Michael Ejercito
2016-12-07 14:12:41 UTC
France: Decomposing in Front of Our Eyes
by Yves Mamou
December 7, 2016 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9174/france-decomposing
Four officers were injured (two badly burned) when around 15 "youths"
(Muslim gang-members) swarmed their cars and hurled rocks and firebombs at
them. Police were aggrieved when the minister of interior called the
attackers "little wild ones." Police and opposition politicians replied that
the attackers were not "little wild ones but criminals who attacked police
to kill."
Two students at a vocational training school in Calais attacked a teacher,
and one fractured the teacher's jaw and several teeth -- because the teacher
had asked one of the students to get back to work.
"This is a warning. These young people did not attack the school by chance;
they wanted to attack the institution, to attack the State." — Yacine, 21, a
student at the University of Paris II.
The riot, which lasted for four nights, broke out after the arrest of a
driver who did not stop when asked to by a policeman.
This revolt of one pillar of French society, the police, was the biggest
that ever happened in modern France. Yet, virtually no one in France's
mainstream media covered the event.
"Everything that represents state institutions (...) is now subjected to
violence based on essentially sectarian and sometimes ethnic excesses,
fueled by an incredible hatred of our country. We must be blind or
unconscious not to feel concern for national cohesion". — Thibaud de
Montbrial, lawyer and expert on terrorism.
France will elect a new president in May 2017. Politicians are already
campaigning and debating about deficits, welfare recipients, GDP growth, and
so on, but they look like puppets disconnected from the real country.
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."
On October 18, when Jean-Marc Falcone, director-general of National Police,
met the leaders of the protest, he was surrounded by hundreds of police
officers urging him to resign.
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. This spring, more than 300 police officers and gendarmes
were injured by demonstrators. In 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.
Four police officers were recently injured (two badly burned) when a group
of around 15 "youths" (Muslim gang-members) swarmed their cars and hurled
rocks and firebombs at them, in the Paris suburb of Viry-Châtillon. (Image
source: Line Press video screenshot)
Police were also aggrieved by Bernard Cazeneuve, the minister of interior,
who called the attackers "sauvageons" ("little wild ones"). Police and
opposition politicians replied that the attackers were not "little wild ones
but criminals who attacked police to kill."
"Police are seen as an occupying force," declared Patrice Ribeiro of the
Synergie Officiers police commanders' union. "It is not surprising that
violence is spiking."
On October 18, Le Figaro launched an online poll online with one question:
"Do you approve the protest by policemen?" Ninety percent of the 50,000
respondents answered "yes."
Since then, police demonstrations have spread to other cities. More than a
month after the start of the discontent, police officers were still
protesting in every big city. On November 24, two hundred police officers
demonstrated in Paris between Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe,
to express their "anger." Police in civilian clothes, some wearing orange
armbands, some hidden under a scarf or hood, supported by citizens, gathered
in the evening at the Place de la Concorde, before walking the length of the
Champs Elysée up to the Arc de Triomphe, where they formed a human chain
around the monument and sang La Marseillaise (France's national anthem).
This revolt of one pillar of French society, the police, was the biggest
that ever happened in modern France. Yet, virtually no one in France's
mainstream media covered the event.
Schools
Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis close to Paris): The headmaster of the
Hélène-Boucher training school was attacked on October 17 by several
individuals outside the school. Some "youths" were attacking the building
with firebombs, and when the headmaster tried to calm the situation, one of
the "youths" answered with blows. Fifty unidentified people were involved in
the incident. This was the third episode of violence to occur in the
vicinity. Four days earlier, two vehicles were torched.
One month later, the daily Le Monde held a meeting with several students,
The goal of this meeting was to try to understand the cause of the violence
in in Tremblay. Yacine, 21, a student at the University of Paris II, said:
"This is a warning. These young people did not attack the school by chance;
they wanted to attack the institution, to attack the State."
Argenteuil (Val d'Oise, suburb of Paris): A teacher at the Paul Langevin
primary school, was beaten up in the street, on October 17, while leading
children back to school from tennis courts a kilometer from the school.
After hearing the teacher raise his voice at a child, two young men stopped
their car, told the teacher he was a "racist" and beat him in front of the
children. According to Le Parisien, one of the attackers justified his
actions by accusing the professor of "racism". "You are not the master,"
said the man. "The only Master is Allah".
Colomiers (Toulouse, south of France). A physical-education teacher was
assaulted by a student on October 17, when the teacher tried to stop the
student from leaving the school through a prohibited exit.
Calais (Pas-de-Calais): Two students at a vocational training school in
Calais attacked a teacher, and one fractured the teacher's jaw and several
teeth on October 14, according the local paper, Nord-Littoral. The students
attacked the electrical engineering teacher because he had asked one of the
students to get back to work.
Saint-Denis (Seine Saint-Denis, suburb of Paris): On October 13, a school
headmaster and his deputy were beaten by a vocational student who had been
reprimanded for arriving late.
Strasbourg: A mathematics teacher was brutally attacked on October 17 at the
Orbelin school. The headmaster of the institution told France Bleu that a
"youth," who is not a student at the school, had beaten the teacher. This
was not the first time that the "youth" had entered the building. Earlier,
when the teacher asked him to leave his class, the "youth" delivered several
blows to the teacher's face before fleeing.
All these attackers were not terrorists, but like Islamic terrorists, they
apparently wanted to destroy "attack the institution, to attack the State."
Hospitals
On October 16, fifteen individuals accompanying a patient sowed terror in
the emergency department of Gustave Dron Hospital in Tourcoing, according to
La Voix du Nord. A doctor was severely beaten; another pulled by the hair.
Doctors and nurses told the newspaper they were still in shock. Said a
nurse:
"Ten people forced their way into the heart of the ER. The doctors asked
them to leave... When everything stopped, I realized that the ER was
ravaged, patients terrorized, relatives of patients crying."
The attackers were from the district of La Bourgogne, an area essentially
populated with North African immigrants. Three people were arrested.
In the same area of La Bourgogne, there was a riot on October 4. Fourteen
cars were burned and 12 people arrested. The riot, which lasted for four
nights, broke out after the arrest of a driver who did not stop when asked
to by a policeman.
Politics
On October 14, Nadine Morano, deputy of the opposition party Les
Républicains, tried physically to prevent an Algerian businessman, Rachid
Nekkaz, from entering the Center of Public Finance of Toul, in the east of
France. Nekkaz is known for paying fines of Muslim women arrested because
they were wearing a burqa in public, banned by law since October 2010.
Police came to protect the right of Mr. Nekkaz to pay the fine. An amendment
to the finance law is currently under discussion to block and punish
practices, like those of Nekkaz, that circumvent the law.
President François Hollande is currently under fire after the publication of
a book, A President Should Not Say That... In it, he is reported to have
said, "France has a problem with Islam," and "there are too many migrants in
France" -- remarks Hollande claims he never made. Another quote in the book
that Hollande denies saying:
"We cannot continue to have migrants who arrive without control, in the
context of the attacks... The secession of territories (no go zones)? How
can we avoid a partition? Because it is still what is going to happen."
President Hollande spends his time apologizing for things he never said, but
should have said because they are true.
French People
French Chinese: The French Chinese live in the same suburbs as Muslims and
are attacked and harassed, to the general indifference of police.
As crime against community members has spiraled, about 50,000 ethnic Chinese
staged a protest march in Paris on September 4, after the fatal mugging of a
Chinese tailor.
The protesters, all of them wearing white T-shirts reading "Security for
All" and waving French flags, rallied at the Place de la République. They
had organized the demonstration by themselves and were not supported by the
traditional "human rights" groups, which prefer to help Muslim migrants.
Public Opinion: In January 2016, Cevipof, a think tank of the Paris
Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), released its seventh Barometer
of Political Trust, a poll published annually to measure the values of
democracy in the country, and based on interviews with 2074 people:
What is your current state of mind? Listlessness 31%, Gloom 29%, Mistrust
28%, Fear: 10%
Do you trust government? Not much 58%, not at all 32%
Do you trust lawmakers? Not much 39%, not at all 16%%
Do you trust the president? Not much 32%; not at all 38%
Do politicians care about what the people think? Not much 42%, not at all
46%
How democracy is working in France? Not well 43%, not well at all 24%
Do you trust political parties? Not much 47%, not at all 40%
Do you trust the media? Not much 48% not at all 27 %
What do you feel about politics? Distrust 39%; disgust 33%, boredom 8%
What do you feel about politicians? Disappointment 54%; disgust 20%
Corruption of politicians? Yes 76%
Too many migrants? Yes, plus tend to agree: 65%
Islam is a threat? Yes, plus tend to agree: 58%
Proud to be French? Yes 79%
What this poll shows is the gap between people and politicians has never
been so vast.
Thibaud de Montbrial, lawyer and expert on terrorism, declared on October 19
to Le Figaro:
The term "dislocation" of French society seems appropriate. Violence against
police, hospitals, attacks that multiply against schools and teachers... are
attacks against pillars of the ruling domain. In other words, everything
that represents state institutions (...) is now subjected to violence based
on essentially sectarian and sometimes ethnic excesses, fueled by an
incredible hatred of our country. We must be blind or unconscious not to
feel concern for national cohesion."
Yves Mamou, based in France, worked for two decades as a journalist for Le
Monde.
by Yves Mamou
December 7, 2016 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9174/france-decomposing
Four officers were injured (two badly burned) when around 15 "youths"
(Muslim gang-members) swarmed their cars and hurled rocks and firebombs at
them. Police were aggrieved when the minister of interior called the
attackers "little wild ones." Police and opposition politicians replied that
the attackers were not "little wild ones but criminals who attacked police
to kill."
Two students at a vocational training school in Calais attacked a teacher,
and one fractured the teacher's jaw and several teeth -- because the teacher
had asked one of the students to get back to work.
"This is a warning. These young people did not attack the school by chance;
they wanted to attack the institution, to attack the State." — Yacine, 21, a
student at the University of Paris II.
The riot, which lasted for four nights, broke out after the arrest of a
driver who did not stop when asked to by a policeman.
This revolt of one pillar of French society, the police, was the biggest
that ever happened in modern France. Yet, virtually no one in France's
mainstream media covered the event.
"Everything that represents state institutions (...) is now subjected to
violence based on essentially sectarian and sometimes ethnic excesses,
fueled by an incredible hatred of our country. We must be blind or
unconscious not to feel concern for national cohesion". — Thibaud de
Montbrial, lawyer and expert on terrorism.
France will elect a new president in May 2017. Politicians are already
campaigning and debating about deficits, welfare recipients, GDP growth, and
so on, but they look like puppets disconnected from the real country.
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."
On October 18, when Jean-Marc Falcone, director-general of National Police,
met the leaders of the protest, he was surrounded by hundreds of police
officers urging him to resign.
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. This spring, more than 300 police officers and gendarmes
were injured by demonstrators. In 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.
Four police officers were recently injured (two badly burned) when a group
of around 15 "youths" (Muslim gang-members) swarmed their cars and hurled
rocks and firebombs at them, in the Paris suburb of Viry-Châtillon. (Image
source: Line Press video screenshot)
Police were also aggrieved by Bernard Cazeneuve, the minister of interior,
who called the attackers "sauvageons" ("little wild ones"). Police and
opposition politicians replied that the attackers were not "little wild ones
but criminals who attacked police to kill."
"Police are seen as an occupying force," declared Patrice Ribeiro of the
Synergie Officiers police commanders' union. "It is not surprising that
violence is spiking."
On October 18, Le Figaro launched an online poll online with one question:
"Do you approve the protest by policemen?" Ninety percent of the 50,000
respondents answered "yes."
Since then, police demonstrations have spread to other cities. More than a
month after the start of the discontent, police officers were still
protesting in every big city. On November 24, two hundred police officers
demonstrated in Paris between Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe,
to express their "anger." Police in civilian clothes, some wearing orange
armbands, some hidden under a scarf or hood, supported by citizens, gathered
in the evening at the Place de la Concorde, before walking the length of the
Champs Elysée up to the Arc de Triomphe, where they formed a human chain
around the monument and sang La Marseillaise (France's national anthem).
This revolt of one pillar of French society, the police, was the biggest
that ever happened in modern France. Yet, virtually no one in France's
mainstream media covered the event.
Schools
Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis close to Paris): The headmaster of the
Hélène-Boucher training school was attacked on October 17 by several
individuals outside the school. Some "youths" were attacking the building
with firebombs, and when the headmaster tried to calm the situation, one of
the "youths" answered with blows. Fifty unidentified people were involved in
the incident. This was the third episode of violence to occur in the
vicinity. Four days earlier, two vehicles were torched.
One month later, the daily Le Monde held a meeting with several students,
The goal of this meeting was to try to understand the cause of the violence
in in Tremblay. Yacine, 21, a student at the University of Paris II, said:
"This is a warning. These young people did not attack the school by chance;
they wanted to attack the institution, to attack the State."
Argenteuil (Val d'Oise, suburb of Paris): A teacher at the Paul Langevin
primary school, was beaten up in the street, on October 17, while leading
children back to school from tennis courts a kilometer from the school.
After hearing the teacher raise his voice at a child, two young men stopped
their car, told the teacher he was a "racist" and beat him in front of the
children. According to Le Parisien, one of the attackers justified his
actions by accusing the professor of "racism". "You are not the master,"
said the man. "The only Master is Allah".
Colomiers (Toulouse, south of France). A physical-education teacher was
assaulted by a student on October 17, when the teacher tried to stop the
student from leaving the school through a prohibited exit.
Calais (Pas-de-Calais): Two students at a vocational training school in
Calais attacked a teacher, and one fractured the teacher's jaw and several
teeth on October 14, according the local paper, Nord-Littoral. The students
attacked the electrical engineering teacher because he had asked one of the
students to get back to work.
Saint-Denis (Seine Saint-Denis, suburb of Paris): On October 13, a school
headmaster and his deputy were beaten by a vocational student who had been
reprimanded for arriving late.
Strasbourg: A mathematics teacher was brutally attacked on October 17 at the
Orbelin school. The headmaster of the institution told France Bleu that a
"youth," who is not a student at the school, had beaten the teacher. This
was not the first time that the "youth" had entered the building. Earlier,
when the teacher asked him to leave his class, the "youth" delivered several
blows to the teacher's face before fleeing.
All these attackers were not terrorists, but like Islamic terrorists, they
apparently wanted to destroy "attack the institution, to attack the State."
Hospitals
On October 16, fifteen individuals accompanying a patient sowed terror in
the emergency department of Gustave Dron Hospital in Tourcoing, according to
La Voix du Nord. A doctor was severely beaten; another pulled by the hair.
Doctors and nurses told the newspaper they were still in shock. Said a
nurse:
"Ten people forced their way into the heart of the ER. The doctors asked
them to leave... When everything stopped, I realized that the ER was
ravaged, patients terrorized, relatives of patients crying."
The attackers were from the district of La Bourgogne, an area essentially
populated with North African immigrants. Three people were arrested.
In the same area of La Bourgogne, there was a riot on October 4. Fourteen
cars were burned and 12 people arrested. The riot, which lasted for four
nights, broke out after the arrest of a driver who did not stop when asked
to by a policeman.
Politics
On October 14, Nadine Morano, deputy of the opposition party Les
Républicains, tried physically to prevent an Algerian businessman, Rachid
Nekkaz, from entering the Center of Public Finance of Toul, in the east of
France. Nekkaz is known for paying fines of Muslim women arrested because
they were wearing a burqa in public, banned by law since October 2010.
Police came to protect the right of Mr. Nekkaz to pay the fine. An amendment
to the finance law is currently under discussion to block and punish
practices, like those of Nekkaz, that circumvent the law.
President François Hollande is currently under fire after the publication of
a book, A President Should Not Say That... In it, he is reported to have
said, "France has a problem with Islam," and "there are too many migrants in
France" -- remarks Hollande claims he never made. Another quote in the book
that Hollande denies saying:
"We cannot continue to have migrants who arrive without control, in the
context of the attacks... The secession of territories (no go zones)? How
can we avoid a partition? Because it is still what is going to happen."
President Hollande spends his time apologizing for things he never said, but
should have said because they are true.
French People
French Chinese: The French Chinese live in the same suburbs as Muslims and
are attacked and harassed, to the general indifference of police.
As crime against community members has spiraled, about 50,000 ethnic Chinese
staged a protest march in Paris on September 4, after the fatal mugging of a
Chinese tailor.
The protesters, all of them wearing white T-shirts reading "Security for
All" and waving French flags, rallied at the Place de la République. They
had organized the demonstration by themselves and were not supported by the
traditional "human rights" groups, which prefer to help Muslim migrants.
Public Opinion: In January 2016, Cevipof, a think tank of the Paris
Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), released its seventh Barometer
of Political Trust, a poll published annually to measure the values of
democracy in the country, and based on interviews with 2074 people:
What is your current state of mind? Listlessness 31%, Gloom 29%, Mistrust
28%, Fear: 10%
Do you trust government? Not much 58%, not at all 32%
Do you trust lawmakers? Not much 39%, not at all 16%%
Do you trust the president? Not much 32%; not at all 38%
Do politicians care about what the people think? Not much 42%, not at all
46%
How democracy is working in France? Not well 43%, not well at all 24%
Do you trust political parties? Not much 47%, not at all 40%
Do you trust the media? Not much 48% not at all 27 %
What do you feel about politics? Distrust 39%; disgust 33%, boredom 8%
What do you feel about politicians? Disappointment 54%; disgust 20%
Corruption of politicians? Yes 76%
Too many migrants? Yes, plus tend to agree: 65%
Islam is a threat? Yes, plus tend to agree: 58%
Proud to be French? Yes 79%
What this poll shows is the gap between people and politicians has never
been so vast.
Thibaud de Montbrial, lawyer and expert on terrorism, declared on October 19
to Le Figaro:
The term "dislocation" of French society seems appropriate. Violence against
police, hospitals, attacks that multiply against schools and teachers... are
attacks against pillars of the ruling domain. In other words, everything
that represents state institutions (...) is now subjected to violence based
on essentially sectarian and sometimes ethnic excesses, fueled by an
incredible hatred of our country. We must be blind or unconscious not to
feel concern for national cohesion."
Yves Mamou, based in France, worked for two decades as a journalist for Le
Monde.