Who are those people that demostrate and causing chaos in Paris ? Are they French ? Anarchists ? Immigrants ?

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Millie

Rillifane is absolutely right. Most of them are French-born people of African and North African origin, from muslim countries. They come from suburbs where immigrants are the majority with sometimes over 100 nationalities. The result being that they don't know French culture and they don't know the country that their parents or grandparents came from.

The problem is not poverty as too often said in the media. Because when these housing projects housed French people in the 50's there was no violence and yet at the time the people that lived there received far fewer benefits than they do now. We even had several major waves of immigration from Italy, Poland, Portugal and those people were dirty poor. They weren't given any help, yet they managed, worked hard and became fully French by heart and not just by passport. The problem exists now that the new wave of immigration comes from muslim countries because they find western culture decadent and therefore refuse to abide by the civilized laws of western democracies.

Overcrowding them is another factor. Those that live in areas where they are a minority end up feeling at home in France, assimilate and have never caused any problem. They have the same opportunities as anyone else. Most of my friends in France are of Algerian descent and they can't stand those 'scumbags" that put them to shame.

The problem comes from an identity crisis, these youths don't feel at home in France (nor anywhere else since they were born in France), they loathe France even though they are French. They are not protesting anything (in all popular protests you see men and women protesting, why is it only boys there?), they only want to destroy France.

They have more than the average middle-class American: low (or free) rent, modern housing, free high quality education and health care (since those are state-run and funded, the level is the same everywhere, regardless of income). The schools in those districts are actually those that receive the most funding. So their situation is in no way comparable to that of American minorities. What they don't have is a sense of belonging and worthiness. And it is our succesive governements' fault for never having that sense of pride that Anglo-saxon countries have. The French view patriotism as a disease, therefore they let themselves get run over because they have a guilt complex over their colonial years. This has been clearly understood and and is being exploited by those youths and those that manipulate them.

France had become so politically correct since the 80's that until recently no one dared to speak about anti-white racism, which is exactly what it's about. Their anti-French/western racism is also exacerbated by some mosque leaders. Despite what has been said above, these riots are definitely racial riots although the French media won't admit it (they are timidly beginning to though...).

Another problem in our immigration policy is that unlike the US where people immigrate to work (that's what immigrants from Europe did when they came to France), we now have people immigrating from the African continent not in order to work but to live on social welfare. It is a settlement immigration rather than employment-based immigration.

Rillifane

The current rioting is by people of Arab, Berber and subSaharan African descent and primarily of the Muslim religion.

Many, probably most, of them are legally French.

EDIT: The assertion that the police caused the death of two people is nonsense. Two young delinquents were driving illegally in violation of a large number of laws and crashed into a police car. They died as a direct result of their own criminality, disdain for the law and refusal to behave like civilized people.

The French police have demonstrated remarkable restraint as they have been attacked by armed thugs conducting urban guerilla warfare (the description given by the Police Chief) , burning libraries and schools (of course!), destroying cars and looting whatever they can steal.

Premier Francois Fillon had it exactly right when he stated that these people are "criminals".

mr b

they are french people tired of the unnecessary force used by the police that caused the death of 2youths....AND NO they are not by any particular race......out of 19youths arrested after the riots 8 were white,6 were of black decent and 5 were of arab decent BUT ALL WERE FRENCH!

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