Nationwide fuel strikes and a gilets jaunes revival are challenging Macron’s fragile rule.
French president Emmanuel Macron failed to get a majority in the parliamentary elections last June. This was a serious blow to his authority – and a public repudiation of his programme. Yet he has still vowed to push through his most controversial economic reforms. After two years of generous public spending amid the Covid lockdowns, Macron now plans to usher in a period of austerity. Resistance to these reforms is growing and is now spilling out on to the streets.
Why did they kidnap and nearly behead Lola? For fun?
Horror hits France every day and it’s almost impossible to keep up with the news. A war of blood and conquest, often quietly, is declared against its inhabitants. Students are subjected to the law of numbers and humiliations are daily fare in the “neighborhoods”.
Any Frenchman, on the street and in transport, can be verbally assaulted, stabbed or murdered, because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The elderly, regardless of their age, are attacked with impunity. Younger girls are sexually assaulted.
When you post soldiers in your streets out of fear then you have an Islam problem.
“One day, it will be necessary to mass troops in front of the Élysée.”
… Lallemant believes, based on his decades of experience as a police officer and then as the police chief of Paris, that the large-scale presence of Muslims, who do not wish to integrate into French society, but rather, to challenge the French state and its laws, will end in a civil war, where even the Élysée Palace will need to be guarded by the army from Muslim insurrectionists.
Grief and outrage in France over the murder of a 12-year-old girl found dumped in a plastic trunk in Paris has turned into a political row over the migrant status of the suspect.
Lola’s body was found last Friday in a courtyard outside the apartment block where she lived.
A 24-year-old woman has been remanded in custody on suspicion of murder, rape as well as acts of torture.
It has also emerged she is an Algerian immigrant under orders to leave France.
Two Algerian migrants have been indicted for the rape, torture and murder of a 12-year-old girl named Lola who was discovered dead on Friday in the courtyard of the building where she lived.
The body of 12-year-old Lola Daviet was found at around 11:20 pm on Friday after her parents had reported her missing to the police in the afternoon when Lola had not returned from school to her home in the 19th arrondissement (district) of Paris.
Rien n’a changé. That was the theme among French political papers over the weekend, two years on from the daylight decapitation of schoolteacher Samuel Paty.
PARIS — Tens of thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to protest rising living costs, amid an increasingly tense political atmosphere marked by strikes at oil refineries and nuclear plants that threaten to spread further.
The march had been planned long before the strikes by a coalition of left-wing parties eager to capitalize on the cost-of-living crisis and assert itself as the leading opposition force to President Emmanuel Macron. But on Sunday, organizers signaled that they intended to build momentum from the climate of social unrest to increase pressure on Mr. Macron’s government.
Ranks of men in uniform are bombarded with Molotov cocktails, makeshift mortars, and small arms fire. Commando units prepare to infiltrate a smoke-covered urban fortress. A city burns under the watchful eye of the press, reporting on “a civil war”.
This isn’t the siege of Aleppo, it’s a scene from Romain Gavras’s Athena, set in one of France’s burning banlieues. Amid the smoke grenades, police and Athenians engage in brutal fighting at close quarters, with metal rods and batons. Later, the police use fire ladders to scale the walls of a tower block. Athenians on wheels circle around a beleaguered police testudo, firing makeshift mortars at point blank range. Men on both sides are visibly shell-shocked.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and likely next Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni sharply criticised a French minister over remarks that France may monitor the country for violations of rights and freedoms.
If France wants to lead Europe to a new era of military self-reliance, how come its contribution to the war effort in Ukraine is so small?
That is the awkward question being posed by some of the country’s top strategic thinkers, who are pushing President Emmanuel Macron to make an urgent decision on more arms to Kyiv.
Recent analysis conducted on the ground in Poland and Ukraine shows that the French share of foreign arms deliveries is less than 2%, way behind the US on 49%, but also behind Poland (22%) and Germany (9%).
Belgian academic and economist Philippe Van Parijs explained to the newspaper De Standaard what happens when you lose national identity. “Brussels can no longer be called Belgium,” said Van Parijs, adding that the rest of Belgium is becoming more and more like Brussels.
Philippe Van Parijs had conducted a demographic study. His discoveries will surprise only those who want to remain blind. In ten years, the percentage of Brussels residents who have both parents with Belgian citizenship has gone down from just 36 to 26 percent. “There are more Brussels residents of Moroccan origin than Flemings or Walloons”.
In the past few days, the European Parliament has voted to isolate (when to expel?) Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. The real clash between Brussels and Budapest is over immigration. Not to all immigration, as Hungary welcomed 15,000 Ukrainians in a single day. No, only Islamic immigration.
He added that the closures came after a request by the president to fight “Islamist separatism.”
“Islamist separatism” that’s a very telling term.
But the numbers don’t lie … A total of 22,000 people are under surveillance by the country’s intelligence services of which 4,600 are foreigners, said the minister.
Out of the 4,600 foreigners, there are 1,200 foreigners that are actively under surveillance, and 780 foreigners were deported during the last four years, he added.
The barbarians are inside the gates …
French Intelligence Reveals Social Media Pushing Islam at School
With the start of the new school year, Islamist threats are once again hovering over French schools, according to two successive memos issued by the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalisation and Territorial Intelligence, one dated August 27th and the other, September 16th.
Pierre Lellouche: “40% of children aged 0 to 4 are immigrants or of immigrant origin. We have a profound change in the population of this country with a decisive weight of Islam, since most of this immigration comes from the Maghreb
France: according to a survey, almost a third of women of childbearing age do not want children
Among the respondents who do not feel a desire for motherhood, 50% believe that a child is not essential to their personal development when 48% do not wish to assume parental responsibility. The environmental and climate crisis also motivates the non-desire for children of 39% of the women questioned, followed by political and social crises (37%) and the fear of overpopulation (35%), details Elle.
The French left eats its own…
Paris: feminist activists attacked on abortion day by pro-trans left extremists because they believe that a man cannot have an abortion
Following disappointing showings at presidential and legislative elections last spring, Éric Zemmour, the leader of the French national Right party Reconquête, has licked his wounds and is mounting a political comeback, making a slew of media appearances this month along with several speeches delivered at university campuses.
In his most recent television appearance, which aired Thursday on the CNews political talk show L’Heure des Pros, the leader of Reconquête heavily criticized President Macron, who earlier this month—after presenting new legislation on immigration—announced his intention to reroute streams of newly-arrived foreigners to the French countryside.
Survivors of the 2016 Bastille day attack in Nice have described how the seafront was turned into a “war zone” when a gunman drove a heavy truck at high speed into the crowd gathered to watch fireworks in the French Riviera city.
“It was war, people were crushed, I saw a woman being run down with a baby in her arms,” said Abdallah Kebaïer, a retired maintenance worker, who was catapulted into the air by the truck and suffered seven broken ribs, head trauma and injuries to his liver and pancreas.