More News From France

In its article, "French firefighter, 24, dies while battling car blaze on sixth night of riot chaos as sword-wielding vigilantes and 'football ultras' are seen patrolling streets amid desperate calls for calm," the Daily Mail reports that a 24-year old firefighter is believed to have died from a heart attack (ed: vaxxed?) while battling a blaze in a parking garage. Some Parisians have resorted to self-defense tactics against the rioting. The article continues:

    It comes as shocking videos showed gangs of youths looting clothing stores. 

    But in response to the ongoing violence, some citizens have taken matters into their own hands, with anti-riot demonstrations beginning at French town halls on Monday.

    Today's demonstrations - called a 'mobilisation of citizens for a return to republican order' - came after the home of the mayor of a Paris suburb was rammed with a flaming car, prompting widespread outrage. 

    One clip showed a group of men standing outside a house in Metz brandishing katanas - lethal Japanese swords - as they defended their cars and properties from damage.

    Others showed groups of what were described as 'football ultras and hooligans' patrolling the streets on the lookout for rioters. 

    The demonstrations rocking France were sparked by the killing of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old from an Algerian background who was shot at point blank range by a policeman during a traffic stop in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday.

The article also relates:

    The Association of French Mayors has called for 'the population to mobilise' in front of town halls at noon on Monday as citizens whose businesses and property have been damaged amid the riots demand an end to the disturbance.

    'We will sound the sirens, we will continue our daily work so that order returns,' the AFM said in a statement.

And:

    A leaked police intelligence report described officers as being 'at war with savage hordes of vermin'.

    Two police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron's government restored order.

    'Today the police are in combat because we are at war,' says the report. 

    'Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of.'

Whether the fact that the French people were starting to actively protect themselves, the threat of a revolt among the police, or some other cause, things have reportedly calmed down according to this Reuters report. On the other hand, the underlying tensions remain as the article relates:

    In the town of Persan south of Paris, where rioters smashed the town hall's windows and damaged its facade in an arson attack, dozens of local residents denounced the unrest - one of scores of similar "citizens' gatherings" nationwide on Monday.

    "Let these wrongdoers hear it and let them know that hatred will never prevail," Mayor Valentin Ratieuville told them.

    Some bystanders engaged in animated debate over who was to blame for the unrest, revealing the divisions over identity that run deep through French society.

    "We should cut everything, family allowances, everything related to welfare subsidies. Come on! If they are not happy, they return home to their country," one pensioner who gave his name as Alain said.

    "Yes, sir, but let me tell you something. They might have foreign origins, foreign ancestors, but these kids are French," responded Fatma, her head covered in an Islamic headscarf.

As French as sushi. 

    Some other articles:

• "Collection for French cop who sparked riots by 'executing' teen reach €1MILLION - dwarfing the €189,000 donated to victim's devastated family"--Daily Mail Online.  
• "Wild social media videos show extent of French riot chaos as lawless thugs ransack shops, fire AK-47s in the streets and drive a stolen bus through flames"--Daily Mail Online. 
• "US State Department-Trained French Activist/Arsonist Pouring Fuel on the Fire"--Niccolo Soldo. Noting that a black activist living in France by the name of Rokhaya Diallo had apparently received training by the State Department on how to organize protests and uprisings:

In 2010, the U.S. State Department invited French politicians and activists to a leadership program to help them strengthen the voice and representation of ethnic groups that have been excluded from government. Rokhaya Diallo attended, which many of her critics still use as evidence that she is a trained proselytizer of American social-justice propaganda.

And she is not some unknown person. Soldo notes that she is a polarizing figure in France's racial grievances industry, the the UK's Guardian newspaper ran an op-ed she wrote about the causes of this past weekend's rioting, as well as:

In 2017, under pressure from both the left and the right, Macron’s government asked for her removal—as Diallo put it to me, it “canceled” her—from a government advisory council, seemingly on the grounds that race- and religious-based political organizing contradicts key principles of French republicanism and secularism, or laïcité.