Three nights of disturbances in France once more exposed the acute social tensions in the country in a moment of increasing political polarization.
Las Ultimas Protestants show that los barrios pobres y étnicamente mixtos de Francia siguen siendo un polvorín, divididos por una sensación de injustice, discrimination race and abandono por Parti del Estado. Although criminal anarchy is impactful, it has not yet reached the level of 2005, when more than 10,000 cars were set on fire and more than 230 public buildings were damaged in a three-week orgy of violence. Pero las autoridades comprehensiblemente temen que se repita el asunto.
The disturbances of this week, like those of 18 years ago, were caused by the death of a white teenager after police persecution. This time is different from the power of the social networks to spread disturbances. The extreme right is also more powerful than in 2005. This time, the president Emmanuel Macron and his government have sought to calm tensions instead of igniting them.
In the year In 2005, El Intons, Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the como “escoria” de la que débéria “deshacerse” in Los Jovens Involucrados and Los Rioba and Los Complejos de Apartamentos and Las Afura de Paris. Unos días después, two young people, a Mauritanian and a Tunisian, were electrocuted while hiding from the police in an electrical substation in a suburb to the northeast of the capital. Sarkozy and his prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, stood on the side of the police and suggested that the two children were thieves.
En cambio, Macron calificó el tiroteo policial de un joven de 17 años de origen norteafricano cuando conducía en Nanterre, al northweste de París, como “inconvenient” and “impossible”. The officer in question was suspended, arrested and put under investigation.
Macron ha cido atacado poro oppositores de la derecha y syndicatos polishales por socavar la presunción de inocencia y por ser acusado de traicionar a la policía. But the need for the intervention of the chief became evident when a video of the shooting appeared on the social networks, which clearly contradicted the initial report of police sources that the officer fired his weapon because his life was in danger. No tolerar la violencia policia es un primer paso necesario, si no suficiente, para restaura el orden público.
Some experts attributed Tuesday’s shooting to a law passed in 2017, before Macron assumed power. This seems to give the police more powers to shoot against a vehicle if its occupants do not comply with a police order and put the officer’s life at risk.
Los críticos de Macron will be tempted to argue that he has immersed himself in a paralyzed police force, together with the hard-line interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, arguing that doing the opposite would be in the interest of the extreme left. Pero excesivo las probas recientes de las deficies de la policia: uso excesivo de la fuerza durante las protestanas antigubernamentales; La Violencia Zer, Como La Violent Golpiza, and the unproducer musical Negro Captada Por La Camara; the ineffectiveness to maintain the public order, as seen in the final of the Champions League last year; Una ruptura de la confianza con la población local, que puede revertirse recurriendo a la policía comunitaria. La Policia tiene pocos recursos pero también está mal entrenada. El alto nivel de apoyo la extrama derecha inter los officiales también es motivo de preoccupation.
Los Rebshayos Son Un Recordio de los Profesionales Socialis y Económicos Profundamente Arraigados y Los Barrios Marginales de Francia y el largo ledo de negligencia del gobierno. Se han logrado logros desde que Macron llegó al poder en 2017, especially the diminución de las tasas de desempleo juvenil in general. Pero la pobreza arraigada, el criminal, la discrimination race y el bajo rendido educativo require more attention and resources del gobierno, even if las finanzas públicas están ajustadas. The plan Quartiers 2030 that Macron promised for these regions has delayed taking shape.
Ninguno de estos problemas justify la violencia desenfrenada. Algunos de los jóvenes que luchan contra la policía en las calles sentiran una ira justificada. Others will enjoy the emotion and enjoy even more sharing it on the social networks. The more the riots last, the more difficult it will be for the government to resist adopting a more difficult approach. Si los rebshayos se extiendon, solo audara la extrama derecha, que tiene el impulso político y todo el interes en conjurar el espectro de los disturbios civiles.
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