France Is in Free Fall, There Is No Government
According to Michael Shellenberger, France’s Supreme Court justice Noëlle Lenoir said the French government is in free fall. Renoir is highly respected and insightful.
She said that “We no longer have a government. [President Emmanuel] Macron is totally disconnected and, in my view, afraid. He is afraid because he wants to remain in office until the very end; he wants another life, and he has already said he wants to come back in five years and run again, which is not forbidden; he does not know what to do.”
“He spoke twice, and both times it was a disaster. The first time was when these riots began, with so-called young people from the schools and universities. In fact, they were militants of the far left, and also immigrants. As you may know, official statistics show that 34% of immigrants come to France to study at university. Then 25% come to join their families, which is called family reunification (le regroupement familial). Then around 15% come to work. So you can imagine that there is an overrepresentation of young people who are supposed to be at university but do nothing. They are there because they want to leave their country.
“Macron spoke at the very beginning, not on October 17 but two or three days before, when the riots started with young students, Palestine militants, and Palestinian flags. He asked the police to show empathy with the demonstrators. For the police who were beaten and attacked, with around one thousand of them wounded, the fact that he asked them to show sympathy with these young people, some of whom are not young at all, was felt by all the security forces in France as an insult. I don’t think anyone still supports Macron and the government.
“What is amazing is that he said nothing. He just said, “I want the judges to be very tough.” But as you know, in France a large part of the judiciary is very politicized on the far left. They are organized in trade unions. One of the main judges’ unions, the Magistrates’ Union (Le Syndicat de la Magistrature), published a guide years ago, revised and republished in 2024, in which they explain to demonstrators how to escape from the police and how to make it harder for the police to prevent them from stealing, looting, and rioting. It is absolutely amazing.
“So when Macron says, “I want the judges to be very tough and to inflict very severe sanctions on the rioters, the looters, all those who attacked the police,” it is null and void, because he has never said anything against this union, and neither has the hierarchy of the judiciary itself. In my view, this union is a political party. They are militants, and they should not exist….”
Macron is done, but desperate to stay to the bitter end. That was obvious before we even heard Renoir’s commentary. So they have immigrants, militants, young people rioting and protesting, while Macron is telling the thousand wounded police to be sympathetic to the people who are hurting them and destroying France.
Macron saying he wants the judges to be tough is meaningless. He doesn’t ever follow through. He has lost complete control of the government, possibly out of fear and cowardice.
The government is completely out of touch with the people.
France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asked telecom companies to prepare to block social media platforms. “I wish to have the ability to temporarily suspend access to these services in case of a repeat of urban violence,” he wrote.
Is he trying to stop the riots or hide knowledge of them? Perhaps both. Protesters communicate on social media, and the French government hasn’t been honest about what’s happening in France and other European countries.
Meanwhile, Black Bloc antifa, immigrants, and youth are causing chaos throughout France, Italy, Serbia, Albania, and Belgium. Looting has begun in Spain.
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