Do you hear the people sing? No, I don’t, but I do smell the ashes.
France is nearly in civil war. This past weekend, riots broke out in nearly every major city in the country, as mobs burned and pillaged everywhere they went. More than half a million people took part in the riots, with local law enforcement all across the nation trying their best to contain the angry mob to little avail. They arrested roughly 2,500 people, injuring over 1,000 cops in the process.
Nevertheless, the BBC “did the meme,” calling the riots “mostly peaceful.”
The spark began with a couple of youth organizations supposedly protesting poor conditions in public schools, but the protests caught on with both major chaos organizations and opportunistic looters. Fox News recently investigated the riots and found that 54 separate organizations were the driving force behind the riots. Most weren’t even youth organizations; 38 were adult-led groups.
Nearly all of these groups ranged from communist organizations and revolutionary socialist groups to labor unions, Muslim activists, and Palestinian solidarity groups.
Even a major French political party has jumped into action. A far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is on the French presidential ballot. Mélenchon is the leader of France Unbowed, an extreme socialist movement that has consistently supported the riots, even featuring its own elected officials joining the rioting. Mélenchon has publicly condemned the riots to save face, but blames “government incompetence” for them.
The destruction France has seen in recent days is unlike anything in decades. Paris experienced mass looting and destruction. The monument at Place de la République was defaced, and the French tricolor that normally flies above it had been replaced with the Palestinian flag. Even the statue of Joan of Arc, long seen as a revered revolutionary, was vandalized. Marseille’s city hall was overrun, and a bust of Marianne, a French symbol, was shattered. Many buildings in Lyon and Montpellier were set ablaze, and most notably, a beautiful, centuries-old town hall in the small city of Limoges was burned to ashes.
French President Emmanuel Macron was naturally appalled by the situation, but he made an unintentionally hilariously comment: “Looking at these images, we have all asked ourselves: What was going through their minds? How can French people do this to France?”
The obvious answer is that these are not French people.
Due to France’s open border policies with North Africa, the nation has invited the worst immigration crisis in today’s Europe, which is a high bar to be sure, and French citizens are suffering the consequences.
While some of the organizations behind the riots may be French nationals, the hired muscle they have sent to destroy France has been overwhelmingly foreign Muslim. Even President Donald Trump extended his condolences and implored France to take immigration policy more seriously. “The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country,” he said. “Close your Borders and take control before it is too late!”
The red-green alliance, the term for this kind of phenomenon, is effectively the mission that extreme socialists or communists and Muslims partake in together. Both groups typically have a common enemy, whether it be conservatives, Christians, or even simply normal people who are making a productive life for themselves.
In this situation, the red side is trying to take power through elective office, led by leftist candidate Mélenchon. Despite troubles in the Macron government, the extremists need to make themselves seem more electable. So they turn an otherwise normal protest into mass riots by enabling the green side, the radical Muslims, to basically have a field day destroying France. Manufacturing excess devastation with a fake narrative to elect yourself is straight out of the Nazi playbook, and it’s a truly despicable way to campaign.
All in all, France is in a lot of trouble right now. The country has hit a low point not seen in decades. In the aftermath, the people will choose the nation’s future. Time will tell if they make the right decision.
