Soti Triantafelo on the riots in France: a low-intensity civil war that we don’t know where it will end

For three and 24 hours the fire is literally burning Franceafter A 17-year-old boy was killed by police fire. Street fights, burning cars and buildings, and clashes form an explosive cocktail in French cities. Talking to ERTthe Writer and Paris resident Sotis TriantafiloAmong other things he noted:

“The issue is that some social groups are more suspicious of a young man in disguise, or someone from the French suburbs, where mainly people of African descent live.

(…) The proportion of law-breaking and execution is outrageous – for me, the police rarely speak in the plural to the 17-year-old African, and there is a breakdown in respect that what it can lead to is a terrible disappointment.

(…) We have about 1,000 such incidents annually, and they are caused by incidents of abuse of power against this category of citizens – especially young people – who engage in deviance, but this in no way justifies what is happening.

(…) A few of them are ultimately fatal, but abuse and racist comments are all too common.

(…) I think we have a civil war of low intensity and we do not know where it will end, and the polarization of society is increasing in the formations and ideologies of the extreme left and certainly the extreme right, many of which justified the killing of young people without having all the facts, without completing the judicial investigation.

(…) Curfews have been imposed in some areas again, as riots are created during the night without context, such as vandalism, arson and destruction.

(…) In Europe, in France, the “fear” of the police towards a 17-year-old is probably unjustified, while in the United States one could argue a little more about it.

(…) Macron thought he was more serious, but I think he overdid it by going to the concert – it was a big mistake, he went to a party, it’s a general disappointment, we miss the leaders in France.

(…) Movements in France are active, at the end of the day the question is whether there will be any change in legislation

(…) French society is in turmoil, reforms are underway deep within society, in police education which is somewhat outdated now, there is a need for politicians who can listen to what is happening in society and I think we have become deaf.”

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Source: ERT