Riots in France: Some perspectives: Links 1 for July 3rd, 2023

1. Amid Widespread Rioting, France Detains Soccer Coach for Making ‘Racist and Islamophobic Remarks’

(This is so Marxist it’s real unreal. The proper headline should be, “The real crime is stating what is true, even as your country burns”. Muslims are the initiators of this genuine kinetic revolution, yet pointing it out is what gets you arrested)

Police in France responded to widespread rioting throughout the country by detaining a soccer coach and his son for allegedly uttering “racist” and “Islamophobic” remarks a year ago. 

Paris Saint Germain coach Christophe Galtier was held for questioning along with his son as part of a probe into alleged discrimination, the Nice prosecutor told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday, June 30. The move comes after an investigation launched in April, following claims he made racist and Islamophobic remarks about players when he coached Nice in the 2021/22 season.

The prosecutor said they would provide more information on the arrests of Galtier and his son – a player’s agent – via a statement later on Friday. Galtier is set to be fired by the Qatari owners of PSG after a largely underwhelming season in which PSG suffered 10 defeats in 2023, exiting the Champions League, the team’s main objective, in the last 16.

The allegations first surfaced in the French media in April. The reports alleged that ex-Nice sporting director Julien Fournier had written an email at the end of the 2021/22 season in which he claimed Galtier had made discriminatory remarks at several members of the Nice squad.

2. French Riots Spread To Belgium, Switzerland, Reports Of Rioters Targeting Christians, Conservatives

Paris, FRANCE – There have been at least 40 attacks on police stations, 270 officers have been wounded, and more than 3,000 rioters have been arrested as violence rocked numerous cities in France for the fifth night in a row following the officer-involved shooting of a Muslim teen.

The riots began in Paris and its suburbs but have spread to other cities and towns across the country.

The violent protests also spread to French-speaking areas in Switzerland and Belgium, according to The Telegraph.

Rioters in Belgium have torched cars and used fireworks as weapons against law enforcement officers who are trying to quell the violence, the Express reported.

3. A man from France comments on the need to not be rescued

4. Macron Demands Platforms Delete Riot Content; Blames Social Media & Video Games For Protest Spread

(Gun ‘control’ information ‘control’ whatever the problem is it will never be what it is and it will become increasingly a crime to say what it is.)

In France, a storm is brewing (again), and French President Emmanuel Macron appears to have figured it all out – it’s social media and video games that are to blame for the ongoing riots in France!

This came following five nights of rioting initially triggered by the fatal police shooting of a Muslim teenager, Nahel M.

Macron’s comments are hardly original, yet they warrant scrutiny from a free speech perspective.

One cannot help but raise an eyebrow as President Macron pleads with social media giants to erase the “most sensitive” content pertaining to the rioting.

With a wave of his hand, he decrees, “platforms and networks are playing a major role in the events of recent days.”

His words, veiled under a guise of concern, echo a familiar tune that has been played on the world stage before.

“We’ve seen them; Snapchat, TikTok and several others, serve as places where violent gatherings have been organized, but there’s also a form of mimicry of the violence which for some young people leads them to lose touch with reality.

“You get the impression that for some of them they are experiencing on the street the video games that have intoxicated them,” he added.

It’s fascinating that social media platforms and video games are often the easiest targets when those in power look for a scapegoat.

It’s like a well-rehearsed performance: when there’s unrest, point fingers at technology.

5. eugyppius substack post: France Burning

The worst of the violence seems to have subsided, but the destruction has been considerable: As of yesterday 600 or more vehicles have been torched and nearly 500 buildings damaged, 74 of which are likewise set on fire, among them the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar in Marseille. There have been at least 20 attacks on police barracks, and even one on the home of L’Hay-les-Roses mayor Vincent Jeanbrun. Rioters crashed a car onto his terrace and attacked his fleeing family with fireworks, putting his wife in hospital. There have been around 2,000 arrests, and as of yesterday perhaps 500 police injuries. Probably the intensity of the violence has been greater than in 2005, but there is hope at least that it will be of shorter duration, with less damage overall.

The right-thinking European press, in its deep originality, has blamed the unrest on racism and a “rhetoric of exclusion,” which we are asked to believe has “become completely normal in France”:

(His Substack is a good read. Occasionally Alex Berenson references it. One might suspect he is a player in the game as they say.)

Thank you all for checking out this site. 

Below, an interesting comment from earlier today:

On the Aufheben of national flags, super fit dies at 30 after 4 shots, Alex Berenson on rising infertility and more: Links 1 for July 2nd, 2023

Thanks very much, appreciate that uni-global “Regime Flag” Utube clip.

This is the source of the first quote, from Bruce Pardy on the Regime of Flags by Wanda Utube clip.

“We” that is the “we”;— so frequently cancel ourselves as becoming the “new normal” in becoming “the dominant ideology”.

… Cultural revolution is complete when the new way of thinking simply becomes the way people think.
The most serious threat to the West is not China or Russia but cultural self-hate.
No coup is more effective than one committed by a people against itself. ….

…….. critical theory philosopher Herbert Marcuse called ”Repressive Tolerance,” whose theme Lindsay encapsulates in one sentence:
“movements from the left must be extended tolerance, even when they are violent,
while movements from the right must not be tolerated, including suppressing them by violence.” …..

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/how-canadas-secular-religion-of-cultural-self-hate-took-hold-bruce-pardy-in-the-national-post/

Then the 2nd quote reading

….. We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble:

“But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.”

We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. We have lost our strength, our pride, our passion. We do not even fear a common nuclear death, do not fear a third world war (perhaps we’ll hide away in some crevice), but fear only to take a civic stance! ……

…… And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies!
Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!

And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies.
For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist.
Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person. ….

……. It will not be an easy path, perhaps, but it is the easiest among those that lie before us.
Not an easy choice for the body, but the only one for the soul.
No, not an easy path, but then we already have among us people, dozens even, who have for years abided by all these rules, who live by the truth.

And so: We need not be the first to set out on this path, Ours is but to join!
The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all!
If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us.
If we will grow to tens of thousands—we will not recognize our country!

[But if we shrink away,] then let us cease complaining that someone does not let us draw breath—we do it to ourselves!
Let us then cower and hunker down, while our comrades the biologists bring closer the day when our thoughts can be read and our genes altered. …..

https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies

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12 Replies to “Riots in France: Some perspectives: Links 1 for July 3rd, 2023”

  1. After 6 Days of Rioting and 700 Injured Cops, Patriots Take to the Streets in France: “Blue, White, Red: France Belongs to the French!”
    By Richard Abelson Jul. 3, 2023 7:15 am466 Comments

    45000 police and security were deployed in France Sunday night as rioting seemed to abate in the sixth night. Local patriot militias also roamed the streets in Lyon and elsewhere. A 24-year-old fire fighter died. A right-wing TV host raised over €1 M for the officer involved in the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M.

    157 arrests were made Sunday night, down from 719 arrests Saturday night, 994 Friday night and 1311 Thursday night. 24-year-old firefighter Dorian Damelincourt died in Saint-Denis trying to fight a fire of several vehicles in an underground car park. A total of 352 fires were recorded: 297 vehicles were burned and 34 buildings set on fire. Three police officers were reported injured.

    After five nights of riots, the Ministry of the Interior recorded about 5,000 vehicles burned, nearly 1,000 buildings damaged, 250 attacks on police stations, and more than 700 police officers injured. About 3,200 have been arrested since Tuesday during the riots.

    The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGNP) denied reports that the police officer involved in the fatal shooting of Nahel M. June 27 had threatened to “shoot him in the head” as claimed by Nahel’s accomplice Fouad and mainstream media intent on fueling the violence. Instead, the officers had instructed Nahel to turn off the engine and put his hands behind his head, Valeurs Actuelles reports.

    The third occupant of the car has surrendered to the police after fleeing to Marseille and is now being questioned as a witness.

    Conservative CNews pundit Jean Messiha raised €1 Million on GoFundMe in 4 days from 42.220 people for Florian M., the officer involved in the death of Nahel M. The Minister of Justice warned against “instrumentalization” of the donation – while shamefully charging his own officer who almost got run over by the young man with “voluntary killing”.

    In St. Etienne, a 79-year-old Priest, Father Francis Palle, was attacked by two young men and robbed of his wallet and cell phone Thursday, and had to be hospitalized with bruises. The Diocese denied a connection to the riots or his priesthood, since he was not wearing his frock at the time of the attack.

    Across France, citizens gathered outside town halls Monday at 1 pm to protest the riots and the attack on the family of the mayor of Paris suburb L’Haÿ-les-Roses.

    In Lyon, patriots patrolled the streets chanting, “Blue, white, red: France belongs to the French!”

    Police tried to dispel the militia march with tear gas.

    Rioters were seen chanting, “One, two, three, long live Algeria!” at SWAT unit RAID in Lyon.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/after-6-days-rioting-700-injured-cops-patriots/

  2. France Has Fallen: Right-wing Politician Marine Le Pen Addresses the French Nation as the Country Grapples in Anarchy (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft Jul. 2, 2023 9:15 pm894 Comments

    Source: Marine Le Pen/Twitter
    As chaos and disorder surge through the streets of France, Nationalist politician Marine Le Pen has issued a stirring national address, imploring her compatriots to reject the rising tide of anarchy and violence.

    “For several days, a state of endemic disorder, violence, and destruction has been established in the country, the images and echoes of which are chillingly brutal,” Le Pen began her address. She painted a sobering picture of a nation in turmoil, referencing attacks on people and property, assaults on police officers and firefighters, the ransacking of town halls, school fires, and the looting of shops.

    Le Pen held no punches in her criticisms of what she termed “politicized politicians or unions,” whom she accused of morally exonerating the criminal acts spiraling the country into chaos. In a pointed message, she stated that these actors “will carry an indelible responsibility before the nation and history,” even as they fall victim to the violence they have fostered.

    Turning her attention to the citizens of France, Le Pen issued a stark warning against “anti-republican and extremist forces” that she believes are steering the nation towards chaos and disorder. She lamented the pervasive violence that has now infected municipalities of all sizes and has even reached the heart of Paris.

    Overnight With This…
    “I call on all citizens to distrust these anti-republican and extremist forces which, through their indirect calls for secession and their connivance with violence, are leading the country down terrible paths of disorder. This recurrent violence for years is now at unprecedented levels and now affects all types of municipalities, from the smallest to the center of large cities, including the heart of the capital,” Le Pen said in her nation address.

    The state of affairs, according to Le Pen, serves as a wake-up call to the nation’s leaders, who she accuses of being intoxicated by power and ideological constructions, particularly in the fields of immigration and judicial laxity.

    “Our country is entering a period of uncertainty and concern. As head of the first opposition force, I intend to stick to our line of conduct of not doing anything that could prevent or hinder the action of the legitimate authorities responsible for public order. I give my full support to all the security forces deployed to put an end to these riots,” she added.

    “I call for the cessation of violence,” implored Le Pen, calling for spontaneous intervention by courageous and civic-minded parents or the legitimate force of law and justice if necessary. She argued that the immediate solution to the destructive rage engulfing the country is a return to republican order through sectoral curfews, and if the situation worsens, the declaration of a state of emergency.

    In a final plea, Le Pen requested President Macron to convene a meeting with all parties represented in the National Assembly to discuss the grave situation and the initiatives needed to safeguard freedom and public security.

    WATCH:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/france-has-fallen-right-wing-politician-marine-le/

  3. 17 min This observer suggests the riots may be tied to Macron’s recent admission that he intends to join the BRICS meeting August 2. He notes that Charles de Gaulle experienced very similar unrest in late 1960s France after he demanded the U.S. allow France to convert its dollar reserves into gold. Of course this was the beginning of the end of Bretton Woods, culminating in Nixon ending the gold-backed dollar Aug.15, 1971.

    https://youtu.be/fmvGOHEbP0s

  4. 2/ Conservatives, Christians…
    aaaaand Jews~

    ‘Intifada in heart of France’ comes from antisemitic areas

    The roots of the ongoing riots in France are in areas where antisemitism, among other hatreds, are rampant, French-Israeli lawmaker Meyer Habib warned on Saturday…

    According to Habib, “in these lost areas of the republic, for years there has been an undisturbed growth of hatred of France, white people and Jews.”

    Habib contrasted the response to the killing of a 17-year-old by a police officer, which sparked the riots, to the murder of 65-year-old Jewish woman Sarah Halimi, who was murdered in her home in 2017 by a man who shouted “Allahu Akbar” while attacking her.

    “Sarah Halimi was beaten for 20 minutes in front of 20 police officers. Her murderer is practically free and no one rioted or burned anything,” said Habib, who holds a seat in parliament representing French expats living in the Eastern Mediterranean region, including Israel…

    The Holocaust memorial site in Paris, known as The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, was vandalized by rioters on Friday amid the large wave of anti-police protests…

    https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-748479
    …….
    Netanyahu condemns antisemitic attacks in France riots

    Rioters vandalized the Holocaust memorial site in Paris, known as The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, during the ongoing violent anti-police demonstrations.

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-748522

  5. Daniel Greenfield:
    Biden Will Fund Research in China, Not Israel
    Communist virus research is fine, not Jewish doctors helping autistic children.

    In May 2023, the Biden administration restarted a National Institutes of Health grant to an organization that had been conducting bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology believed by many to be the source of the recent pandemic.

    The Trump administration had originally halted the funding over concerns that it had contributed to experiments that were considered to represent ‘gain of function’ and had the potential to be weaponized by the Chinese military. To add insult to injury, taxpayers may have also paid twice for the grants.

    But the Biden administration has restarted the bat virus grant with the EcoHealth Alliance despite concerns raised by prominent researchers and journalists.

    The United States has spent tens of millions of dollars funding research in China so that even beyond the military and espionage elements, we are backing our own biggest rivals.

    In June 2023, the Biden administration reversed another Trump research mandate, this time cutting off scientific cooperation with Israeli institutions of higher learning on territory that it deems should be turned over to the PLO, Islamic Jihad, Hamas and other ‘Palestinian’ groups.

    The United States obviously isn’t obligated to conduct any kind of cooperative research with foreign countries, and yet choosing China over Israel is highly revealing of the real agenda.

    The Biden administration has refused to ban funding for research in the People’s Republic of China, but has chosen to ban it, no matter how benevolent, in parts of the Jewish State. Democrat administrations are willing to fund dangerous viral research in China, but not explore ways to teach autistic children to cope with the challenges of their environment in Israel.

    Gain of function research that creates deadly viruses in one of the world’s most ruthless nations was fine, but bonding hip implants to bones in one of our closest allies is beyond the pale.

    Even the Department of Defense has funded research in Hong Kong which is under the control of Communist China. The CDC and NIH have funded research at Chinese universities in Beijing, Shanghai, and Najiing with no interest in the legitimacy of the Communist regime’s control over these territories or the legitimacy of the regime. But when it comes to Israel, Democrat administrations scruple over who has the right to the land that the university is on.

    The Communist regime’s right to rule China is not contestable, but Israel’s right to its country is…

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-will-fund-research-in-china-not-israel/

  6. July 4, 1976 – Operation Jonathan

    [Wiki] “The Entebbe raid, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt, and retroactively known as Operation Entebbe or Operation Jonathan – the latter after the unit’s leader, Yonatan Netanyahu – was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entebbe_raid
    ………

    Police arrest Israeli who laid death threat on Netanyahu brother’s grave

    A person suspected of placing a threat against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the grave of his brother, Yoni, was arrested on Saturday night, according to police and the Shin Bet.

    The arrest was made as part of a joint investigation by the Cyber Unit of Lahav 433 and the Shin Bet. The suspect, a 26-year-old from southern Israel, was brought in for questioning at the offices of the Cyber Unit and, in accordance with the findings, the suspect will be brought to a hearing on the extension of his detention at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court.

    On Friday, a letter containing threats against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was placed on the grave of his brother, Yoni, at Mt. Herzl…

    The letter placed on the grave stressed that “it should be clear that this is a first-degree threat, red alert level.”

    “Bibi (a nickname for Netanyahu), you are no better than [Ariel] Sharon,” continued the letter. “Sharon received a stroke and sank into an eight-year coma. To you I wish even worse things…I won’t touch you at all Bibi…because a crony does not touch girls.”

    The letter than listed two “missions” for Netanyahu including: conquering Gaza and returning the body of Hadar Goldin – who the letter referred to as “my counselor” – as well as the other Israelis being held captive. The letter stressed that “the clock is counting down” and set a deadline of “a little more than three and a half months.”

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-748484

  7. Evangelical Zionist TV:
    The Israel Guys: Is Israel Taking Revenge on Joe Biden? Brilliant moves happening…

    The Biden administration lands yet another gut punch to Israel’s national security, and Netanyahu announces he is going to pay his first visit to China in over six years. Is Israel taking revenge on the Biden administration?

  8. Congress Launches Probe Into Scandal-Plagued Biden Iran Envoy

    The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday launched a formal investigation into U.S.-Iran Envoy Robert Malley following reports that the senior Biden administration official had his security clearance revoked for mishandling classified information.

    “The Department’s failure to inform Congress of this matter demonstrates at best a lack of candor, and at worst represents deliberate and potentially unlawful misinformation,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the committee’s chairman, wrote in a letter to the State Department, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

    McCaul and other Republican leaders suspect the Biden administration attempted to hide information about Malley’s alleged mishandling of classified information. Malley has been on an extended leave of absence from the State Department, but it remains unclear if this is due to his current inability to access classified information.

    After news of his security clearance issue became public on Thursday, the State Department officially put Malley on unpaid leave.

    The revelations come as the Biden administration engages in secret diplomacy with Iran. The White House is working to secure a revamped nuclear deal that would provide the hardline regime with billions-of-dollars in sanctions relief. Malley appears to have been sidelined from the talks, which are reportedly being held in Oman.

    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/congress-launches-probe-into-scandal-plagued-biden-iran-envoy/
    …….
    Something here stinks to high heaven…

  9. Islamic Jihad Leader Says Iran’s Khamenei Ordered West Bank Turmoil

    What is happening today in the West Bank corresponds to the directives of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad, said in an interview with Iran’s Al-Wefaq.

    “There was a great focus in order for the West Bank to move from a state of coexistence and calm to a state of resistance that we see today, and of course all of this coincides with the directives of His Eminence the Leader, and during our last meeting with him in Tehran, he renewed the call for that.”

    He added that elements of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement have also been helped with support and arms.

    {spit

    https://www.alquds.com/en/posts/77856?language=en
    ………
    Iran’s Militarization of West Bank Raises Concerns

    The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Ziyad al-Nakhalah, was interviewed by the al-vefag (Al-Wifaq) newspaper affiliated with the Supreme National Security Council media outlets.

    The interview with Al-Nakhala provides a clear insight into the stance of his Iranian patrons and the purpose of his visit to Iran in mid-June. During the interview and his visit, Nakhala emphasized the significance of advancing armed activities in the West Bank and Iran’s crucial contribution in providing military, economic, and political support to the PIJ.

    Iran places great importance on expanding its activities in the West Bank and aims to enhance the process of Lebanonization concerning actions against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). This involves deploying tactics such as using Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFP) explosive devices against the IDF forces, employing snipers, and setting up ambushes.

    https://www.irandossier.online/post/iran-s-militarization-of-west-bank-raises-concerns-part-1-1

  10. Syrian anti-aircraft battery hit after missile explodes over Israel

    Israeli fighter jets struck an anti-aircraft battery in Syrian territory on Saturday night after a Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded in Israeli airspace, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

    The missile exploded over southern Israel, with shrapnel found in the Bedouin town of Rahat. The IDF said that there were no casualties, and no special instructions were issued following the incident. No sirens were activated. Residents of the south and center reported hearing the explosion.

    “It fell right next to the children’s bedroom, we were very lucky,” a Rahat resident was quoted as saying by Kan News.

    Simultaneously with the missile’s detonation shortly after midnight, Syrian media reported air defenses had responded to an Israeli aerial attack in the Homs area in the western part of the country.

    The Israeli attack came from northeast of Beirut, and caused material damage, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.

    Rahat is some 257 miles from Homs and around 142 miles from the Syrian border. Reports indicated that the Syrian missile was a Russian-made S-200 long-range surface-to-air missile.

    https://www.jns.org/jns/syria/23/7/2/299327/
    …….

    Syrian missile explodes over Israel

    The Israeli air force struck sites on Syrian territory after a missile fired from Syria exploded mid-air over central and southern Israel early on Sunday.