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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French Race Riots: Contrasting Portraits of Officer and Slain Suspect Emerge

Nahel M’s Mom seems to be enjoying her time in the spotlight leading riots.

Following an incident on Tuesday, June 27th that saw 17-year-old Nael M. shot dead by a policeman in Nanterre, France, after he failed to comply with an order to stop his vehicle—an incident that precipitated two nights of ultra-violent rioting in the multicultural Parisian suburb—portraits of the slain suspect and the officer have emerged.

Imagine a police station being firebombed in Canada.

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France: Worst Riots In 20 Years

Video showed officer allegedly telling 17-year-old victim, ‘I’m going to put a bullet in your head’, before he shot him

Youths hurled fireworks and stones at police and torched cars on the fringes of a march in a Paris suburb in memory of a 17-year-old French-Algerian boy shot by police.

The youths disrupted the march, which was led by the teenager’s mother. She and most of the more than 6,000 people who were taking part dispersed after violence broke out, leaving the troublemakers to face armed and helmeted police. Palls of acrid black smoke rose from burning, overturned cars.

France will mobilise 40,000 police officers across the country this evening to deal with the protests.

More video at Fdesouche – Second night of riots everywhere in France. Official buildings attacked, police hunted down, businesses set on fire…

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Riots in France after police kill teen in traffic stop

Protests and unrest erupted in the Paris region overnight after police shot dead a 17-year-old who failed to stop when ordered to by traffic police.

Video circulating on social media shows a police officer pointing a gun at the driver of a car, before a gunshot is heard. The car then crashes to a stop.

The teenager, named as Nahel, died of bullet wounds in the chest despite help from emergency services.

The officer accused of shooting him has been detained on homicide charges.

Firefighters chased away

Fdesouche has more video – Ongoing riots in Nanterre, prefecture attacked, school in flames: the riots spread to the Paris suburbs and to the provinces… In Mantes-la-Jolie, the town hall of Val Fourré was set on fire

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Looking for Mr Far Right: the dating site for French ‘patriots’

In France you can now swipe far right.

A new dating site launched this month is aimed at nationalists, “patriots” and those who yearn for a return to traditional gender roles. It specifically welcomes French people whose views veer to the extreme right, who, polling suggests, may need help finding a mate.

According to a recent survey by the polling organisation Ifop, 58 per cent of French people would refuse to sleep with a far-right sympathiser and 65 per cent would rule out becoming their partner.

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Bordeaux: Arrest Made in Violent Attack on 73-Year-Old & Granddaughter

“The images of a little girl and her grandmother attacked in broad daylight in Bordeaux are unbearable,” Marine Le Pen said. “How many videos like this does it take for the power to react?”

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The French Women’s Nightmare

Sexual harassment by “Maghrebi types.”

Migrants – which in France today means, overwhelmingly, maghrébins, or Muslim Arabs from North Africa — commit 48% of the rapes in Paris and 55% in Marseille. Muslims make up 10% of the French population, but more than 50% of the prison population. Recently, a feminist collective posted videos of French women for whom sexual harassment by “Maghrebi types” has become a common, and nightmarish, occurrence. More on their experiences can be found here: “‘It is always the Maghrebi types who follow, whistle at, and insult me’ – French women recount their experience with sexual harassment from foreigners,” by John Cody, Remix News, June 5, 2023 …

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France: Submission to Islamism Quickly Gaining Ground

Avignon France – City of Popes

May 16, 2023. The French examining magistrates in charge of the case of the murder of Samuel Paty, a high school teacher savagely beheaded on October 16, 2020 in Conflans Sainte Honorine, a small city in the suburbs of Paris where he taught, reveal the list of those they have decided to indict.

The list of 14 people does not include the murderer, Abdullakh Anzorov: he was shot dead by police. Prior to Paty’s murder, his name was in the database of the Central Office for the Fight against Crime, but he had not been placed under police surveillance. He was a Chechen Muslim, age 18, with refugee status in France, and had sought to join Islamic terrorist organizations in the Middle East. Two young French radicalized Muslims, Azim Epsirkhanov and Naïm Boudaoud, had accompanied him to a store where he bought a hunting knife to cut off his victim’s head. Both men told the investigators that they knew what Abdullakh Anzorov wanted to do and that they approved of it. They are being prosecuted for “criminal association”. Their prison sentence will not exceed 10 years; they will be eligible for release after seven or eight years — dismayingly little.

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