RIOTS in France: Diversity strikes again!



While the George Floyd riots may be over in America, they seem to have just started in France.

“It almost seems like France is experiencing their own ‘Summer of Love’ that infamously happened after George Floyd’s death on video went viral,” Lauren Chen comments.

French police are under the activists' microscope now after Nahel M, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot and killed last week by a police officer. The boy was attempting to flee a traffic stop in a Paris suburb.

In the video of the shooting, police officers are seen pulling Nahel over before he attempts to drive away. One officer is pointing a gun at Nahel and fires as the boy begins to flee.

That officer has been detained on homicide charges as an investigation is conducted.

Riots and protests have since erupted across French cities, with hundreds of cars and buildings being destroyed and looted — and some law enforcement officials are even calling it a civil war.

Chen is not convinced that the protesters are in the right.

“What exactly does protesting against alleged police brutality have to do with looting? Well, that’s a question that some of us have been asking since America’s own BLM protest — but I guess the mystery continues to evade us.”

Chen believes the real reason behind the situation in France goes much deeper than the shooting of Nahel.

“If you ask me,” Chen begins, “what we are currently seeing in France is the result of cultural unrest that has been breeding for years and years, that is the result of an open-borders policy.”


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Here’s What You Need To Know About France’s ‘Summer Of Love’ Riots

The ongoing situation in France bears a striking resemblance to the Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence that engulfed American cities following the May 2020 death of George Floyd.

Eyewitness reveals the REAL reason for the riots in France



France has gone up in flames yet again — this time for protests and riots related to a police shooting of a 17-year-old boy on June 27.

This incident sparked nearly a week of violence, looting, and mass turmoil in many French cities.

Ezra Levant, Rebel News Founder, is currently visiting Marseilles, France, and he phones in to "The Glenn Beck Program” to share his findings.

His news isn’t encouraging.

Levant doesn’t think the upheaval in France is due exclusively to a single, police-related incident, however. He believes there’s a much deeper issue at play–an issue revolving around the ever-growing ethnic divide in France.

Levant reports that in Marseilles, half the city isn’t faring well, particularly the Muslim half of the city, which Levant describes as “a slum with many migrants” from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, and Turkey.

In this sector of the city, there isn’t much French being spoken. Commerce looks very different than one would expect to see in France’s oldest and second largest city. There are almost no women present, and the few who do roam the streets wear traditional abayas, even though France has banned face-covering veils.

But what Levant finds most unsettling is the fact that many of the immigrants who call Marseilles home openly identify with their country of origin over their new residence in France.

Levant spoke with several individuals and families about this issue.

“The French don’t respect us” and “the French don’t treat us equally” were among the common answers Levant received when he asked how they liked their new lives in France.

“In your heart, are you a French person first or an Algerian first?” he asked several of them.

“Most of them, without hesitating, said, 'Algerian,'” Levant reports.

“How can you be upset that the French don’t welcome you fully as an equal Frenchman when you yourself refuse to give up where you were?” he asks.

Between France’s declining birth rate and continued mass immigration, Levant thinks it’s only a matter of time before Marseilles becomes “more like a Moroccan city than a French city.”

Glenn agrees with Levant and expresses his growing concern about the rejection of assimilation going on not only in France but in other European countries and the United States as well.

Let’s be clear, though, Glenn has a deep appreciation for American immigrants. “They’re the ones who chose America,” he says.

“I want immigrants” who “want to be Americans.”

“I don’t want an Italian coming in and saying, ‘I want an Italian community, and we’re going to have our own rules and our own ways,'” he explains. “No. [Bring] your culture with you but become an American.”

Perhaps the violence and chaos in France has more to do with pent-up frustration related to ethnic tension rather than an isolated injustice.

Listen to Ezra and Glenn’s full conversation here.


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Emmanuel Macron caught on video dancing at Elton John concert as fiery riots ravaged France



French President Emmanuel Macron was caught on video tapping his toes at the Elton John concert on Wednesday while at the same time, the city was being ravaged by fiery riots.

Video was posted to social media of Macron dancing to the hit song "Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting" during Elton John's concert at the Accor Arena in Paris, France.

Macron also took a photo with Elton John, his husband David Furnish, and first lady of France Brigitte Macron. Furnish posted the photo with the first couple on his Instagram, but it has since been reportedly deleted.

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While Macron was dancing at Elton John's "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" concert, there were explosive riots in Paris and other French cities. On Thursday night, riots erupted across France as a violent reaction to the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old motorist of Algerian and Moroccan heritage during a traffic stop.

Since Tuesday, rioters have launched fireworks, attacked police officers, looted stores, cars set ablaze, and set fire to government buildings.

Violent riots continued to ravage France on Saturday.

The French Interior Ministry said more than 1,300 people were arrested on the fourth night of riots, compared to 875 arrests the previous night. France's justice minister, Eric Dupont-Moretti, said 30% of the 1,311 people arrested overnight were under the age of 18.

There were also 2,560 fires reported on public roads, 1,350 cars burned, and over 700 businesses damaged.

France activated 45,000 police across the country on Saturday night.

The riots were so severe that Macron was forced to cancel his state visit to Germany scheduled for Sunday.

On Saturday, the funeral for the slain motorist was held in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Family and friends gathered at a mosque in Nanterre for the funeral of Nahel Merzouk.

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France dispatches 40,000 cops ahead of third night of riots, looting, and firebombings



France, presently on its fifth republic since 1792, has mobilized an army of 40,000 police to deal with the violent riots that have transformed parts of Paris and the countryside into lawless infernos. 5,000 units will be dispatched to Paris alone.

What's the background?

The riots, looting, and firebombings initially kicked off Tuesday after a French motorbike officer fatally shot a 17-year-old motorist of Algerian and Moroccan heritage. The decedent, who has been identified as Naël M., allegedly sped through a red light and into a traffic jam in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where he apparently refused to comply with orders to stop his rental car.

The Associated Press referenced a possible video of the incident circulating online that appears to show two police officers leaning on the driver side of the rental car.

In the video, Naël, who previously had run-ins with the law over his "refusal to comply," appears to disregard their orders, raise his voice, then veer forward, at which point one officer opens fire.

While Naël hit the gas while an officer was ostensibly leaning on the hood of the vehicle, the media and prosecutors have claimed he had not tried to run them over.

French police are allowed to open fire when they feel their life or physical safety or the life of another individual is at risk; when an area or group of people under their protection are under attack; when they need to prevent a dangerous person from fleeing; "When they are unable to stop a vehicle whose driver has ignored an order to stop and whose occupants are likely to pose a risk to their life or physical safety, or other people’s"; or if doing so may preclude a murder from occurring, reported Al Jazeera.

The officers indicated they feared for the safety of pedestrians and cyclists as Naël had previously ignored their warnings, refused to stop, and had rushed down a bus lane.

Pascal Prache, the Nanterre prosecutor, confirmed Thursday that the 38-year-old officer who shot Naël has been arrested and is presently under investigation on suspicion of murder, reported the Telegraph.

"Conditions for the legal use of a firearm were not met," said Prache, adding that the officer's single shot "went through his right arm and into his chest."

Naël mother claimed, "They took away my baby, he was still a child, he needed his mother," reported the Independent.

The rioting and looting begins

The protests and rioting began Tuesday evening just hours after the news of the shooting went viral.

Although the investigation into the officer who shot Naël was and remains far from concluded, French President Emmanuel Macron rushed to state, "A teenager was killed. That is inexplicable and unforgivable. Nothing can justify the death of a young person."

Marine Le Pen, Macron's rightest opponent and member of the National Rally, suggested the president's remarks were "excessive" and expressed surprise at the "swiftness of this stance."

The Telegraph reported that the Alliance Police Nationale union similarly denounced the president's rush to throw the officer under the bus, stating, "Like certain politicians, artists and others, should flout the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary by condemning our colleagues even before [justice] has been pronounced. ... Like any citizen, [the officer] has the right to the presumption of innocence."

Macron's swift denunciation of the French cop did little to mollify prospective firebombers, looters, and rioters.

Rioters targeted French police with various kinds of incendiary devices.

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Some among the mob looted and pillaged while police, spread thin, desperately tried to restore order.

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The country's interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, indicated that 31 people were arrested the first night of the riots, which saw 25 police officers injured and at least 40 cars torched.

At an emergency meeting, Macron stated, "The last few hours have been marked by scenes of violence against police stations but also schools and town halls, and thus institutions of the Republic and these scenes are wholly unjustifiable."

The mayhem resumed Wednesday, with rioters torching government buildings and attacking police, at least 170 of whom were injured.

Police, including the 2,000 mobilized in the Paris region, and firefighters reportedly struggled throughout the second night of the riots to extinguish the fires.

Darmanin indicated 180 people were arrested, underscoring that the "response of the state must be extremely firm."

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By early Thursday morning, over 100 public buildings were damaged, including the town hall in the Paris suburb of L’Ile-Saint-Denis, and public transportation had been shut down in Paris and the surrounding area, with one official stressing, "Our transports are not targets for thugs and vandals!"

A tram had been torched in Clamart and a bus was set ablaze in the Essonne region south of Paris, reported the Telegraph.

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The New York Times indicated there is presently no sign of the riots dying down.

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