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How drug cartels are turning France into ‘the new Mexico’

Drug menu – France

Turf wars between rival trafficking gangs claimed 110 lives last year, and French families are despairing at the spiral of violence consuming their young

The murder of 15-year-old Azad Budak was filmed by a passer-by and posted on Telegram, an encrypted social media platform. Almost immediately, the video of him lying on the ground with a bullet in his chest spread through Besançon, the eastern French city where he lived. His two brothers, aged 11 and 16 at the time, saw the images, as did his neighbours, who phoned his parents to say what had happened.

“I couldn’t walk, talk or think,” said Sema Budak, his mother. “He was a baby to me.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, Drugs, France

How many more knife attacks can France take?

Each day in France there are 120 knife attacks. On Saturday, one such incident resulted in the death of 14-year-old Elias as he left his football training in central Paris. He was stabbed after refusing to surrender his mobile phone. A 17-year-old has admitted the killing to police.

France’s Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, expressed his horror at the death of Elias, and reiterated his determination to make France ‘a country where parents no longer have to fear seeing their child murdered for nothing’. He added that it ‘will be a long and difficult road’ and will require an end to the culture of excuses which ‘has plunged some of our young people into a deep sense of impunity’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Watch How *Acting* President Donald Trump Dominates Macron in Visit to France

We may as well drop “President-elect” Donald Trump, which I’m still not tired of writing, and start using “Acting President Donald Trump,” because while doddering old Joe Biden is falling asleep in his chair in Africa, Donald Trump is out meeting with world leaders – and they are anxiously awaiting their turn to meet with him.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDonald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, France

Live: French PM Michel Barnier’s government faces collapse in no-confidence vote

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier faces a no-confidence vote on Wednesday prompted by budget disputes that could spell the end of his administration and plunge the country into uncharted waters. If the motion succeeds, it will be the first time a French government has been brought down this way in more than 60 years. Follow our liveblog to see how today’s events unfold.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inFrance

How France is turning into a ‘Mexicanized narco-state’ with drug wars fought across the country

Rampant drug-fuelled violence in France is turning the country into what has been dubbed a ‘Mexicanized narco-state’ by a leading politician.

Narco wars are being fought across the country and have seen teenagers and children shot, stabbed and burned alive, gang kingpins broken out of custody, and cocaine washed up on beaches.

France’s new conservative interior minister recently declared war on the operating gangs after a 15-year-old boy was caught in the crossfires and killed in a massive brawl and gunfight in Poitiers, on November 1.

h/t kiki9

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

France at ‘tipping point’ after shoot-out involving ‘400 gang members’

Minister says ‘choice is between general mobilisation or Mexicanisation of the country’ after gunfight leaves teenager fighting for life

France has reached a “tipping point” on drug-related violence, the country’s hardline interior minister warned on Friday, after hundreds of people took part in a massive shoot-out.

The gunfight, which left a teenager fighting for his life and four others seriously wounded, erupted overnight in the western city of Poitiers.

Police intervened at around 10.45pm after shots were fired outside a restaurant in the Couronneries district of the city and found the first casualty on the ground.

From Fdesouche – Poitiers (86): five injured in a shooting. Hundreds of people involved, a 15-year-old boy hit in the head. It is believed to be an inter-ethnic brawl between West Indians and North Africans against a backdrop of drug trafficking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity", France, WTF?

Dear Europe: happy submission!

In France alone, currently, more than 410 new mosques are being built.

It is difficult not to give in to pessimism, as the great Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, author of “2084”, does when he says this week: “Islam is preparing to conquer France”.

The environmentalist municipality of the city of Strasbourg, which houses one of the two wings of the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe, has decided to turn off the cathedral’s lights at 11 pm “to save energy and money”.

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

French Outrage at Tipping Point After Student’s Rape and Murder

The news of the rape and murder of 19-year-old Philippine on the outskirts of Paris, involving a Moroccan illegal immigrant who had already been convicted by the courts and was facing deportation, exacerbates the anger of French citizens who see the repeated and culpable failings of the justice system leading to bloody, yet avoidable, tragedies.

The chain of events that led to the death of Philippine, a 19-year-old Catholic student, highlights a dramatic chain of responsibility that has already been observed in similar cases.

The Fdesouche website recalls the main stages in the life of Taha O., the 22-year-old Moroccan arrested in Switzerland on suspicion of Philippine’s murder. 

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

Previously Convicted Illegal Immigrant Under Deportation Orders Arrested for Vicious Paris Killing

At a time when the new French government is trying to find its way on security and immigration issues, a new tragedy has shaken French public opinion: the murder of Philippine, a 19-year-old Catholic student who was savagely killed and buried in the Bois de Boulogne, just outside Paris. The suspect is a Moroccan illegal immigrant with an OQTF (obligation to leave French territory), who had already been convicted of rape.

The violent crime, which occurred late on Friday, September 20th, is accompanied by a sense of déjà vu.

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

France to expel illegal immigrants who have ‘broken in’ to country

France’s new interior minister has pledged to expel illegal immigrants who have “broken in” to the country amid moves aimed at toughening law and order.

Bruno Retailleau also called for a coalition of willing EU countries to compel the European Commission to tighten its immigration laws.

His pledges for a harsher response to asylum claims, violence against police, radical Islam and drug trafficking were said to reflect the growing influence of Marine Le Pen’s hard-Right National Rally (RN).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, France

France at War with Itself

Since the results were announced of France’s July 2024 legislative elections, President Emmanuel Macron has been unable to build a majority in the National Assembly, which appears more divided than at any time in the history of what the French call “the Fifth Republic”.

The elections produced three blocs, all of which appear to hate each other: the left, coalescing around Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left La France Insoumise (“France Unbowed”), Macron’s centrist Renaissance party, and Marine Le Pen’s right-wing Rassemblement National (National Rally).

Three factors seem to favor France’s slide towards an open or latent form of even greater internal conflict.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

‘France killed my husband’ – the rising anger of the gendarmes

A gendarme was killed in France on Monday evening when a driver ran him over at a routine roadside checkpoint in Provence.

The driver of the BMW was an intoxicated 39-year-old from Cape Verde who during his time in France has racked up a lengthy criminal record including ten convictions, two for drunk driving.

On Wednesday the wife of 54-year-old Éric Comyn paid tribute to him at a service attended by local dignitaries and members of the gendarmerie. She described a devoted father of two teenage children, who was soon to retire after 30 years’ service.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", France

‘Jews are beginning to lose hope for a future in France’ – interview

In the wake of the La Grande-Motte Synagogue attack and political turmoil, France Central Consistory vice president and Marseilles Consistory president Michel Cohen Tenoudji expressed concern to The Jerusalem Post about the future of French Jewry and fate of the French Republic.

After the August 24 arson terrorist attack on the Beth Yaacov synagogue in southern France, the Jewish community was shocked and outraged, said Cohen Tenoudji. The attack by the 33-year-old Algerian man, which wounded a police officer, amplified fears about rising antisemitism in the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West