A brutal assessment of France’s political system and its elite, from Le Figaro. The argument goes well beyond the barbaric destruction, importantly it blames those in power for allowing the country to reach this point.
“A judiciary that is lenient toward criminals but unrelenting toward decent citizens. The incomprehensible privilege of these far-left militias, who destroy, set fires, and kill with impunity. An uncontrolled immigration, in which a portion of the immigrants rebels against the country that took them in.
A political class, the various strains of socialism that have governed us for fifteen years, that must be accused of frivolity, blindness, if not even a benevolent tolerance.
Emmanuel Macron's admonishments to a police force that, in his view, does not show enough ‘empathy’ toward those who attack it with screws, cobblestones, or fireworks mortars, will remain an indelible stain in memory.
If the far left, criminals, and looters can turn France completely upside down within a few hours, it is above all because a self-intoxicated technocratic monarchy has systematically leveled all the moral, security-related, cultural, and economic safeguards that hold a society together. Jean-Luc Mélenchon's useful idiots do not just wear the kufiya, but also the necktie.”
FVincent Trémolet de Villers addresses the unrest in his Le Figaro editorial, “Crise des lycées, autodestruction ou redressement ?” published online October 6.