In hindsight, the notorious protests by secondary school pupils seem like an amusement park for barbarians.
Everyone is happy, because the van carrying the new schoolbooks has arrived.
The images from these hours are not a report on a protest, but documentation of a breakdown.
Paris:
Whilst classic guerrilla warfare was taking place in Milan’s Cathedral Square, one of Feltrinelli’s bookshops in Turin was looted. I don’t want to be malicious, I just hope that they at least tore down the section on literature about immigration.
Last night, a Spanish journalist was reporting live from the streets of Paris when a group surrounded her and made a gesture in front of the camera symbolising slitting her throat. It was the same gesture that was made during the last Eurovision Song Contest.
Four years ago I wrote: ‘The civil war isn’t a film; it’s reality that the media won’t let us see”.
And if you don’t trust me, read what Albert Camus wrote in 1957:
‘In the long term, all the continents (yellow, black …) will pour into old Europe. There are hundreds upon hundreds of millions of them. Europe believes in nothing. We must wait for a renaissance or a miracle. As for me, it is becoming increasingly difficult to live in front of a wall.”
Or take the word of a former Prime Minister, the centrist politician François Bayrou: ‘The term “flood” is the most appropriate. It is not the words that are shocking, it is the reality.’
But before we watch ten more shocking videos, let’s look at the shocking figures.
France Strategy, a body attached to the French Prime Minister’s office, has published a shocking study.
There are 25 towns in France where the proportion of young people from non-European backgrounds lies between 70 and 79 per cent. Sixty French towns have a proportion of 50 per cent or more of children and young people aged 0–18 from non–European background. Such as Marseille. ‘One final point to bear in mind’, writes Le Figaro: ‘The grandchildren of immigrants – the third generation – are not included in the figures.’ In summary, Le Figaro concludes, “the symbolic 50 per cent threshold has already been exceeded in around sixty towns and in hundreds of neighbourhoods.”
How can it be that Jews are on the verge of disappearing?
The dream of the Great Replacement does not smell of mothballs, unlike in 1968.
A report on all this could begin with the end: Paris after the riots.
Let’s take a look at the morning.
This is the first time in human history that foreign armies have been voluntarily allowed onto one’s own territory. They are then fed, given shelter and funded. When they begin to wage war against the population, with looting, robbery, arson, murder and rape, people merely stand by as somewhat complacent spectators.
Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of humankind. There isn’t even a term for such a scale of treachery. Until now, no one could have imagined it.
If far-right groups were responsible for even one-thousandth of what we are seeing today from Paris to Milan, the media would be on a constant loop about ‘dark times for democracy’. Instead, there is a climate of self-censorship and complacency.
The town hall tower in Limoges collapses following the fire.
This is how it was before the barbarians attacked. That Europe is gone:
They are the same people who set fire to both churches and synagogues.
I wrote recently that the police are our last line of defence against the barbarians, but in Paris the police are running away.
The tourist office in Lyon is set alight.
In Marseille, the town hall is attacked to cries of ‘It’s a revolution, let’s storm the Bastille’. Inside the building, the statue of Marianne is toppled.
The West had built its cities on the distinction between those who belong and those who are guests, on the law that applies to all, and on respect for symbols that take precedence over opinions. When you let in a mass of people who share neither the law nor the symbols and refuse to recognise them, the result is not integration. The barbarians no longer come with armies. They come as ‘residents’.
The situation has led the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut to compare Paris with Beirut. Beirut was once ‘the Paris of the Middle East’. Today, Paris is ‘the Beirut of Europe’.
In Bordeaux, it emerged that RAID had been deployed to restore law and order. I would remind you that RAID is an elite unit tasked with counter-terrorism. That is how far we have come.
“I was convinced that the return of the right to power in France would trigger a civil war”, writes the Israeli minister Amichai Chikli. “It turns out I was being optimistic: It has already begun! I hope that France prevails over barbarism, despite the country’s betrayal of Israel. Belgium and the UK, you’ll probably be next. Get ready!”
Italy must also get ready.
What does all this remind you of? A riot. This is not social unrest: it is a seething, blind fury, a thirst for bloodshed.
Where was the state? ‘On its knees.’
I don’t understand what Emmanuel Macron is up to, apart from singing at Céline Dion’s concert in Paris last night. Never has the saying ‘Nero plays the harp whilst Rome burns’ been more true.
What are the preconditions for civil war?
- A deep crisis of legitimacy: An ever-increasing proportion of the population no longer believes that those in political power are acting in the public interest.
- Social tensions: Decline in social status, poverty amongst the middle class, rising energy costs, unemployment, a sense of abandonment, failure on the part of the authorities, lack of security.
- Political opponents are regarded as enemies: Those who think differently from ‘the good side’ are branded as threats.
- Groups prepared to use violence: Violence becomes the very purpose of the demonstrations.
- Breakdown of law and order: Abandoned by those in power, the police and the army refuse to continue exposing themselves to danger, or withdraw.
- The role of the media: Gross untruths are spread as indisputable facts. Reality and facts are denied by gullible and biased individuals.
- Trigger: A terrorist attack, the passing of a controversial law, oppression, a mass crime, the murder of a popular figure.
The Russian Civil War was the result of a combination of political, military and social crises that were exacerbated by the First World War. Russia exhibited virtually all the symptoms mentioned above:
- Food shortages, inflation and social crisis.
- Loss of confidence in the tsarist regime: the regime appeared incapable of meeting the country’s vital needs.
- Soldiers rebelled, deserted or refused to obey orders.
- Radicalisation and fanaticism.
Of course, history never repeats itself, but the same causes lead to the same effects.
Do the French want a Palestinian state?
Here it is, not on the West Bank, but on the left bank of the Seine. Joan of Arc wearing a veil and the flag of the terrorists’ state, the flag that symbolises decay, wherever you look at it.
Perhaps Camus is right, and ‘we must wait for a renaissance or a miracle’.
But it is not five minutes to midnight: the clock tower collapsed whilst it was striking.
