Weeks of student-led protests over conditions in French schools spiraled into violent protests across the country in recent days.
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Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris on Sunday afternoon will have sensed the “shame and anger” described by President Emmanuel Macron after a weekend of rioting.
PRESS REVIEW – Monday, October 19: French and international papers discuss the anti-government protests that turned violent at the weekend and their aftermath across France.
France is on fire again, and not in the romantic, Hemingway-drinking-wine-on-the-Left-Bank way. More than half a million people in the streets. A historic town hall in Limoges burned down like a cheap cigar.
Here are five notable reactions to the chaos in France, which some see as part of a wider assault against a teetering civilization that has been weakened by widespread rejection of the Christian faith that built it.
France opened its doors to immigrants who initially rejected their culture but now have quite literally set fire to it. “It turns out that if you mass import a culture that refuses to assimilate and actually hates Western civilization instead of embracing it, eventually once they’ve outnumbered you,…
More than half a million people demonstrated across France last weekend. What began as student protests over school funding has become something far more dangerous, and America should take note.
Riots in France have not only taken a turn for the worse, but they’ve also spread to other countries. But the violence on European streets isn’t organic. Rather, it’s the latest example of the Marxist Left exporting chaos abroad.
When they see immigrant thugs looting and trashing cities, social media commentators sometimes mock the rioters as young professionals, doctors, architects, etc. It is intended as an irony-laden riposte to the fatuous left-wing argument that diversity makes the West stronger, and that mass immigrati…
