by Oliver JJ Lane
Weeks of increasingly destructive protests are the result of “nothing less than out of control mass migration”, U.S. President Donald Trump said, dealing directly with a root cause of French urban violence often skirted by legacy media.
Massive riots spreading across French cities that started out as school protests but which have since become an expression of counter-French feeling by disaffected urban youth are the result of uncontrolled mass migration, U.S. President Donald Trump has said, reinforcing the views of several prominent French sovereigntists. The now weeks-long violence has seen hundreds of thousands turn out onto the streets and has led to thousands of arrests, hundreds of injuries, and millions in damages.
Among those are 700 injured police officers, over 200 injured youth, and over 80 school staff injured.
While broader media attention has focused on the origins of the riots weeks ago on school conditions, others have noted the hijacking of events by the hard left to whip up revolutionary zeal, particularly ahead of next year’s presidential election when socialist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon hopes to make it to the final round and even to the Elysée.
Reacting to a torrent of social media clips showing French ‘urban youth’ rioting, including beatings of isolated police officers and improvised flamethrower attacks, President Trump said in a statement to his Truth Social: “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration.”
The President went further, noting the serious and long-standing security threat facing France as well as several other European states, and said: “This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”
To figures on France’s sovereigntist right, who warn against the integration failure of multiculturalism and the civilisation-eroding power of open borders, the violence of recent weeks has been nothing short of “barbarism”. National Rally leader and 2027 Presidential election favourite Marine Le Pen responded to footage of a female police officer being chased down as “unbearable” and stated, “Marseille, Lyon, Grenoble, Besançon, Nîmes, Strasbourg: everywhere in France, the situation is deteriorating”.