In an address to the nation after a full month of devastating riots, looting, and arson which has engulfed at least 19 French cities, President Emmanuel Macron gave what will go down in history as one of the most deluded and clueless public addresses ever given by a serving Western leader.
Here is the full test in English of what Macron said:
“My dear compatriots, I am addressing you tonight in a moment of extreme gravity, after what we experienced yesterday in many French cities, in mainland France as well as in our overseas territories. Yesterday, Saturday 17 October, seditious elements from radical far-left groups, joined by numerous delinquents, unleashed unbridled violence in our cities......"
I have highlighted in bold the key points in the address, and this is what I have to say about them, in turn:
“Seditious elements from radical far-left groups”. This comment makes it very clear that the French authorities and Macron personally knows that violent Communist groups are massively active in these coordinated riots. Essentially, France has a severe Communism problem, and all Communists want violent Revolution. But the French generally have always, since the French Revolution, legitimised violent rioting, mass destruction, and property damage from the Left due to a romanticised view of the Revolution. French communists (especially academic philosopher-Communists) have been the best in the world at presenting bestial savagery and gleeful destruction as an enriching tradition of active democracy. This historic legacy of justifying left wing violence completely dominates the thinking of French Globalists….even if the violence is aimed at them. Macron acknowledges the leftist influence on these riots, but simultaneously tries to downplay it as only ‘elements’, meaning that the rest of the Left (including all Globalists) aren’t really at fault.
“How can French people do this to France?”. Possibly the most hilariously delusional part of the address. Everyone knows that very large numbers of the rioters aren’t in any traditional or meaningful way French. The riots are concentrated and build in areas with high immigrant populations. The cities most affected are the cities with high immigrant populations. Anyone watching footage of the riots can see instances where everyone rioting is black, and other instances where everyone looks Arabic or Muslim. The address resolutely refuses to admit the majority racial and religious composition of the riots, as if they might be mostly enacted by ethnically French white youths who are firmly religious Catholics. Globalists have to pretend that every imported sub Saharan African looting a store is as French as Charles de Gaulle, onion sellers in striped black and white shirts, and the Palace of Versailles because admitting anything else would be to admit that 80 years of mainstream mass immigration and racial dishonesties are key creators of the riots being seen today. Even the white youths involved aren’t culturally French the sense of having a deeply felt loyalty to France and having been taught that France is special and sovereign, since they are Communists and no communist has national loyalty to any nation. Macron himself, as a Globalist, doesn’t possess, value or understand Frenchness as something of value and possessed by a specific people (the French).
“…to listen to the anger and address its causes”. Again, the ostensibly condemning speech is actually validating and legitimising the rioters by claiming they have legitimate grievances. They don’t. French schools are well funded and supplied. These aren’t mistreated scholars demanding more pencils and textbooks and teachers. The causes of the riots are that millions of low IQ savages have been imported who enjoy doing savage things, that Globalists like Macron imported such people, and that successive French governments have funded and pampered them. The secondary cause is the Muslim-Leftist alliance and the fact that Communists are desperate to prevent a Le Pen Presidency in the event of a victory for her party (Rassemblement National, who are 35-37% in the polls). The riots are therefore a show of force intended either to take over now or terrify people into not voting for Le Pen in six months time. Macron is saying he will listen to the causes, meaning he will give concessions to the rioters while not changing or acknowledging the real causes.
“….nor allow violence to prevent these demands being met.” Astonishingly, but not surprisingly, the Globalist President of France is assuring rioting leftists and imported savages destroying his country that he will meet their demands. It’s not a condemnation of the riots. It’s a public submission to the rioters in the hope that this will restore the illusion of peace.