As dustbins burn and students chant “everyone hates the police” in the French city of Lille, one teenager explains why he and his friends have taken to the streets.
“There aren’t even enough chairs. We have to go and find some at the start of every lesson,” the 16-year-old, who did not want to give his name, says of his school.
“We’ve got 50 minutes to eat at lunchtime but there are 2,000 of us that need to get through the canteen.”
Approaching civil war: France and Belgium are burning… schools torched, businesses looted, churches attacked.
Nearly 300 police injured, a young policewoman chased down and beaten in Paris, thousands of rioters arrested.
And we’re supposed to keep a straight face while the news media and government calls them “students” who just want better schools.
In Brussels barely one resident in five is of Belgian origin. In Aubervilliers, where ‘youths’ set fires and fought police this month, 84% of under-25s had at least one immigrant parent as of 2013. Across Seine-Saint-Denis, immigrants and their children now make up about 70% of the population – mostly Africans.
What we’re watching is a long-term, multi-generational invasion by enclaved, unassimilated cultures that will never be French or Belgian, whatever passport they carry. At some point we have to talk honestly about where the terms ‘unrest’ and ‘riots’ end – and where ‘invasion’ and ‘civil war’ begin.
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 10, 2026
