Raye Al-Youm: Is Civil War Expected In France?
Following the killing of a 17-year-old teenager in the suburbs of Paris by the police, France is going through the fourth night of public protests; Demonstrations that are responded with heavy repression by French police forces and the range of protests is also expanding.
Abdulbari Atwan, a political analyst, discussed these developments by publishing a note in the electronic newspaper Raye Alyoum and wrote that the protests and violent actions that France is witnessing these days are not due to the killing of a young refugee by the police, but rather the result of intense anger caused by oppression and It is the violation of the security forces and also the inhumane conditions that the immigrants are facing in this country.
According to this report, France is one of the biggest centers of racism and Islamophobia in the European continent due to the increase in provocative actions, and the killing of this Algerian refugee only exploded the suppressed anger of the French people. Because inflation has cut off the security of the people of this country and the French leaders are not able to control it either. These events are literally a war; Because despite the deployment of 45,000 police and security forces, the protests continue.
During these protests, more than two thousand cars were set on fire, hundreds of shops in Paris were looted, more than two thousand people were arrested and more than 200 policemen were injured, and it is expected that these numbers will increase. Refugees in France have miserable conditions and are marginalized; Especially Muslims.
According to this report, refugees, especially Muslims, face many insults in France and their religious beliefs are insulted, and the French government spreads the red carpet for insulters under the false pretext of “freedom of expression”. More dangerous than this issue is the disgraceful support of the French governments to the Zionist crimes in occupied Palestine. Paris even calls any political or media solidarity with the victims of Zionist terrorism “support for terrorism” and has given a platform to the supporters of these killings.
As riots and street clashes continued in France, French President Emmanuel Macron postponed his official visit to Germany. The spokesman of the German president said that Macron had spoken with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. This spokesman added: “Macron has requested that the planned official visit to Germany be postponed.”
Macron on Friday urged parents to keep teenagers at home and proposed restrictions on the use of social media to quell unrest that has spread across France. Despite Macron’s appeal to parents to keep their children at home, street clashes between young protesters and police have continued.
Atwan further wrote that if the French governments support justice in Palestine and instead of their colonial past, interact with immigrants as citizens who have rights and abandon the politics of marginalization and discrimination, France will be safer and more stable. Was. France has actually returned to its colonial past and this issue is evident in the country’s political, military and economic interventions in the internal affairs of immigrant countries.
