ER Editor: Lest the wrong impression be given, the photo provided below by RT is probably an old one. Crowds can no longer get anywhere near Macron (hardly a surprise as he’s detested, whoever he actually is – think: Biden). This France 24 video of the parade (go to the 6-7 minute) explains how ‘most’ of the spectators are actually family members of some 5,000 people participating in the parade. In other words, it’s all been set up to make sure there was no disorder from a very unhappy population. Macron’s appearances have long been rigged to ensure only sympathetic people welcome him.
We still believe there are movie elements to all of this. The article below correctly identifies the total impasse France has arrived at, especially after the alleged police shooting of one young man called Nahel while driving a car last month. A plausible case can be made for the false flag aspect of this so-called shooting, which almost instantly inflamed predictable activist groups (Antifa / BLM) and politicians. It isn’t obvious that the deep state is behind it. What’s clearer is that the country is being continuously brought to almost-boiling point and kept there (think: retirement protests once ‘Covid’ had died down).
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France’s denial day: Everyone understands why the country was engulfed in protests, but the authorities hush up the problem
After days of extremely violent riots, France enjoyed a relatively peaceful Bastille Day. It could be the last calm before the storm.
MATTHIEU BUGE
Riots started in France after the death of Nahel, a teenager of North African origin shot by a policeman. While chaos raged in the country under the astonished eyes of the rest of the world, and while travelers canceled their summer bookings in one of the most touristic countries in the world, politicians and journalists struggled to maintain a narrative that would not point to the main source of the problem – mass immigration.
In 2022, after the disastrous events around the Stade de France during the Liverpool-Real Madrid final, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin accused British hooligans of being responsible for the chaos, triggering a diplomatic crisis. In 2023, Darmanin doubled down. During hearings at the Senate, he explained that, while touring police offices during those infamous nights, he noticed in the lists of arrested youngsters “a lot of Kevin and Matteo.” (ER: tip — French ‘elites’, on whatever level, never admit to being wrong unless it stares everybody in the face)
‘Youngsters’ is the usual politically correct word used in France to talk about children of immigration living in the suburbs of big cities. The French mainstream media followed the same script, with BFM TV publishing a list of the most frequent surnames among the rioters: 80% were typical French or Celtic names. While the rioters might have included some Kevins and Matteos, this insistence from politics and the media let the cat out of the bag. The denial is such that, while the French press easily talks about ‘racial riots’ when it comes to the US, French journalists exclusively use the expression ‘urban riots’ to describe the situation in France.
To appease minds, official voices had to insist on the fact that it was not a problem of immigration, and the rare courageous ones who dared to do so have been, obviously, immediately forced to walk the hall of shame for being racists, fascists, white supremacists, ultra-rightists… choose whatever you want in the current lexicon of the Western ruling class. The French public has to stay still, while politicians use empty expressions such as ‘the need for solidarity’ and pour millions in order to have shopkeepers, companies, individuals affected by the chaos to keep quiet and repair destroyed infrastructure, which will once again be burned down during the next round of riots. No conclusions should be drawn. Please, everybody, put your head in the sand. Some lamented. A despaired woman could not understand why ‘youngsters’ would set fire to the house dedicated to them where she worked. The irony is that degradation of infrastructure dedicated to the youth happens every day in France. Unlike Russia, a multi-ethnic empire that built itself organically during centuries, unlike the US, a vast federation of states that built itself on immigration, France has suddenly been taking in an enormous amount of people of non-European origins in recent decades. To hope for a rapid integration of this people, to expect their adaptation to ‘the values of the Republic’ is sheer wishful thinking.
The demographic balance of power is slowly but surely shifting in France, and the authorities are facing a challenge they created themselves. Collecting ethnic data is in principle forbidden in France (ER: for the university researcher, &etc. but we doubt if the government itself doesn’t have a shrewd idea of what ethnic groupings are there and to what degree). However, during his hearing in the Senate, Darmanin said, it’s not possible to pass a law on immigration because the rioters were born 17-20 years ago, so, as he put it, “it’s too late.” (ER: convenient excuse no. 25)
Every time riots erupt in France, they get more serious. In 2005, chaos started after the death of two teenagers of African origin who hid in a power station to flee the police. The riots lasted for three weeks. In 2023, it lasted for five days, but the intensity of the violence was incomparable. To add a comic-tragic overtone to this description of the French authorities’ incompetence, according to some, drug dealers played a major role in putting an end to the mayhem. (ER: Also the military surreptitiously according to this report — Military seen helping anti-riot efforts in France)
What to expect next? What to expect next, when we see that, in addition, political elites stubbornly try to push their absurd and unnatural LGBT agenda, something that the newcomers from Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, etc. will never accept?
History might repeat itself. Maybe Macron, or his successor, will end up in a situation similar to the one Louis XVI found himself in. “Is this a rebellion?” the king asked. “No, Sir, this is a revolution,” his minister answered.
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Matthieu Buge has worked on Russia for the magazine l’Histoire, the Russian film magazine Séance, and as a columnist for Le Courrier de Russie. He is the author of the book Le Cauchemar russe (‘The Russian Nightmare’).
Featured image, video captures: France 24
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NO, Mr. Buge, French “leaders” and “authorities” are NOT in “complete denial of the situation”…
What’s happening instead is just as TLB staff mentioned in their intro above your re-posted article – “the country is being continuously brought to almost-boiling point and kept there…” This is all deliberate. The psychos above the French “leaders” – in other words, the REAL “leaders” over France – are deliberately stoking the fires and waiting until the moment they feel is “right” until they direct the French “leaders” to do something particularly “stupid”, then the rioters will riot away…
And, my guesstimate is that that will be used as the excuse to institute Martial Law. This same ploy is being used in many “Western” countries, like here in the USA. It’s actually quite transparent.