Islam versus Europe

Seine-Saint-Denis is at the other end of the country from Marseilles. It's part of Greater Paris, and has the highest immigrant density of any political district in France. It's probably the most Muslim-colonised area in the country, although Marseilles will be the most Muslim-colonised big city. Is it a coincidence that these demands for military intervention are coming from the two most Muslim-enriched areas? Of course not. It's also very interesting that the politicians demanding military intervention are leftists, a Socialist in Marseilles and an ecologist in Seine-Saint-Denis. Perhaps that's not surprising, though, since the Muslims tend to vote leftists into power in all areas they take over.

In calling for the intervention of the army in Marseilles to put an end to the bloody settling of scores in the city, Samia Ghali, the Socialist senator for the Phocean city echoes the demand, in June 2011, by Stéphane Gatignon, the mayor (EELV) of Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) to send blue helmets to his city to curb the infernal cycle of violence. "The only solution is a 24/7 presence, he declared last year. Until there is a change in the law, we cannot manage this situation. We need peacekeeping forces, blue helmets, like those we send abroad to prevent belligerents killing one another."

Today, the ecologist mayor of Sevran understands the dismay of the politicians and inhabitant faced with the spiral of violence. "We are confronted with an insoluble situation. There is a real sense of not being able to take any more, which we need to get out of but we are not able to, he explains. We are in a situation where politics needs to take account of the real state of society. We need to smash the trafficking, of drugs especially, which generates considerable sums of money. I asked for blue helmets to be sent, which is a peacekeeping force, and not an army which would come to make war in the districts. The only solution to calm situations like this is a police presence which covers every inch of the territory. This is the price of security, which doesn't prevent us from having to deal with problems at a deep level with responses which do not relate purely to security."

In his view, it is urgent to intervene to stop the traffic and the infernal circle of violence, otherwise, in a few years, the army will be obligated to intervene "as we see already in Latin America, where it is the army that is responsible for the maintenance of order on the ground," recalls the politician elected in '93. "But, in reality, this is already the case in France to some extent. When the police and the gendarmes intervene en masse with helicopters, that approximates a paramilitary operation to a significant extent." Following his appeal last year, CRS vehicles patrolled Sevran for a year. "This presence has calmed things enormously, even if not everything is under control."

Source: Le Figaro