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WATCH: France Is BURNING—An Update


France is burning yet again. 

Numerous reports from citizen journalists and U.S.—facing mainstream media all show the same thing: migrants rioting and destroying France’s major cities. …

The riots started due to the killing of a 17-year-old teenage boy at the hands of French police.

French internal investigators and authorities have since deemed the shooting unlawful.

I will be the first person to tell you that Western Europe does, and has, had a massive problem with ‘migrants’ from the Middle East and Africa. …

However, it must be noted—France was just on fire not too long ago when Macron introduced changes to the national retirement policy by raising the age of retirement. …

Migrants or no migrants, France seems to always be on fire and while these current rounds of riots do consist mainly of migrants, is that really all this is about, or something more?

Because from where I am standing, the French people as a whole don’t seem to be quite fond of the French authorities in general. How long will it be before the next riot gets out of control?

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Here’s what sources on the ground and syndicated sources are reporting:

According to Reuters:

The violence, in which buildings and vehicles have been torched and stores looted, has plunged President Emmanuel Macron into the gravest crisis of his leadership since the Yellow Vest protests that started in 2018.

Unrest has flared nationwide, including in cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille as well as Paris where Nahel M., a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot on Tuesday in the Nanterre suburb.

 

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CBS News provided this update:

At least 875 people were arrested overnight Thursday into Friday, France’s Interior Ministry said.

Around 40,000 police and gendarmes – along with elite Raid and GIGN units – were deployed in several cities, with curfews imposed in municipalities around Paris and bans on public gatherings instated in Lille and Tourcoing in the country’s north.



 

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