Dans les banlieues, le pire reste à venir

J’avoue que je n’aimerais pas être aujourd’hui au gouvernement. Ni d’ailleurs habiter Villiers-le-Bel. Ni moins encore être CRS. Je crains en effet que les nuits d’émeutes de Clichy-sous-Bois, il y a deux ans, ne soient que le hors-d’oeuvre de ce que nous allons déguster dans les temps prochains.

OK. Who am I kidding? My command of French is only equalled by my command of the the movements of the Moon around Earth.

The above is from an article by Jean de Maillard (Magistrate and Vice-président of the tribunal de grande instance at Orléans et enseignant à Sciences po Paris.) Rue89, an obviously French news site that you can read here. However thanks to the kindness of Godiva, I am able to provide the following translation with regards to Monsieur de Maillards take on the situation on the ground in France. He does not name the enemy but you know them. We all know them. The Cult of the Dead Paedophile.

In the suburbs the worst is yet to come.

I acknowledge that I would not like to be in government today. Neither to live in Villiers-le Bel and even less to be a CRS (French riot police). I fear indeed that the nights of the Clichy-Sous-Bois riots, two years ago, are only the hors-d'oeuvres of what we will taste next time.

I do not seek to put oil on fire, in any event my words will have no chance of being read in the 9-3 (suburbs) and other such cities in which our beautiful France has strewn her suburban landscapes. But I do believe that it will be necessary nevertheless to call a spade a spade. Two schools, a library, a police station, a garage and some other buildings have been burnt, the list has already been forgotten, in addition to burning dozens of vehicles per day. We have become accustomed to it. It has almost become a routine.

On the other hand, the second night of Villiers-le Bel marked an escalation of which the media and the government will undoubtedly not want to publicise, but which is likely to be the starting point of a new stage: the use of arms. To tell the truth, the surprise is not that the rioters have started to use them; but that they did not do it before now (apart from trying two years ago under a deafening silence) and that they are still satisfied with using shotguns with shot. Because the suburbs have been armed now since a long time and contain superb weapons of war, mortal weapons as are necessary to pierce through bulletproof jackets.

As much to say that the situation is explosive is to say that in the best sense of the word; it seems that riot after riot techniques harden and professional methods are being used that the police officers and gendarmes will one day soon have to face, if it is not already the case, because the experts in urban guerrilla warfare have no scruples to use their weapons against the police force. With consequences that alas only one can imagine.

What will the authorities make of this? Will they minimize the gravity of the facts as they did in 1994 when the sailor/fishermen had set fire to the Parliament of Brittany and had drawn harpoons on the police force? Will they issue a new emergency state? Will they drown the suburbs under the appropriations of a new Marshall plan, one thousand times already announced but never carried out?


The problem is that, once again, we will have waited beyond the last moment to confront a reality already uncontrollable. Since years, we have demobilized justice and have removed its power. It (justice) appears to be more useful when dealing with speeding offences and domestic violence (Outreau pulled out all the stops for another one of its (justice’s) soft spots: intra family sexual aggressions) than to have to concentrate on the great delinquencies which erode irremediably but imperceptibly our society.

Today, all kinds of trafficking flowers under the nose of our police officers and dismayed judges. They count the blows and pick up the pieces after deaths caused by the gangs settling their accounts. There, (in the suburbs) the Kalashnikovs and 38 specials are in the hands of the hooligans, who only use them between themselves for now, but who worries about this?

I believe that what I will say will shock, and I do not do it from a cheered heart, nor by provocation, but because the hour seems to me to be serious. However I am persuaded that we still have a chance before the hooligans and future killers from the suburbs dare to use their fire power. I hope that the authorities will become aware of the imminence of these events and especially that they will finally seek solutions. I would not like to be in their place, because the margin of maneuverability, if there is one, will be narrow. Admittedly, punishment must be pitiless if the authors of these events are to be stopped but repression does not solve anything in the long run.

And it is also necessary to stop dreaming, from left to right: the local police forces are not a panacea because one does not graft a Community Police Force on to a society that at this point is so sick it is ready to burst and whose members are in open rebellion with that society. The police force is a means, not a solution. The teachers will not be more useful: one does not cure cancer with a placebo. To support the gang leaders with gifts in order to buy an armed peace will be perhaps the selected way: it would give us only one short respite. Does another solution exist? I am unaware of it, and I am quite glad not to be with the government.

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Meanwhile in our multicultural paradiste a GANG of 25 men dressed all in black and carrying guns marched through Manchester streets - triggering a massive police operation.

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