From the outskirts of Paris, the revolt of the angry young marginalized have been extended to almost all major cities of France. Surprisingly so angry in a country that seemed to offer the rest of Europe a model of integration for immigrants and an example of social treatment of poverty. Perhaps the cause may be found in which successive governments have not wanted to see the seriousness of the problems of all kinds-economic, cultural, religious, social, ethnic, which have accumulated, as in a pressure cooker in those suburbs junk increasingly abandoned by the authorities. These riots erupt in degraded areas with causes, but no projects. The right fuel the fire flamendo a clash of religions which is actually the popular rebellion of a multiethnic class that has no future in neoliberalism.
sensitive areas
consist in France some 750 urban areas deemed sensitive in a population living mostly immigrant origin, especially from the Maghreb and Africa, where poverty and prevailing insecurity. Highly impoverished neighborhoods built in the 60's, in which about five million inhabitants of the 61 million that France remain in buildings over 9 floors, nefarious paradigm qualified vertical slums. CHTML XC
The middle classes have been leaving the slums and there, as in new ghettoes, have focused visible ethnic minorities. And since non-EU immigrants can not vote in municipal elections if they do not acquire French nationality, all these neighborhoods have been neglected by the local mayors, since they are not any electoral returns.
Many of them, because of the neoliberal policies of budget cuts, there is no representation of the state. The semi-public services, post offices, hospitals, schools, savings, bus, police ...- have withdrawn as a result of the ultra-liberal policyto reduce public spending, subsidies to public services and the number of staff.
also many private shops, bars, supermarkets, pharmacies, have done the same as a result of rising insecurity, petty crime and fear.
territorial Discrimination
And the honest residents of these suburbs, which had to suffer racism, had also faced "discrimination of territory." If declared, responding to a demand for labor, living in a slum, not getting the job.
By construction these territoriesyears. The boys are spread terror. Fleeing, and Bouna Zyad refuge in an electrical switchboard which are electrocuted. Three weeks later, tens of thousands of young people from dozens of suburbs, from Marseille to the English Channel, have burned at least eight thousand cars, hundreds of buses and fire trucks, dozens of schools. Miles, at least 3,000, according to Justice Minister Pascal Clement, have been arrested, of whom 15 percent were sent to jail. There are dozens injured, including a disabled woman with serious injuries because of its difficulty to leave the bus were burning. At least one person died, Jean Jacques Le Chenadec, an old man beaten because he trieddefend your car. Have appeared firearms and several policemen were wounded. The two parties, gangs and the police have tried to avoid, at least until the social alarm did not exceed certain limits.
With the partial exception of the first weekend bands casseurs
- "devastating", as they are called in French have not even tried to export violence to the inner cities to affluent neighborhoods and consumption, which are excluded. Using mobile phones, blogs, Internet, to destroy those consumer goods they want, but those who feel distant. On the morning of Tuesday 8, President of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, procried the curfew. What has been done on the basis of the same 1955 law used against the lifting of Algiers, which limited the freedom of the press. Have been closed several websites and at least three people are currently imprisoned for "incitement to violence" through their personal blogs. The day the Senate voted 16 in favor of extending the state of emergency for three months, despite the measures that this situation allows the declaration of the curfew, and did not apply more than a dozen hot spots France.
political Opportunistic
For
jackals of French politics, olora blood coming from the periphery is a drug. The far-right National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen and his heirs, talk of civil war and applaud the curfew. Try to evoke the specter of Islamic plot. However, there is no evidence that there is religious in the survey. Quite the contrary: moderate and radical imams call for peace and even plunge the knife into the vacuum of values embodied by Western consumerism. The left is scared. Harvest votes in the periphery where French proletarians live with the French children of immigrants from third and fourth generation. Socialist and Communist mayors accepted measures to end violence, the onlyhands-free you are green and the Trotskyists.
The political actors are the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The latter, when young people were outraged by the deaths of two boys and marched under the banner "We demand respect," he chose to blow on fire with the provocation and insult. "Slag, scoundrels, criminals" are the words used by the minister and the first hours. Sarkozy competes with De Villepin by the legacy of the presidency of Jacques Chirac, and try fishing in the channel election Le Pen. The two rivals do play good cop and dialogue (de Villepin) and the evil and violent (Sarkozy). But things have idor too far and probably only the resignation of Sarkozy himself (to his presidential aspirations) may end up with a survey that identifies it as the first enemy.However, the popularity of the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been accused in recent weeks of starting the fire of revolt in the suburbs with his style and bravado, going through the roof. According to the IPSOS survey for the weekly Le Point
, the controversial president of the ruling party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) stars in one month, a rise of 11 points in the popular assessment, making it the favorite political figure by the French, with a 63% approvaldeath of 52 African immigrants (including 29 children) in four fires due to poor housing conditions has been exclusively that of forced evictions and daily raids sans-papiers undocumented the meter output lead them to the expulsion.
"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité ?
If the blame for the deterioration in the periphery as the result of the crisis of post-industrial city, not all of Sarkozy, the survey is the failure of society
sarkoziana. It looks at the Anglo-Saxon economic model, imposed under the iron fist of "law and order" and puttingin the spotlight only two categories: young people and immigrants. Sarkozy, who in the last budget bill took 300 million euros to these neighborhoods, not invent anything. Copy the "leftist" Tony Blair two years ago imposed a curfew on minors for crimes as serious as taking a parka with hood.
Paris, more than the Statue of Liberty, is the idea of shared Western values. Paris, with its "freedom, equality, fraternity" is the summa theologica of the alleged superiority and desirability of these values. But cities have grown in concentric circles. In the center are the most affluent and power. Nearby, the burg HTMLXC In a society founded on the invitation to the consumer, excluding born in a model that has no elevator and stairs to make even a decent job. Central neighborhoods live as if nothing happened. The most significant is that the bands do not even try to leave their ghettos. There is no Bastille to make and even luxury shops to loot. It's social suicide of a generation. Burned the cars of their friends' parents, day care where they go the brothers, who frequent gyms, buses that connect to the outside world. The boys, in their nihilistic violence, and do not buy the story for decades of income sold to France as citizens. The parents paid high prices but were workingand papers. Conclude that children can not enter France because there is no road, bus or elevator to connect the periphery to the country. They are not the cutting routes, is neoliberalism who the has been cut. And there they stay, burning the periphery where they were born, without hope or future.
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