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Medical migration is crippling France’s healthcare system

Doctors are sounding the alarm. Across France patients are unable to get appointments and wait times in hospital emergency departments have been known to stretch to more than two days. In Nantes, such was the backlog that four people died in emergency rooms over just a three-week period while waiting to be admitted.

This is a system stretched far beyond capacity. France’s hospitals are buckling, not because of a pandemic or a natural disaster, but some say because the country offers free, lifelong medical care, and often residency, to anyone from abroad with a serious illness.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France

Paris cafés caught cheating tourists with cheap wine

Cafés and bistros in Paris are cheating customers by replacing quality wine with lower-cost alternatives when they serve by the glass, and tourists in particular are on the losing end of the swaps.

Few customers notice the difference when a premium chablis ordered from the wine menu and selling at about €9 a glass is swapped for a sauvignon costing about €5, an investigation by Le Parisien newspaper has found.

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Macron has let an epidemic of violence grip France

These have been terrible days in France. On Thursday, a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death and several of her classmates wounded at a private school in Nantes. It was an attack of singular ferocity. The victim, who was stabbed 57 times, was killed by a fellow pupil, a boy her own age. According to police, he had no ‘clear motive’ for his crime.

On Friday a 20-year-old, named by police as Olivier H, walked into a mosque in southern France and told Aboubakar, a 24-year-old of Malian origin, that he would like to pray. Aboubakar, who performed odd jobs in the mosque, led Olivier into the prayer room and together they knelt. Olivier then produced a knife and stabbed Aboubakar to death. As he filmed the death throes of his victim, the killer insulted Allah and stated his intention to kill again. A huge manhunt was launched, but late on Sunday night Olivier handed himself in to police in Florence, Italy.

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Inside France’s lawless prisons, where inmates rule by fear

The arsonist rode into the car park at Valence prison in southeast France on an electric scooter after nightfall on April 14.

After looking at the 16 vehicles there, he targeted two, both of them owned by guards on night duty. The intruder, who was masked and hooded, doused them in petrol, set them alight and filmed himself.

He did not seem to be in any hurry, spending 15 minutes at the site. The police, though, were even slower. By the time they arrived he had ridden away.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France

France: Multiple prisons attacked by gangs wielding Kalashnikovs

Prisons across France have been targeted with gunfire and arson in co-ordinated attacks that ministers have said were a response to a crackdown on drug dealers.

At least nine jails were targeted along with a training centre for prison officers in a carefully planned operation designed to strike fear into staff without causing injury, prompting an investigation by antiterrorism officials.

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Hamas Terror Group Expresses Gratitude for European Support

Having done plenty to irritate his supposed allies in Israel—in particular by undermining efforts to free the remaining hostages—French President Emmanuel Macron has found new friends in Hamas.

The terror group on Thursday praised the president’s proposal to recognise a Palestinian state, in the fanciful hope of getting Iran to recognise Israel, telling AFP this was an “important step.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", France, Hamas

The Enemy Within: France’s Growing Terrorist Threat

In 70% of the foiled attacks, the would-be perpetrator was under the age of 21.

A terrorist attack was foiled earlier this week in northern France, involving a 19-year-old man who claimed to be acting on behalf of Daesh—the Islamic State. No fewer than six attacks have been foiled in recent months. For the minister of the interior, the real danger today is no longer an external attack but the actions of a fringe of radicalised French youth.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump

On the rainy Grands Boulevards in Paris on Friday, the branches of McDonald’s and KFC were doing brisk business.

There was little sign of “le boycott” – a movement among French customers to reject American brands and products made in the US, in protest at Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and anti-Europe rhetoric.

A poll, which splashed the front page of the Libération newspaper last week, found that more than six out of 10 French people support shunning American products, and almost one in three are already avoiding them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance, USA, WTF?

Marine Le Pen Is Banned From Elections For 5 Years

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president in 2027 after a court found her guilty of a vast system of embezzlement of European parliament funds and banned her from running for public office with immediate effect.

The decision was a political earthquake for Le Pen, the leader of the far-right anti-immigration National Rally (RN) party, who had hoped to mount a fourth campaign to become president.

Le Pen, 56, said before the verdict that that any immediate ban on running for election would be like a “political death sentence” and that judges had “the power of life or death over our movement”. She is likely to immediately appeal against the verdict.

h/t DM and XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance, Marine Le Pen

Is civil war coming for France?

The Republic can’t escape colonialism

Today marks the moment, 63 years ago, that France finally ceded control of Algeria. But speak to many in both countries and the war might have finished yesterday, with tensions between Paris and Algiers now higher than they’ve been for years. Consider, among other things, France’s recent decision to re-examine the “special” pact of 1968 that made it easier for Algerians to settle in France, with the Quai d’Orsay also presenting its former colony with a list of nationals it wants to send back home. Algiers reacted indignantly — but Algerian terrorists have attacked several French citizens over recent years, while many French Arabs continue to fiercely resent the land they call home.

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France preparing ‘survival manual’ for every household, report says

The French government is reportedly planning to send a “survival manual” to every household in the country with instructions on how to prepare for an “imminent threat” including armed conflict, a health crisis or a natural disaster.

If approved by François Bayrou, the prime minister, the 20-page booklet will be sent to households before the summer, French media reported.

It will be divided into three parts with advice on how to protect “yourself and those around you”, what to do if a threat is imminent – with a list of emergency numbers, radio channels and a reminder to close doors and windows if the threat is nuclear – and details of how to get involved in defending your community, including signing up for reserve units or firefighting groups.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Two French Ghosts and President Macron

As France’s President Emmanuel Macron casts himself as Europe’s new leader in a joust against US President Donald Trump, he might do well to have a look at two great Frenchmen who advised against haste and hubris.

The first is that paragon of diplomacy, Talleyrand, who managed to survive four regimes, including one created by a bloody revolution and another that set Europe on fire before drowning it in blood.

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UK: Foreigners convicted of nearly a quarter of sex crimes

Foreigners are convicted of up to a quarter of sex crimes, according to the first data analysis of its kind.

Data from the Ministry of Justice, obtained under freedom of information laws, show that 15 per cent of sexual offences, including rape, were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023.

A further eight per cent of convictions were recorded as unknown nationalities.

France: 86% increase in sexual violence on French public transport in 10 years, with mass immigration fueling the rise

7 out of 10 Paris women say they have been victims of sexual violence on public transport

H/T kiki9

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, France, UK

France: Muslim on terrorist watch list yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ in knife attack killing police officer and inflicting wounds on multiple people

A police officer has died and four more have been injured after an armed man, who was heard yelling Allahu Akbhar, attacked several people at a French market.

The bloodbath unfolded at a market in the eastern city of Mulhouse, on the border of Germany, on Saturday afternoon when witnesses heard the cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’.

The officers were slashed repeatedly by the man – an Algerian aged 37 who was on a terrorist watch list and faced deportation.

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France’s churches are burning – and no one seems to care

Church Arson France – Parish of St. Paul in Corbeil-Essonnes

France’s churches are under attack, yet the media and political establishment are pretending not to notice. Last year, we saw blazes at historic churches in Rouen, Saint-Omer and Poitiers – each one another grim statistic in an escalating crisis. For years, we’ve seen Christian places of worship targeted in acts of arson and vandalism. Yet, until now, official confirmation of the scale of the problem has been curiously absent. That has changed. The French territorial intelligence service has reported a 30 per cent increase in criminal church fires in 2024. That’s not a handful of isolated incidents – it’s a surge. And a deeply troubling one at that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, France