France: Decomposing in Front of Our Eyes

Gatestone Institute ^ | 7/12/16 | Yves Mamou

[Eleutheria5]

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What is reality in France today?

Violence. It is spreading. Not just terrorist attacks; pure gang violence. It instills a growing feeling of insecurity in hospitals, at schools, in the streets -- even in the police. The media does not dare to say that this violence is coming mainly from Muslim gangs -- "youths," as they call the in the French media, to avoid naming who they are. A climate of civil war, however, is spreading visibly in the police, schools, hospitals and politics.

The Police

The most jolting evidence of this malaise was to see more than 500 French police officers demonstrating with police cars and motorcycles on the night of October 17, without the backing of labor unions, without authorization, on the Champs Elysées in Paris. According to the daily, Le Figaro, "the Interior Ministry was in panic," frightened by a possible coup: "Police blocked access to the Avenue Marigny, which runs beside the Presidential Palace and overlooks the Place Beauvau."

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The main cause of their anger seems primarily the violence often directed against police, and terrorist attacks. On the terrorist level, two policemen were stabbed to death in Magnanville in June 2016 by a Muslim extremist, Larossi Aballa. ... May, police unions demonstrated in the streets of Paris to protest "anti-police hatred."

This autumn, the last straw was an attack on a police patrol in the Paris suburb of Viry-Châtillon. Four officers were injured when a group of around 15 "youths" (Muslim gang-members) swarmed their cars in the town and hurled rocks and firebombs at them. Two policemen were badly burned; one had to be placed in an induced coma. The same scenario took place a few days later: a police patrol was ambushed in another no-go zone in the "sensitive" area of Val-Fourré.

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[Mercat]

By yearly ride do you mean bicycle? Or motorcycle. We saw a lot of both. Not so many beggars at the turnouts but it was late in the season. Still saw a lot in front of churches in the cities.

[Mollypitcher1]

I agree. There is plenty to correct, but Paris is not the hell hole of the earth as many would have us believe. I always spend time in Paris, coming and going, and enjoy it thoroughly.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I am grateful to have had the supreme joy of having visited Paris twice. Never again now.

[Eleutheria5]

F@#$ with people long enough, they f@#$ back.

[Eleutheria5]

But Barry says one can’t let terrorists change who you are. So keep on hanging out in bistros and writing poems, Frenchies. Sooner or later smelly cheese and dry red wines will triumph./s

[Eleutheria5]

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