Canada: Clashes also took place in Montreal following the events taking place in France
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Chambéry: Anti-riot demonstration in progress"Red white blue, France to the French."
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Firefighter who died in Saint-Denis: where does the link, for the moment not established, come from with urban violence?
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Between immigration and economy, the UDC has chosen
ÉDITORIAL. En lançant un nouveau coup de boutoir contre l’immigration, l’UDC se replie sur son thème de prédilection. Confirmant au passage qu’elle n’est pas en phase avec les besoins de l’économie
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By launching a new blow against immigration, the SVP is falling back on its favorite theme. Confirming in passing that it is not in line with the needs of the economy
Publié le 02 juillet 2023 18:48. Modifié le 03 juillet 2023 18:33.
To what extent will the so-called initiative “For sustainability”, dubbed Saturday in the assembly of delegates, serve the SVP during the federal elections this fall? By falling back on immigration, its favorite theme, the country's leading party will not fail to hit the bull's eye with part of the electorate. Frightened by the demographic growth of Switzerland, citizens will be reassured by the prospect of limiting it to 10 million inhabitants by 2050.
The agrarian party is right to worry about migratory pressure which involves colossal challenges. No one is fooled. His approach, however, is more electoral calculation than the real desire to provide solutions.
Read also: The new anti-European sling of the UDC
Ironically, the economic umbrella organizations stepped up to the plate just a week ago to be alarmed for the umpteenth time at the shortage of labor which is plaguing business activity. They will be able to appreciate the new blow that the SVP gives to immigration, even if it claims to want to separate the wheat from the chaff; in other words, favoring “useful” profiles to the detriment of others.
Too late for targeted selection
Implementing a needs-based migration policy should not be taboo. This path unfortunately represents a solution of the past. Today, the shortage is so glaring that companies systematically point to it as the first obstacle to their development. With arms and brains missing almost everywhere due to the retirement of baby boomers, it is hard to see how such a selection could be made. If not under the influence of intense lobbying work which would oppose the different economic branches
Also read: Labor shortage: Bosses appeal for immigration
The priority must therefore go to the integration of immigrants into the world of work. While it represents a powerful opportunity for integration, it remains far too imperfect. If they want to pull the rug out from under the SVP, the economic circles have every interest in playing the game of social partnership and redistributing part of their earnings. Much more than the specter of unemployment, it is purchasing power that worries voters. He could well throw them into the arms of the far-right formation.
Dans les pays voisins, les journaux voient dans les violences qui secouent la France depuis plusieurs jours l’éruption d’une colère qui couvait depuis longtemps
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Assembly of SVP delegates, July 1 in Küssnacht. — © Michele Limina for Le Temps
Florian Fischbacher Published on July 03, 2023, 05:49. Modified on 03 July 2023 18:56.
“For many French people, a deep sense of déjà vu prevails.” Like the
Financial Times , the newspapers of European countries all evoke the riots of 2005, after six days and as many nights of clashes following the death of Nahel, 17, killed by a policeman in Nanterre.
Although the night from Sunday to Monday was relatively calm, the impressive clashes of the past few days “underline the deep divisions in society, the tensions between young people and the police, and the failure of successive governments to improve living conditions in the suburbs, despite forty years of plans in this direction”, continues the British economic newspaper.
The finding is the same for
the Sunday Times , which describes a “fractured nation”, where “race relations have become more strained over the past two decades with the increase in the immigrant population”. Recalling the three weeks of riots that followed the death of Zyed and Bouna 18 years ago in Clichy-sous-Bois, the newspaper said it feared "this time the situation will get out of control faster than in 2005". The "previous popular revolts against Macron" mean that "the mood of the country is today more angry and society more divided", adds the
Sunday Times .
Read also: The evolution of the French riots of recent nights in light of those of 2005
“The crisis of the French model”
The Paris correspondent
of the Italian newspaper La Stampa makes him a direct comparison between the two eras, having plunged back into his 2005 notepad. I canceled the time”, he says, pessimistic. He denounces, as nearly 20 years ago, "the blindness and hypocrisy of a bankrupt political class". The Italian journalist sees again an “intifada of hooded, nihilistic and sterile young people”. These rebellious young people, grandchildren of immigrants, who "dreamed of obtaining a French passport", went to school in France, "who were taught the Marseillaise and the delights of fraternity". They “already have this passport in their pocket; the trouble is that they don't want it anymore”. And to conclude: “it is the crisis of the French model which always promises and never holds”.
In Spain,
El País believes, for its part, that "the year of the great revolt of the suburbs is in everyone's mind, from the power of the Elysée to the inhabitants of the suburbs". And this third wave "of social discontent which Macron must face, after the yellow vests and the pension reform" can "at any time become uncontrollable again or degenerate": "it is the France of 2023, a country which is experiencing an anomaly."
Read again: Faced with violence in the suburbs, Emmanuel Macron points to social networks
“When we burn 100 cars in France, we burn one in Brussels”
In Switzerland, one wonders about the possibility of a broadening of the protest movement.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung thus indicates that “the events in France motivated a hundred young people to go wild in the city center of Lausanne on the night of Saturday to Sunday”, following “a call on social networks” . "It was a bit of chaos" testified
in 24 hours the manager of a store whose window was broken, surprised at the age of the participants who were "very young, around 13-15 years old". However, the Lausanne event remains isolated and on a much smaller scale than in France.
Belgium – where
Le Soir reports that “two cars were set on fire” in Brussels and “more than a hundred people” were arrested “over the weekend, the majority of them minors” – shares the Swiss questioning. But questioned by the French-speaking daily, Xavier Rousseaux, professor at the Catholic University of Louvain puts it into perspective: “When you burn 100 cars in France, you burn one in Brussels or Liège. But it stops there.” He notes that the same reaction had already taken place in Belgium in 2005 “where we came to film a car that had burned on a vacant lot in Louvain-la-Neuve to show that in Belgium too the housing estates were burning […] We have to de-dramatize.”
The
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung notes, however, that the situation in France is serious. And the French president finds himself in a difficult situation: "the longer the troubles continue, the more the confidence of the citizens in Macron's leadership diminishes". And the
Süddeutsche Zeitung points out that the situation has led to the cancellation of a trip by Emmanuel Macron to Germany, scheduled for this week, which “would have been the first state visit by a French president for twenty-three years. ".
In German-speaking Switzerland,
the Tages Anzeiger believes that even if the French president, “who knows the power of symbols, had difficulty accepting this cancellation, […] it could not be otherwise”. Maintaining such a visit while “his own house is burning would have been difficult to make accepted by a heated French public opinion”. The country "needs a captain on deck", adds the Zurich daily, which calls on the French president to tackle two problems head-on. Police violence on the one hand: the slogan “the police kill” must “remain controversial, it must not describe reality”, according to the
Tages-Anzeiger. On the other hand, on the situation of the suburbs, he believes that “many things have been tried, but no one has yet tackled this task with the greatest seriousness”.
Suddenly, however, "everyone gets involved, politicians, journalists, they want to take the pulse where we don't really like to look," writes the
Süddeutsche Zeitung . While the question is not new: “France and its suburbs. For decades, this relationship has been problematic. But "anger often ferments in the shadows," adds the German newspaper.
Also read: Home of mayor targeted in fifth night of violence in France
Violence that “bodes nothing good”
Going back ten years before the riots of 2005, the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , like other newspapers, evokes a malaise in the suburbs, particularly in the face of the police, already described in
La Haine, the film by Mathieu Kassovitz released in 1995. hatred which “feeds above all on disappointed hopes”.
In a separate commentary, the
Süddeutsche Zeitung points out that “there are many actors in France engaged in civil society and even in politics, who are trying to carry out reforms”. While regretting: “We do not hear them and we do not see them”. Instead, the Bavarian newspaper observes that “for years now, loudspeakers of hatred and racism” have monopolized “the national discourse”.
“This eruption of violence does not bode well for the country,” adds the
FAZ, as it “should give an extra boost to far-right parties. Marine Le Pen does not even need to comment on the events.
Also read: Sebastian Roché: “The problem of fatal shots when refusing to comply is systemic in France”
Hmm..Al Jazeera
Outrage swells on social media as fund for accused police officer grows, with calls on GoFundMe to close the pot.
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Outrage swells on social media as fund for accused police officer grows, with calls on GoFundMe to close the pot.
A collection for the French policeman who sparked nationwide riots by killing a teenager during a traffic stop has been growing, prompting outrage among politicians and activists.
Set up by Jean Messiha, a former adviser to the French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, the appeal on GoFundMe had raised 963,000 euros ($1.05m) at the time of writing on Monday.
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On June 27, the accused officer was filmed shooting into a car being driven by Nahel M, a 17-year-old of North African descent.
The shot killed the teenager and has led to days of unrest across France, as anger rages over the incident.
Nahel’s grandmother, Nadia, was recently asked about the crowdfunding campaign, and she replied: “My heart aches.”
The boy’s death has renewed debates on France’s long and troubled history with its ethnic minority populations, and allegations of police brutality.
Centrist and left-wing politicians condemned Messiha’s collection drive.
Eric Bothorel, from the En Marche party of President Emmanuel Macron, wrote on Twitter: “Jean Messiha blows on the embers. It is a generator of riots. The pot of several hundred thousand euros for the police officer indicted in the homicide of young Nahel is indecent and scandalous.”
Olivier Faure, head of the Socialist Party, called on GoFundMe to close the fundraiser, accusing the platform of “hosting a pot of shame”.
“You maintain an already gaping fracture by participating in support of a police officer indicted for intentional homicide. Close!”
Some called out the hypocrisy of the pot still taking donations.
In 2019, the fund for a former boxer who had punched several police officers during “yellow vest” anti-government demonstrations in 2019 was quickly closed down.
Left-wing politician David Guiraud wrote on Twitter: “The assumed message is kill Arabs, and you will become millionaires, and the government watches this horror pass without saying anything when it had closed the yellow vest pot in 2 days who hit a policeman. Repugnant.”
The French activist group Sleeping Giants tweeted the “sheer existence” of the fund “inflames the sentiment of injustice and furthers tensions”.
Amid the riots, which often feature vandalism and see protesters clash with police, France has been deploying 45,000 officers onto the streets each night to quell unrest in cities including Paris, Strasbourg, Marseille and Nice.
On Monday, demonstrations began at French town halls opposing the riots, during which violence and looting has also been reported.
Called a “mobilisation of citizens for a return to republican order”, the anti-riot rallies came after the home of the mayor of a Paris suburb was rammed with a flaming car.
Fewer than 160 people were arrested on Sunday night, down from 700 the night before and far fewer than the 1,300 arrested on Friday night.
Nadia told BFM TV that rioters were using her grandson’s death as an excuse to incite chaos.
“I tell them to stop it. It’s mothers who take buses, it’s mothers who walk outside. We should calm things, we don’t want them to break things,” she said.
“Nahel is dead, that’s all there is.” Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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