurning #FranceRiots pic.twitter.com/7IMai3FLNk
— European Insider (@Europa_Insider) July 4, 2023
President Macron has a penchant for talking up the value of greater unity in Europe, going so far last year as to launch a “European Political Community” for no apparent reason other than love of a pointless rendezvous. What the French president failed to bank on is how Europeans’ frustration with entrenched social crises would in the summer of 2023 move the European political needle decisively to the right.
Fontenay aux roses (92) : des véhicules incendiés #emeutes #nahel pic.twitter.com/lRwjdXkPob
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) July 3, 2023
Some American visitors to my house in France have been impressed by a market in a small and beautiful town nearby: the quality of the local produce, the good humor and atmosphere of conviviality, in short, the savoir-vivre of which the market seemed to be so fine an example.
The night before, in the nearest town of any size or importance, rioters had injured three policemen, and another policeman was saved from murder only by his bulletproof vest.
In Strasbourg, France, new trainers are being hurdled from shop window only to be used as a weapon for police 🤦#France #Emeutes #FranceOnFire ##Lyon #Marseille #Nanterre #Montpellier #Strasbourg
pic.twitter.com/ulW0hIMgtz— Ash Kaira (@ashkairaa) July 3, 2023
Fundraising for the family of a French police officer who shot dead a teenager has attracted more than €900,000 (£770,000), far more than a similar campaign for the victim’s relatives.
The biggest fund, set up by Jean Messiha, an independent right-wing populist, has raised €860,000 from just shy of 40,000 donors, and another run by the policeman’s colleagues has raised more than €50,000. About €150,000 (£128,000) has been pledged to the family of Nahel Merzouk, who was shot dead in his car at point-blank range on Tuesday in a killing that prompted six nights of rioting.
“39-45 THE RETURN, BE PREPARED”
🟡 Signalement n°6026
Fontenay aux roses (92) : des véhicules incendiés #emeutes #nahel pic.twitter.com/lRwjdXkPob
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) July 3, 2023
Gazage gratuit d’un passant par le chauffeur d’un fourgon de police, après être monté dangereusement sur le trottoir, avant de repartir sans interpellation.#SaintEtienne Rue Georges Teissier, 29 juin 22h, 🎥 témoin#Nahel #emeutes #ViolencesPolicieres pic.twitter.com/Pxx7GrklvE
— Violences Policières.fr (@violencespolice) July 3, 2023
Riots in France appear to be calming, after five days of violent protests in response to the shooting of teenager Nahel M during a police traffic stop.
More than 150 people were arrested on Sunday night, compared with more than 700 the night before.
Over the last few days, there have been numerous calls for the violence to stop, including from Nahel’s family.
Mayors have called for people to rally outside town halls on Monday to protest the violence and looting.
Marseille : un parking incendié #emeutes #nahel #violencesurbaines pic.twitter.com/dfxBMzvCTB
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) July 3, 2023
#France #FranceRiots #FranceOnFire pic.twitter.com/HouPoGquVO
— King Gob (@_King_Gob_) July 3, 2023
A young firefighter has died in #Paris while trying to extinguish a blaze in an underground car park as the violence in #France continues to rage.#FranceOnFire pic.twitter.com/Y9xwsnYzD0
— HuiHui Chen Miss (@HuiHuiChenMiss) July 3, 2023
