France!

[yoki]

Has the Genie escaped from the bottle properly this time?

Predictions that this is going to be much more difficult to quell than the 2005 riots as there is now a much greater national spread of non-nationals than there was then.

Also, if trouble erupts in more rural areas are the native French going to stand back and let it happen?

This could get proper nasty.

 

[czechmate]

Has the Genie escaped from the bottle properly this time?

Predictions that this is going to be much more difficult to quell than the 2005 riots as there is now a much greater national spread of non-nationals than there was then.

Also, if trouble erupts in more rural areas are the native French going to stand back and let it happen?

This could get proper nasty.

any link?

 

[milkloss]

any link?

Don't think the MSM are covering it very well. Some of the more extremist news sites paint a very bleak picture.

here's the bbc for you. It's fine, mostly peaceful riots.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66049895

 

[czechmate]

Don't think the MSM are covering it very well. Some of the more extremist news sites paint a very bleak picture.

here's the bbc for you. It's fine, mostly peaceful riots.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66049895

i wondered what in particular he was referring to? It’s France, there is always protests and riots

 

[essex man]

Has the Genie escaped from the bottle properly this time?

Predictions that this is going to be much more difficult to quell than the 2005 riots as there is now a much greater national spread of non-nationals than there was then.

Also, if trouble erupts in more rural areas are the native French going to stand back and let it happen?

This could get proper nasty.

How is this possible im the land of milk and honey aka the eu?
Maybe brexit to blame?

 

[czechmate]

How is this possible im the land of milk and honey aka the eu?
Maybe brexit to blame?

how so?

you don’t follow world events much,do you?
in my 10 years here I can hardly think of a week without something going down

 

[milkloss]

This lot could get quite bad though according to this site

France Deploys 'Armored Military Vehicles' To Combat Nationwide Riots | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[czechmate]

This lot could get quite bad though according to this site

France Deploys 'Armored Military Vehicles' To Combat Nationwide Riots | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

you can live in hope…

 

[yoki]

Struggle to see why or how someone finds the situation at all funny in any way?

Started off with a young life being lost, irrespective of the circumstances, and now mindless destruction.

Neither hardly a laughing matter.

 

[Widgetone]

Would be unworthy if anyone was gloating over someone's tragedy.
Can sadly happen anywhere nowadays, even here.

 

[yoki]

any link?

Not often I link to "The Guardian", but I'll make an exception so there's no danger of being accused of spreading right wing anti-EU propaganda.

France riots: hundreds arrested in fourth night of unrest as 45,000 police deployed

France’s interior minister says that “significant reinforcements” have been sent to Marseille where more than 80 people have been arrested

www.theguardian.com

 

[yoki]

How is this possible im the land of milk and honey aka the eu?
Maybe brexit to blame?

I'd say they are linked, but in reverse, with the circumstances causing this considerably to blame for Brexit.

 

[Muck Spreader]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1674562084624039936

 

[caveman]

 

[spin cycle]

tragic as the shooting was I can't see how looting shops is relevant/excusable...I mean I saw a picture of a small tobacconist ransacked and then 'Nike was stormed'

 

[M-J-G]

Bit like our BLM riots

 

[Danllan]

how so?

you don’t follow world events much,do you?
in my 10 years here I can hardly think of a week without something going down

Hmm... I've discussed this with French friends and they say the same, more or less, with a typically Gallic shrug, and leaving me astounded that it can be true - but on doing a bit of research, it is.

Bit like our BLM riots

In the sense that the core seems, essentially, to be foreigners in each country. But this is, or at least it seems to be, 'organised' to some degree and with an attempt at strategy. Whereas the BLM mobs were on a much smaller scale and a total cluster f^ck without any coherence at all.

 

[JCfarmer]

Unfortunately it is very segregated in Paris/France. Paris is a bit of a shithole compared to London and I thought London was bad.

 

[essex man]

how so?

you don’t follow world events much,do you?
in my 10 years here I can hardly think of a week without something going down

Indeed, i am well aware it happens all the time...things that were happening before brexit are still blamed on brexit though

 

[Danllan]

Indeed, i am well aware it happens all the time...things that were happening before brexit are still blamed on brexit though

Yep, UK overall trade has increased since Brexit, only the share with the EU has decreased a bit, but that is rarely mentioned. Similarly, high UK inflation is blamed on Brexit, but that doesn't explain why Austria, Sweden, Czechia, Latvia etc. have higher inflation than the UK.

Nor does it make sense to blame Brexit for the UK looking like it might enter a recession, but not to enter a recession, and yet not attribute the Eurozone actually being in recession to Brexit.

Fact is, the lovers of the EEC / EC / EU spent decades telling us that membership would bring benefits, but that it just needed more time; yet the same people now are trying to attribute anything that goes wrong to Brexit, even when it patently isn't. Plus, for some reason, they don't seem willing to give Brexit even a few years, let alone the decades of patience they called for on behalf of the EEC / EC / EU.