France: Civil War By 2030?

I’m sending you an extra newsletter today because I’ve just read (in French) a stunning interview in Valeurs Actuelles, the Paris magazine. I reproduce it below in translation; the italics are in the original:

Is France on the verge of tipping over? “With 28 knife attacks per day, the country is no longer safe. We’re heading straight for disaster,” Jean-Louis Sanchet replies bluntly. This private security consultant created and commanded CRS No. 8, the national police’s specialized unit for combating urban violence from 2021 to 2023.

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The betrayal of Samuel Paty

Five years on, Europe is appeasing the Islamist intolerance that led to his beheading.

Five years ago today, in a quiet Parisian suburb in broad daylight, teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded. His killer, Abdullah Anzarov, a self-described ‘servant of Allah’, had hoped to send a message to ‘the infidel Macron’. ‘I executed one of your hellhounds’, he boasted on social media, his post accompanied by a photo of Paty’s severed head.

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Plainclothes Policeman Almost Lynched in Paris

On Saturday, October 11th, the rap group L2B organized a free concert at the Les Halles cultural hotspot in Paris. While the first part of the musical performance took place without incidents, the police asked the musicians to cancel the second part, “given the large crowd and to avoid any overflow,” Le Journal de Dimanche reported. While the capacity of the venue was limited to 800 people, only 45 minutes after the doors opened nearly 2,000 people were counted.

Tweet Translation – “An undercover police officer is lynched on the ground during the dispersal of spectators who came to the Halles de Paris for the free concert by L2B, which was ultimately canceled.”

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‘Christians Feel Abandoned’: Senators Demand Action in France

Eighty-six French senators have published a collective op-ed in the conservative press outlet Boulevard Voltaire calling for increased public vigilance to ensure the protection of French Christians, who are now despised and largely ignored.

In the first five months of 2025 alone, 322 anti-Christian acts were recorded—an increase of 13% over the same period last year.

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French special forces board Russian tanker linked to’drone ship’ reports

French troops have boarded the deck of a tanker alleged to be from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ and suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark last month.

A source within the executive branch told AFP earlier that the French navy had boarded the Boracay, a Benin-flagged vessel blacklisted by the European Union for being part of Russia’s sanction-busting fleet of ageing oil tankers.

French President Emmanuel Macron did not confirm reports of a connection to Danish drone flights but said on Wednesday that the ship had committed ‘serious offences’.

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France: The Populist Hour Strikes

Having just ended its ninth month in office, French Prime Minister François Bayrou stepped down after the National Assembly endorsed a no-confidence vote by a huge majority. That handed President Emmanuel Macron a hot potato in the shape of naming yet another Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, the outgoing Defense Minister of the Armies, the fifth in just two years, with no certainty that he would be the lucky fifth.

Macron is in a hurry because he wants to fly to New York to settle the Ukraine war, ensure recognition of a Palestinian state, solve the Iranian nuclear problem, and offer a master plan for rebuilding Lebanon and Syria.

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Another Victim of Multiculturalism: French Woman Killed by Afghan Ex

A 25-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times on Monday, September 8th, in her home in Poitiers, France, and later died from her injuries. The prime suspect is the young woman’s former partner, a political refugee from Afghanistan who was residing in France legally.

Le Figaro reports that the 35-year-old Afghan is still on the run. The woman, who has been identified as “Inès,” had filed five complaints with the police for harassment before she was killed.

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Illegal Immigrants Finally Convicted Four Years After Raping 18-Year-Old Girl

The Bouches-du-Rhône juvenile court sentenced two men to long prison terms for the rape of an 18-year-old woman near the SNCF train station in Aix-en-Provence in December 2021.

“It’s a brutal rape par excellence,” said the victim’s lawyer, Maud Bertrand, to Le Figaro.

The court handed Mohamed Annabi, a 29-year-old Algerian, a 17-year sentence that includes a two-thirds security period, a permanent ban from French territory, and registration in the FIJAIS (automated judicial file for perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses). His accomplice, Amen-Allah Handiri, a 20-year-old Tunisian who was 17 at the time of the crime, received 15 years.

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Stabby Muslim Shouting Allahu Akbar Shot Dead By Gendarmes In Marseille

Man shot dead by French police after stabbings at Marseille hotel

A man has been shot dead by police in the southern French city of Marseille after five people were wounded in a hotel and a nearby street.

The man was armed with two knives and a baton and had ignored police warnings to drop his weapons, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone told reporters.

He had been evicted from the hotel for unpaid rent and attacked one person in his old room, before stabbing the hotel manager and his son, the prosecutor said.

Tweet Translation – Marseille: Abdelkader D., a Tunisian already known to the police, injures several people with a knife while shouting “Allahu Akbar”; the police neutralize him fatally by shooting

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France’s New Guillotine: Silent Dictatorship

In a cruel twist of history, France, the self-proclaimed cradle of the Enlightenment and freedom, has turned into a regime where democracy is nothing more than a mask, concealing a dictatorship that is still in its infancy but nonetheless unflinching. It is not a dictatorship of boots and uniforms; it is a hushed tyranny, judicial and institutional, crushing any hint of real change under the weight of its legal trappings.

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French President Macron Rewards Terrorism, Whips Up Slaughter

July 24,2025: French President Emmanuel Macron announces that he will officially recognize a “Palestinian State.” He publicizes a letter he sent to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and praises his “courageous commitments”. In it, Macron emphasizes his desire to “fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people” and that “We must immediately implement a ceasefire, release all hostages and provide massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,”⁠ Macron reportedly announced. He did not, however make recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state conditioned on any of that.

“Peace is possible,” he added, along with the notion that “Building a Palestinian state and ensuring its viability would ‘contribute to the security of all in the Middle East.”‘

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The awful spectacle of la belle France dissolving makes me fear for Britain

What has happened to my beloved France, the country where I spent my childhood summers, studied and worked in my 20s? Once the embodiment of European confidence and cultural supremacy, the land of Voltaire, Bastiat and de Tocqueville is now trapped in an accelerating spiral of decline.

British tourists – some nine million a year – might experience la France profonde, the warm baguettes, contented cows, the exquisite parking. But beneath the idyll lies the reality of a country at war with itself, its government fighting crises on economic, political and social fronts.

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African teen rapes woman in front of Eiffel Tower

Woman, 32, is dragged into bushes and raped in front of the Eiffel Tower

A teenager has been arrested after a woman was dragged into the bushes and raped in front of the Eiffel Tower.

The suspect, a Libyan 17-year-old, was taken into custody shortly after the horrific attack near the Champ-de-Mars in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

According to initial evidence gathered by police officers at the scene, it was 2.40am when a man forcibly dragged the victim, a Ukrainian woman, 32, behind a bush.

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France summons US envoy over antisemitism claims

France says it will summon the US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner, over what it says are unacceptable allegations of failing to tackle a surge in antisemitism.

Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, made the comments in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron in the Wall Street Journal.

Echoing Israel’s criticism of France days earlier, Kushner said there had been an explosion of hatred towards Jews in France since the war in Gaza began.

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Traditional Village Festivals: Another ‘Conspiracy by the Far Right’

A few months ago, an association was set up with the aim of supporting and certifying traditional festivals in French villages. The Left, which identified that the organisation had received support from Catholic billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, launched a smear campaign against the project, claiming that it was a militant offensive by the far Right. Under pressure from the media, the festivals that had been awarded the label were asked to withdraw.

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