Diversity Macht Frei

November 1, 2018

Over the last couple of weeks, video of a pupil holding a gun to a teacher’s head in France has provoked discussion about diversity-related disorder and violence, usually euphemistically labelled the “security situation” in France.

This week Valeurs Actuelles, France’s leading conservative news magazine, has a striking cover.

Guns pointed at teachers, police officers lynched, fatal brawls – The New Hyperviolence

It reads:

Denial, abandonment and powerlessness of the State

On 13 February this year, France’s Interior Minister, Gérard Collomb, gave an informal interview to Valeurs Actuelles, which the magazine has only just published now, no doubt in response to the renewed public discussion of “sécurité”. Translation below, with the magazine interviewer’s words shown in italics:

In your heart of hearts, how do you judge the security situation in France?

It’s very worrying. What I read every morning in notes from the police reflects a very pessimistic situation. The relations between people are very hard, people don’t want to live together…

To what extent is immigration responsible for this?

Enormously so. It’s for that reason that, with Emmanuel Macron, we wanted to change the law…

Your law only attacks illegal immigration. Legal immigration allows more than 200,000 people into the country each year…

It’s true. We’re doing it bit by bit. But that remains a problem…

You think there is no more need for immigration in France?

Yes, absolutely.

You were speaking of vivre ensemble [living together] just now. What is happening?

Communities in France are engaging in conflict with one another more and more and it’s becoming very violent…

What are you afraid of? Partition? Secession?

Yes, I’m thinking about that, that’s what worries me.

How much time do we have before it’s too late?

I don’t want to create fear, but I think there’s very little time left.

How much?

It’s difficult to estimate, but I would say that within five years the situation could become irreversible. Yes, we have five, six years to avoid the worst. Afterwards…