“Could it happen here? I suppose that’s the thought many of us have had in the back of our minds whilst watching France burn. And the immediate answer is: Why shouldn’t it?”, writes Douglas Murray in The Spectator:
Of all the things that have been hardest to communicate in my life, this seems the most impossible: that our civilisation is not, by some law of nature, immortal. It has no right or likelihood to continue existing if it insists on committing harakiri. The people who are welcomed onto our airwaves, work in parts of our government and lead some of our political parties include those who would burn down this country in a heart-beat. They would look us in the eyes and kill us. And we know that because they have done it elsewhere.
They don’t do it at the moment because the time is not right. But when they feel it is, they will act. At which point I suppose people will have to decide whether they wish to be spectators at their own funeral pyre or not.
Could this happen elsewhere?
It has just happened in Bilbao in Spain.
This is what’s happening whilst the media remains silent.
“Marie Antoinette never said ‘Let them eat cake’, but Emmanuel Macron and his wife were filmed in private viewing areas during a concert by Céline Dion the evening before the protests escalated into violence”, writes William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal:
Today Louis Vuitton stores appear more resilient than the French government, with hammer-wielding and rock-throwing rioters failing to breach their showroom windows.
But they are managing to break into Galeries Lafayette.
For the demonstrations on 24 October, the police’s elite unit RAID and the gendarmerie’s elite unit GIGN mobilised, and the Sentinelle alert put into action: 70,000 security personnel were deployed to ensure that the scenes of 17 October were not repeated. But they will be repeated over the next two weekends.
It was the police, our last bulwark against barbarism, who had to face the Molotov cocktails.
Nicolas Baverez provides an initial summary:
“On 17 October, France plunged into chaos with looting in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Nice, Bordeaux, Rennes and Limoges. The toll is appalling: two dead, 1,000 police officers and gendarmes injured, seven of them seriously; damage amounting to 1.2 billion euros, of which 850 million was to the business sector; 200 million to public infrastructure and 100 million to private property. The state has completely lost control. France is not yet in a state of civil war, but there is no longer peace in society.”
And Baverez is a liberal intellectual.
As the security expert Éric Delbecque explains: “The far left has a theory of using vulnerable neighbourhoods to advance its cause.” In an interview with L’Express, Delbecque also explains that ‘France will need ten years to regain control of the deprived neighbourhoods’.
This is what it looks like at the Élysée Palace.
Former Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, had foreseen this and warned that France was heading towards a ‘collapse’ of such magnitude that ‘one day it will require troops to protect the Élysée Palace’.
That day has come.
Marc, Ibrahima, Mathis, Boubacar, Sidy, Djibril, Sekhou, Diokira, Ken Itchi, Mahmoud, Francisco, Zacharie, Johan, Adama, Doumassi, Ali, Mohamed, Yacine, Fousseyni, Messaoud, Meftah, Rayan, Saïd Brahim…
These are the first names of those arrested for a single incident of looting in Paris.
In a lengthy interview with Le Figaro on Monday, the former head of intelligence Pierre Brochand:
‘Nothing that is happening now comes as a surprise. Except to those who – out of naivety, hypocrisy or ideology – have refused to see the clouds that heralded the storm. In previous interviews, I have emphasised the devastating effect that looting has on a country’s stability. Just as with a ‘run on the banks’ during a currency crisis, this simple and epidemic approach proves to be a weapon of mass destruction against the foundations of social trust, which is the foundation of everyone’s happiness. Once the process is underway, it becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, to stop once the scale exceeds a certain threshold. The combined attacks from the far left and the ‘lumpenproletariat’ in the suburbs give no indication that they intend to stop. Our future is inevitably characterised by a majority of births of non-European origin by 2040 and within the population by 2070. What I know about the world leads me to conclude that such a scenario will not be characterised by goodwill. Immigration and the baggage it has brought with it have laid glowing magma beneath our society. These eruptions have already occurred. They are likely to recur, with increased frequency and intensity, in an increasingly distrustful climate, as the relentless demographic bulldozer advances. In my view, this is, unfortunately, a certainty rather than a forecast’.
Stratfor has published a report that ought to be on the desks of all European governments:
‘According to estimates from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a quarter of the French population and more than a third of the German population will be of Muslim origin by 2050. This will shape these countries’ domestic and foreign policies’.
We used to read about the ‘barricades of Paris’ in our school textbooks.
By removing external borders, we are multiplying internal borders.
This development was never foreseen by intelligent but globalist intellectuals such as Bernard-Henri Lévy, who now tells Wall Street Journal that he ‘fears civil war’.
Those who have seen war at close quarters had warned us.
Patrick Calvar, head of the domestic intelligenceservice (DGSI), was the first member of a parliamentary committee to say: ‘We are on the brink of a civil war’.
In 2020, Chief of Staff Pierre de Villiers warned of “civil war”.
In 2021 twenty generals and hundreds of officers called on France to halt its ‘disintegration and Islamisation’.
Just one year ago, two of these generals, André Coustou and Paul Pellizzari, were dismissed for having signed this letter.
Also in 2021, two thousand serving military personnel published a new letter to Macron in which they warned that France was on the brink of collapse.
The servicemen, who remained anonymous to avoid sanctions such as those imposed on the generals, stated that they had served in Africa and Afghanistan and taken part in Operation Sentinelle. “Many of us have come under enemy fire,” they wrote in the letter, which was signed by 109,000 people.
“Some of us have lost comrades who sacrificed their lives to combat Islamism, to whom you are now yielding on our own territory. We have seen the derelict suburbs with our own eyes. We marched on 14 July. We see that hatred of France and its history is becoming the norm.”
These military personnel compare their situation to that of 1940: “By failing to react, you are surrendering entire neighbourhoods in our country to the law of the strongest.” This decline, they write,
‘is something we have seen in many countries in crisis, and it precedes collapse. It heralds chaos and violence, and contrary to what you claim, this chaos and violence will not stem from a ‘military declaration’, but from a civil uprising. Yes, if a civil war breaks out, the military will maintain order in the country, because they will be asked to do so’.
This is the definition of civil war.
‘No one can wish for such a terrible situation, but civil war is looming in France, and you know that perfectly well. Take action, ladies and gentlemen. This time, it is not about ready-made phrases or media coverage. It is about the survival of our country, of your country.”
This was followed by a new appeal from officers in Journal du Dimanche.
They sent a 21-page document to all political parties:
‘A hybrid war has been declared against us. It is multifaceted and will, at best, end in a civil war, or at worst in a crushing defeat with no future.”
A year ago, the former Chief of the Defence Staff de Villiers warned once again: “War will return to our territory.”
As I have explained to Strumenti politici:
‘We still have a little time to do something, but we must not lull ourselves into the illusion that the wind is not carrying the fire from the blazes. The fire in France is caused by phenomena affecting all the countries of Western Europe. Sooner or later we will be hit, for the flames are right on our borders. We are living on the fringes of the Roman Empire 2.0, and it is on the verge of collapse: we too will be drawn into it. The ship is sinking, but the orchestra is still playing.”
Richard Kemp, who has commanded British troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans and NorthernIreland, says that “we are heading for civil war”.
Meanwhile, the canary in the coal mine is taking flight.
“50,000 Jews will leave France in the near future.”
It will take less than ten years.
We have preferred to listen to the sociologists who talk about ‘difficulties’, the academics who talk about ‘inclusion’ and the journalists who are obsessed with the ‘far right’.
Perhaps it would have been wiser to listen to those who have seen the war at close quarters, and who had warned us that the front line would move into our cities.
