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Clashes in France Accelerating Europe’s Swing to the Right

President Macron has a penchant for talking up the value of greater unity in Europe, going so far last year as to launch a “European Political Community” for no apparent reason other than love of a pointless rendezvous. What the French president failed to bank on is how Europeans’ frustration with entrenched social crises would in the summer of 2023 move the European political needle decisively to the right.

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France Under Riot – The country is losing its capacity to control and suppress mayhem.

Some American visitors to my house in France have been impressed by a market in a small and beautiful town nearby: the quality of the local produce, the good humor and atmosphere of conviviality, in short, the savoir-vivre of which the market seemed to be so fine an example.

The night before, in the nearest town of any size or importance, rioters had injured three policemen, and another policeman was saved from murder only by his bulletproof vest.

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France riots: £750,000 donated to policeman who killed Nahel Merzouk

Pic via Twitter.

Fundraising for the family of a French police officer who shot dead a teenager has attracted more than €900,000 (£770,000), far more than a similar campaign for the victim’s relatives.
The biggest fund, set up by Jean Messiha, an independent right-wing populist, has raised €860,000 from just shy of 40,000 donors, and another run by the policeman’s colleagues has raised more than €50,000. About €150,000 (£128,000) has been pledged to the family of Nahel Merzouk, who was shot dead in his car at point-blank range on Tuesday in a killing that prompted six nights of rioting.

“39-45 THE RETURN, BE PREPARED”

“39-45 the return, be prepared”

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France riots ease as mayors call anti-violence rally

Riots in France appear to be calming, after five days of violent protests in response to the shooting of teenager Nahel M during a police traffic stop.

More than 150 people were arrested on Sunday night, compared with more than 700 the night before.

Over the last few days, there have been numerous calls for the violence to stop, including from Nahel’s family.

Mayors have called for people to rally outside town halls on Monday to protest the violence and looting.

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Reports that French Catholic Priest Violently Beaten and Robbed Go Viral

Amid the ongoing riots that have engulfed France since June 27th following the death of 17-year-old Arab teenager Nahel M., reports emerged that a violent attack on an elderly French priest in Saint-Étienne was related to the general unrest. The Diocese of Saint-Étienne later published an official statement disputing this.

On Thursday evening, June 29th in Saint-Étienne, capital of the administrative division of the Loire, unknown actors assaulted and robbed Father Francis Palle.

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Stop rioting, pleads Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother

A grandmother of the teenage boy killed by a policeman in a Paris suburb pleaded for an end to the violence after five nights of rioting in France.

As the authorities prepared to deploy 45,000 police and special forces officers on Sunday night, 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk’s grandmother Nadia appealed for calm.

“I say to the people who are breaking things up — stop,” she told the French broadcaster BFMTV. “Nahel is dead. My daughter had just one child. She’s lost, it’s over, my daughter has no life.”

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French rioters set mayor’s home on fire while family sleeps inside & Animals roam Paris streets after Protesters Open Zoo

Rioters rammed a car into the home of a mayor in southern Paris before setting it on fire while his wife and children were sleeping.

Protesters chased Melanie Nowak and her two children behind the house and into the garden as the family tried to escape, in the latest example of fierce violence gripping France.

The mother suffered a serious leg fracture after trying to push her children over the wall that separates her garden from her neighbour’s backyard and was recovering in hospital on Sunday morning. One of the children was also injured.

Animals roam Paris streets after Protesters Open Zoo

Cars, libraries, supermarkets, residential areas were set on fire as France protests intensified amid the death of a teen. Amid all this, the protesters freed zoo animals in Paris which have since then been freely roaming around in the city.

h/t Mauser

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France sends in special forces to combat rioters

France has dispatched its elite GIGN commandos to reinforce beleaguered police as the country braces for a fifth night of violence over the killing of Nahel Merzouk.

Some 45,000 police officers and Gendarmes were mobilised on Saturday evening, after hundreds of people gathered to bury the 17-year-old police shooting victim in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.

Arrests were made in cities across France with a police source quoted on BFMTV giving the number as 121.

Fdesouche has more video – Live riots Saturday + Saturday/Sunday night despite Twitter limitations and government requests to other platforms and media

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‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police

Inside, Emmanuel Macron was sharing a typically polished vision of a rejuvenated, safer Marseille. Yet it was outside the spruced-up gym in the impoverished Busserine district – tensions building on the hottest day of the year – where the real story was playing out.

Little more than 12 hours before the police killing of a 17-year-old boy 500 miles north in Nanterre would convulse the country, scores of officers clutching assault rifles and bulletproof riot shields clashed with teenagers of north African descent, trading insults as officers profiled potential troublemakers.

“Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police” AKA Intensely hostile “NO GO Zones” established by drug gangs.

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France protests: more than 1,300 arrested as riots surge in Marseille and Lyon

More than 1,300 people were arrested in a fourth night of violence in France after the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy.

Forty-five thousand police officers, including special forces, were deployed to respond to rioting across the country on Friday night, with the situation in two big cities – Marseille and Lyon – highlighted as particularly chaotic, with buildings and vehicles torched and stores looted.

The ministry of the interior reported that 1,311 people were arrested overnight, while 79 police officers and gendarmes were injured and 2,500 fires were recorded.

Very vibrant.

White supremacists again …

More video at Fdesouche – 4th night of post Nahel riots (night of Friday June 30 to Saturday July 1)

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France is in danger of descending into anarchy

France endured its worst night of rioting yet on Thursday as violence continued across the country. For the third consecutive evening, youths went on the rampage in most major cities, despite the presence of 40,000 police. Shops were looted, town halls attacked, police stations firebombed and vehicles were hijacked in extraordinary scenes of urban warfare.

Far right?

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French police say ‘we are at war with savage hordes of vermin’ as they threaten revolt over rioting

French police said they were “at war” with “savage hordes of vermin” on Friday night as France was rocked by violent waves of riots and looting.

Two of the country’s top police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron’s government restored order after protests broke out over an officer’s shooting of a teenager outside Paris.
“Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this,” they said.

h/t Mauser

More video at Fdesouche – Live post Nahel riots: Friday day and evening

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French Police Won Authority to Shoot at Drivers, but Got ‘No Training Whatsoever’

For years, French police unions argued that officers should get broader discretion over when to shoot at fleeing motorists. Time and again, lawmakers refused.

Finally in 2017, after a string of terrorist attacks, the government relented. Eager to be tough on crime and terrorism, lawmakers passed a bill allowing officers to fire on motorists who flee traffic stops, even when the officers are not in immediate danger.

“For politicians, because this was real politics, it was hard to say no,” recalled Frédéric Lagache, a leader of the police union Alliance Police who pushed forcefully for the law.

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France riots: Macron faces calls to declare state of emergency

Protests over the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M have spilled into the capital’s affluent areas

President Macron has summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting amid calls for him to declare a state of emergency after a third night of rioting across France.

With the violence intensifying despite the deployment of 40,000 officers including elite units across the country, Macron is under growing pressure to suspend some civil rights in an effort to restore order.

He is to chair the French equivalent of a Cobra meeting — the second in two days — as he struggles for a coherent response to what has spiralled into a national crisis and a challenge to his authority.

France riots: Macron to hold crisis meeting as 667 arrested and violence spreads

Emmanuel Macron is to head another crisis meeting of ministers as the French government struggles to contain an escalation of unrest that has spread from housing estates across the country to the centre of major cities after the police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.

A total of 667 people were arrested across France into the early hours of Friday morning, officials said, as violence continued into a third night of riots triggered by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop.

Fdesouche has a lot of video – Nahel: live on the third night of riots

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