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"Now that's enough...
Facing these savage hordes, asking for calm is no longer enough, it must be imposed!
Restoring the republican order and putting the apprehended beyond the capacity to harm should be the only political signals to give.
In the face of such exactions, the police family must stand together.
Our colleagues, like the majority of citizens, can no longer bear the tyranny of these violent minorities.
The time is not for union action, but for combat against these "pests". Surrendering, capitulating, and pleasing them by laying down arms are not the solutions in light of the gravity of the situation.
All means must be put in place to restore the rule of law as quickly as possible.
Once restored, we already know that we will relive this mess that we have been enduring for decades.
For these reasons, Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA Police will take their responsibilities and warn the government from now on that at the end, we will be in action and without concrete measures for the legal protection of the Police
It seems that some people want more chaos.
Is this Press release real?
I am struck by the part about the government urging people to calm down instead of cutting down violence, looting, arson, etc., they know how to... People get angry and law enforcement gets angrier. But if the cops are not cautious, it could backfire more... Perhaps it's the purpose.
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After more than a year's investigation, eight men have been indicted in a case of trafficking in weapons of war. The criminals obtained their supplies through burglaries and imports from Eastern Europe.
Wow, if that's for real, that's is really quite something
Yup, it's hot in France right now, but only in certain some sectors of some cities. This is not a nationwide 'Yellow Vest' rebellion. Anglophones are interpreting the images they're seeing as either:Wow, if that's for real, that's really quite something
Notice that they used the word "chienlit", which is a reference to de Gaulle's speech during the 1968 revolt. See:
Chienlit - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
First of all, like it or not these "immigrants" are French, in their immense majority. Most often for the 2nd or 3rd generation since the bulk of the immigrants from North Africa came in the 60s and 70s. And they came to France because we colonized their country, which was a historical mistake of profound significance, which France committed.
Other mistake: we then parked these populations together in suburban ghettos, meaning that France created this divide that we today live with between these populations and the rest of the French population.
Third mistake: France always had this totally unrealistic ideal of "assimilation", instead of understanding that you can't erase someone's culture, even after multiple generations, and that the only realistic thing to do is therefore to accommodate different cultures.
What happens when you have a large population of a given culture and that you don't accommodate or respect it, instead trying to unrealistically convert them to another culture? You create resentment, defiance and, again, divide.
These are the root causes of the issue. Like it or not, France does have a very large Muslim population of North African origin. They will have a different culture than the "traditional" French culture, probably for ever or at least for many, many generations.
You can either put your head in the sand (the solution of the left) or go for an apartheid-like regime (the solution of the right) but neither of these are actual solutions. The only actual solution is to change France as a country that accommodates and respects different cultures in its midst.
There are actually excellent examples of this in Asia. Singapore - where approx 15% of the population is Muslim - is an excellent example of how Islam can flourish in the context of a secular state. Muslim holidays in Singapore are public holidays for the whole country. They also have a "Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act" which bans "causing feelings of enmity, hatred, ill-will or hostility between different religious groups". This is a wise policy that allows for mutual respect and harmony between communities. Sadly I don't see France adopting a similar path anytime soon. And this is why these problems will keep worsening.
This is not a 'Yellow Vest' movement. It's an urban minority of the French population that is rioting, burning and looting. This is on par with the George Floyd riots in the US in the summer of 2020. In this case, however, the police really did go too far by shooting dead a 17-year-old for not obeying a traffic stop.Paris suburb: driving school managers sold assault rifles on housing estates
Seine-Saint-Denis : les gérants d’auto-écoles vendaient des fusils d’assaut dans les cités
Après plus d’un an d’enquête, huit hommes ont été mis en examen dans une affaire de trafic d’armes de guerre. Les malfaiteurs se fournissaiewww.leparisien.fr
In short, you'd need regime change. Not the modern understanding of regime change, where the executive branch of government is simply replaced with new figureheads answering to different overseas sponsors. ACTUAL regime change where the entire perspective, political philosophy, and mode of governing among the entire elite/intelligentsia changes for the better. And that's not going to happen any time soon.