French police are speaking out more and more: the violence from immigrant ‘youths’ is escalating and has developed into a, almost religious, war against the French police.
Michel Thooris, head of the small Action Police union, claims that the new violence is taking on an Islamic fundamentalist tinge.
“Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned,” he said in an interview.
Larger, more mainstream police unions sharply disagree that the suburban unrest has any religious basis. However, they do say that some youth gangs no longer seem content to throw stones or torch cars and instead appear determined to hurt police officers – or worse.
“First, it was a rock here or there. Then it was rocks by the dozen. Now, they’re leading operations of an almost military sort to trap us,” said Loic Lecouplier, a police union official in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of Paris. “These are acts of war.”
Here is my suggestion: zero tolerance from now on and try to break up immigrants communities. They are living together in France right now, which makes it harder for them to truly integrate. Also, deal with the racism – racism does exist. Lastly, publicly deal with the issue of assimilation / integration; they need the type of debate in France we’ve already got going here in the Netherlands.
And, speaking of the devil: ‘youths’ (with that they mean the children of immigrants – born and raised in France mostly) forced passengers out of a bus “in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight, set it on fire and then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue”.
Get the police in there immediately.
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