The damp and warmer-than-normal weather that afflicted much of France last week was a disappointment for skiers hoping to see in the new year in the Alps. But it has brought welcome relief to those in charge of keeping the country’s lights on.
The threat of power cuts has been looming over France — curious considering that it is normally a significant exporter of electricity, thanks to its 56 nuclear reactors, by far the largest number of Europe.
New Year’s Eve: a gendarmerie barracks attacked, a children’s hostel set on fire, a retired couple and families saved from the flames… (Update: 690 vehicles burned, 490 arrests, no “notable incident” for Darmanin )
“Darmanin” is Gérald Darmanin Minister of The Interior
Below, While @GDarmanin is at winter sports in Mayotte, the city of Bordeaux fell into the hands of scum for this night of December 31
Pendant que @GDarmanin est au sport d’hiver à Mayotte, la ville de Bordeaux est tombée aux mains des racailles pour cette nuit du 31 Décembre pic.twitter.com/sZNosNFCeu
— Réalité Actuelle (@RAbsolument) January 1, 2023
Below, Amiens: Clashes between law enforcement and scum last night in Macron’s hometown – No major incidents for the government. This kind of scene is completely normal.
Amiens : Affrontements entre forces de l'ordre et racailles hier soir dans la ville natale de Macron
Pas d'incidents majeurs pour le gouvernement.
Ce genre de scène est donc complètement normal pic.twitter.com/fvW9ecC14E— Réalité Actuelle (@RAbsolument) January 1, 2023
Recent events in France remind us of the plot of the recently released French film Athena, which tells the story of how the murder of a young Algerian-French boy by the police sparks a civil war in France. Our discussion begins with a devastating spoiler—I highly recommend, therefore, that anyone who has not watched Athena do so before proceeding, as it is, in my estimation, one of the best films to come out in recent memory.
This is not a review, however, and the spoiler I am leading up to—revealed in the very last scene—is key to the present discussion: For after the violence and tragedy of the plot have run their course, we learn that it was not police officers who murdered the lad, but some criminals belonging to a far-right group disguised as police, precisely in order to coax immigrant communities into rioting against security forces and so initiate a civil war.
French police have detained a suspect in the hit-and-run death of a teenage boy during celebrations of France’s win over Morocco in the World Cup semi-finals, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
A man was detained on Tuesday near the southern city of Perpignan, prosecutors said.
The 14-year-old boy, Aymen, was killed on 15 December in the Paillade district, one of the poorer areas of the southern city of Montpellier.
In Montpellier in the south of France a 14 year old Moroccan was killed by a car driven by a gypsy. The Moroccans had surrounded the car.
After the France-Morocco match about 50 Moroccans raided the gypsy encampment, one was stabbed in the neck. pic.twitter.com/yqFupqiU2E
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) December 19, 2022
Turkey on Monday summoned France’s ambassador over “anti-Turkey propaganda” that it alleged French officials did little to stop following the killing of three Kurds in Paris.
Friday’s shooting was followed by days of protests by Kurdish groups and their supporters in the French capital.
Some of the protesters waved flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey and its Western allies.
Others held banners with slogans accusing Turkey of being a killer state and connected to the shooting.
The French man detained over the killing of three Kurdish people in Paris last week has told investigators he had a “pathological” hatred of foreigners, the city’s prosecutor said on Sunday.
The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after shooting dead two men and a woman in a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in the 10th district of Paris, which the French president, Emmanuel Macron, described as a “vile” attack on the Kurds of France.
Christmas Eve in the city of love as immigrant Kurds team up with others to destroy Paris.
Isn't Diversity Wonderful? pic.twitter.com/wf3tU2FJHp
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) December 24, 2022
Police and protesters clashed in Paris for a second day after a man on Dec. 23 opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and killed three people. A 69-year-old suspect shooter, who was wounded and detained, had since been removed from custody for health reasons.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said in an update on Dec. 24 that the suspect was moved to a police psychiatric facility. Questioning of the suspect was halted on medical grounds prior to his transfer. The man will be presented to an investigating magistrate when his health permits, according to the update.
Import the third-world
Become the third-world!!Kurds in Paris pic.twitter.com/BG1pVQtf7Z
— UK Justice Forum 🇬🇧 Latest Video News Updates! (@Justice_forum) December 24, 2022
La tension monte d’un cran avec des centaines de projectiles en direction des forces de l’ordre en marge de la manifestation kurde. pic.twitter.com/8alFyUxYY7
— Remy Buisine (@RemyBuisine) December 24, 2022
Kurds protesting in Paris.
The third world has arrived into the first. The problem is that it doesn’t average to a second world, it turns the first world into a third world. pic.twitter.com/P65mpMN2ZD— Bushels Per Acre (@BushelsPerAcre) December 24, 2022
The video says undeclared civil war.
But this is the CBC’s headline – Kurds, anti-racism groups rally in Paris after 3 killed in cultural centre shooting
Peace has returned to Montpellier after a meeting between imams and heads of gypsy clans
… As Métropolitain revealed this Friday, the community of sedentary gypsies here, the target of very violent punitive expeditions on Thursday evening, must meet Aymen’s family, starting this evening, after Fernand Maraval, known as Yaka, has been received by the imams of Mosson and Petit Bard and after a meeting in the prefecture of Hérault which took place at the beginning of the afternoon. Yaka Maraval and the gypsy victims who had the apartments ransacked, set on fire, as well as two trucks and a car, “do not understand why no police protection measures had been put in place on Thursday evening” to prevent 250 to 300 young people armed with Kalashnikovs and iron bars invest without problem the residence Jupiter , to commit abuses, having terrorized parents and children.
Below – how #Aymen met his demise.
Shocking moment a 14-year-old Morocco football fan killed in Montpellier after a car with French flag ran over him shortly after France’s World Cup semi-final victory over Morocco. pic.twitter.com/GqH8qo3PVp
— PressTV Extra (@PresstvExtra) December 15, 2022
🇫🇷#France
▪️ Moroccan migrants continue their rampage of destruction in #Montpellier
▪️ #Arabs declare an all-out race war on Gypsies
▪️The far-left government & media continues to blame the “ultra-right”
▪️ Generation identitaire makes a return to confront #Moroccan rioters pic.twitter.com/2VYBDv1mYk
— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) December 17, 2022
A gunman has opened fire in central Paris, killing three people and wounding four others.
Witnesses said the attacker targeted a Kurdish community centre and restaurant and prosecutors said they would look into a possible racist motive.
A suspect aged 69 was quickly arrested and it soon emerged he was freed from custody recently.
Authorities appealed for people to avoid the area in Strasbourg-Saint Denis in the 10th district of Paris.
There is no confirmed motive for the shooting, but Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau confirmed that that the suspect had just been released, a year after he had attacked tents at a migrant camp in Paris with a sword.
🔴BREAKING: Shooting that targeted a Kurdish restaurant and hair salon kills three people in central Paris.
FRANCE 24's @cloviscasali is on the ground with the details ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/RgHeSu9Bss
— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) December 23, 2022
The European Court of Human Rights rejected the appeal of former French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, who was convicted in France for “inciting discrimination and religious hatred” over comments targeting the French Muslim community.
“The court held that the interference with the applicant’s right to freedom of expression had been necessary in a democratic society to protect the rights of others that were at stake,” the ECHR wrote in a statement released Tuesday.
All eight defendants have been found guilty over the July 2016 lorry attack in the southern French city of Nice in which 86 people were killed.
Seven men and a woman were sentenced by a special court in Paris to jail terms ranging from two to 18 years.
Three were convicted of association with a terrorist, while five others were found guilty of supplying weapons.
The attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, was shot dead after driving a lorry into crowds on Bastille Day.
The French president has said condoms will be made available for free in pharmacies for 18- to 25-year-olds in an attempt to reduce unwanted pregnancies among young people.
“It’s a small revolution for contraception,” Emmanuel Macron announced during a health debate with young people in Fontaine-le-Comte, a suburb of Poitiers in western France.
Makes you wonder which yutes he is targeting.
France has been accused of helping to fund Vladimir Putin’s war effort by continuing to import nuclear fuel from Russia.
Greenpeace on Friday called it “scandalous” that uranium was still being bought by European companies to be used in nuclear power stations across the continent.
The campaigning charity this week filmed the arrival of dozens of drums of uranium, both raw and enriched, from Russia at the northern French port of Dunkirk.
A new opinion survey has revealed that just over 1 in 10 French citizens believe that migrants represent an “opportunity” for the country, while nearly 4 in 10 consider migration a “threat” to the nation.
The poll, carried out by the Consumer Science & Analytics (CSA) Institute for French news outlet CNEWS, was published on Thursday, November 17th, and showed that 38% of the French public regard migrants as a “threat,” while 13% see them as an “opportunity,” and 48% believe that they are neither, Valeurs Actuelles reports.
The polling data comes as the arrival of the Ocean Viking, an NGO migrant transport ship to the port of Toulon, has rekindled the heated debate over migration, which like elsewhere in the world remains a highly charged and divisive issue.
