Long, detailed, goes back to the car-b-ques of 2005 and forward to the violence expected to resume at the end of the Wuhan coronavirus shutdown. [GatestoneInstitute] A few months ago, a police officer, Noam Anouar, who infiltrated Islamist circles... stated that no-go zones in La Belle France are now foreign enclaves on French territory. "The gangs operating there," he wrote, "have formed a parallel economy based on drug trafficking. They consider themselves at war with La Belle France and with Western civilization. They act in cooperation with Islamist organizations, and define acts of predation and rampage as raids against infidels". He noted that reclaiming these areas today would be complicated, costly, and involve calling in the army.
For years, successive French governments have chosen a policy of "willful blindness": they simply behave as if they do not see what is going on. They do not even try to find solutions.
While France's general population remains under strict lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and police have been ordered to enforce the rules ruthlessly, people living in no-go zones are treated differently. Police officers have been told by the government not to stop them at all and to avoid going near where they live. |