#france riots

[madame-helen]

[gamer2002]

Amid national riots over a police shooting, the French president blames the unrest on videogames | PC Gamer

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[castilestateofmind]

"Along with the Franks who formed the core, Englishmen, Scots, Irishmen, Spaniards, Italians, Germans, and Greeks joined the marching armies".

-Fulcher of Chartres on the First Crusade.

(Robert of Normandy at the Siege of Antioch, Jean-Joseph Dassy).

[nando161mando]

System Fail 25: The Urge to Destroy

As humanity recons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.]

Many youth, particularly in France, have channeled this hopelessness into rage. For the past several months the country had been seeing a series of strikes and riots in response to the raising of the retirement age, and these riots intensified in late June after the police murder of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk during a traffic stop. As the dust settles, inept politicians blame bad parenting and TikTok.

Meanwhile in Peru, protesters from around the country have gathered in Lima calling for the resignation of President Dina Boluarte and the dissolution of congress.

[black-is-beautiful18]

Being a murderer in France apparently makes you a millionaire cuz why did these idiots make a gofundme for the cop that killed that poor child, cuz he was a CHILD and his name is Nahel, and it’s gotten up to 1 million euros…Like be freaking fr. Not to mention the news calling protesters thugs, mind you these are Black and Brown kids and adults protesting and rioting, and the president or whoever that man is saying that the riots are a result of violent video games and tv. BE FREAKING FR! All the racist and xenophobic posts being made by white French ppl as well. Like y’all can riot for healthcare but a cop kills a 17 year old boy, lies and claims he tried to run him over only to be caught lying on camera, and French Algerians and French Africans suddenly can’t riot???? For a country that claims not to be racist yall sure are good at it. And apparently ppl are mad cuz Nahel’s mom supports the rioters. Like shut up. 🙄

[ithacanradio]

"Europe is a garden, the rest of the world a jungle." Where's your garden now? x

[gryffintheparrotcat]

Ya'll what the actual fuck is this

[cerosin]

New Popular Front documentary is out

[cavalierzee]

The Devil From Paris

Portrait of French President Emmanuel Macron from the front page of the Iranian newspaper Vatan Emrooz, “The Devil from Paris.”

[cujus]

[a-room-of-my-own]

Autre motif d'énervement, les commentateurs qui se demandent où sont les parents, comme si les minets avaient tous fait le mur.

Personne pour vouloir comprendre que les parents envoient leurs fils casser et voler, parce qu'ils savent qu'en tant que mineurs ils ne risquent rien.

J'ai bossé un été dans un centre aéré en ZEP, quand j'avais 19 ans et certains parents demandaient à leurs enfants de 7 ou 8 ans de voler leurs propres camarades. Combien de fois on en a chopés avec 3 manteaux et 4 pulls sur le dos? Les mêmes volaient des jeux de société ou prenaient plaisir à les casser. Les mêmes se battaient, expliquant leur comportement par l'éducation parentale qui leur inculquait que "l'honneur" se défende uniquement par la violence. Demander de l'aide aux animateurs était vu comme un déshonneur de plus parce qu'un vrai mec se défend lui-même avec ses poings.

4 ou 5 ans plus tard, j'ai travaillé l'été dans une association qui faisait de l'assistance éducative. Devinez qui j'ai retrouvé dans les dossiers avec un suivi après des condamnations pour vol, recel, deal ou dégradations ?

Outre l'éducation des parents il y avait aussi l'éducation sociale des enfants au sein des structures publiques qui était toujours dans la victimisation. Les parents étaient plutôt jeunes et avaient été pour ainsi dire élevés dans le même système. Donc ils inculquaient à leurs enfants qu'ils étaient des victimes à qui on devait tout, ce que répétaient les instits, ce que répétaient les animateurs, ce que répétaient les éducateurs.

Pour l'anecdote, j'ai failli ne pas avoir mon BAFA validé pour mes positions "élitistes".

[ivovynckier]

Insane riots last night in Roubaix, the French town on the Belgian border. Entire buildings burned to the ground.

I know Roubaix as the town of Georges Delerue, the Mozart of film music. He scored Platoon for Oliver Stone.

[dankmemes23]

1. Police car

2. Tesla

3. Lifted Ford diesel trucks

4. Minivans

5. Middle aged woman in an Acura

6. Young perky girls in Jeeps

7. ???

Please add to the list and keep it going!

[nando161mando]

"The Capitalist-extremist government of France declared the popular habitat defenders "Les Soulèvements de la Terre" (Earth's Uprisings, https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/en-eu/blog/nous-sommes-les-soulevements-de-la-terre) to be "dissolved" today.

The group responded with a long statement in French that I haven't seen translated, but here's their final piece of that statement, a picture declaring that "A MOVEMENT CAN NOT BE DISSOLVED".

They don't quit.

But Greta Thunberg made a statement of support in Paris today, saying "This is about the right to protest and it is about the right to defend life" (my back-translation from Swedish news article)."

[ithacanradio]

Nantes, 28/6, riots spread throughout the french suburbs after the police killed a 17 year old at a traffic stop. the protest merged with supporters of soulevements de la terre, the environmental movement that was just shut down by macron and his cabinet. these are not the first instances of repression as french people have tasted police violence during the yellow vests movement and throughout this year's strike against the new retirement law. macron deployed the antiterrorism police to quell the riots in the suburbs but after four nights the temperature is still high and clashes are only expanding.