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Virus lockdown raises tensions in France’s poorest areas
The Associated Press ^ | April 26, 2020 | By ELAINE GANLEY and NICOLAS GARRIGA

Posted on 04/26/2020 1:52:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Joining more than 1,000 others, Djemba Diatite stood for hours in line to feed her growing family, grateful for handouts of fruits, vegetables and soap. It was her first time accepting charity, but she had no choice. The coronavirus pandemic has turned her small world upside down.

With open air markets closed, supermarket prices skyrocketing, an out-of-work husband, two children to feed and another on the way, Diatite said even tomatoes are now too expensive.

“This is my only solution,” she said, relieved that a local group in her Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois stepped in with help.

Providing food aid might be the most fixable of the longstanding problems in the heavily immigrant housing projects ringing France’s large cities. Leader after leader has tried and failed to find remedies for often-dilapidated and cramped housing, chronic delinquency, a thriving drug trade and, above all, the entrenched discrimination against minority communities that limits their job prospects in France.

Some residents say they felt confined years before the strict coronavirus lockdown measures imposed March 17.

“I feel the social crisis is growing with confinement,” said Clichy-Sous-Bois Mayor Olivier Klein.

“We see numerous people in need, urgently, in a way we’ve never seen,” he told France Info radio. “In these tense neighborhoods, the smallest spark can trigger still more tension.”

Alongside the food crisis, there has been scattered violence, with youths targeting French police in confrontations that end in clouds of tear gas but no known injuries, including in Clichy-sous-Bois. The town is where filmmaker Ladj Ly shot his Oscar-nominated modern police drama “Les Misérables.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; france; globalism; islam; migrants; oneworldorder

1 posted on 04/26/2020 1:52:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sometimes you don’t even have to look at where the article is coming from. You just know :-)

Well sometimes it could be one of three or four. But this one was pretty easy


2 posted on 04/26/2020 2:13:38 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

France’s muzzie No Go zones, will take care of itself. Couldn’t care less.


3 posted on 04/26/2020 2:50:11 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Virus lockdown raises tensions in France’s poorest Muslim areas
4 posted on 04/26/2020 3:04:35 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: duckman; Roman_War_Criminal; SaveFerris
Muslim women who cover their faces find greater acceptance among coronavirus masks – ‘Nobody is giving me dirty looks’

The globalists and COVID nannies have turned us all into Burka wearing slaves.

I don't even want to go out any more because of the mandate in stores to "mask up."

The panic has the added effect of turning some of more asinine citizens into complete jerks. On Friday, I saw a man lose it and scream at a woman at a pizza takeout restaurant because he thought she violated the "6 feet" circle (and yes, she was wearing mask).

The globalists want to punish everyone with the mask forever. They are saying we will never be allowed to go to stadiums, auditoriums, or theaters ever again unless we have their evil ID2020 to further enslave and track us all.


5 posted on 04/26/2020 3:12:12 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The first time she accepted charity was when she stepped off the boat into the waiting arms of dhimmi France. It’s all downhill from there...for France


6 posted on 04/26/2020 4:53:09 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The good news is that if you have the full burkha you don't need a mask.
7 posted on 04/26/2020 5:23:54 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘Djemba Diatite’...

...a very French sounding name. Harkens back to the Revolution!

Bonaparte, Marat, Robespierre, Diatite...

...all famous names of the Revolution!

</sarc>


8 posted on 04/26/2020 6:53:06 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
an out-of-work husband, two children to feed and another on the way.

This is what the French government has imported by the millions to replace its native-born population. They will out-breed, and over-run France in time, and eventually take over the entire country.

Pat Buchanan was not wrong when he states: "Demographics is Destiny."

Wise man, he.

9 posted on 04/26/2020 7:40:04 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby)
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