François Ruffin, Deputy, La France insoumise
Published in Libération
26th November, 2018
Translation by TheEuropeans
In 2017, François Ruffin addressed a letter to Emmanuel Macron, describing the “hatred” that the French felt for him. More than a year later, the Deputy hammers in the message again: “What unites the Gilets jaunes [Yellow Vests] is the aversion you provoke.”
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Quand les intellectuels voyaient venir les ‘gilets jaunes’
LE FIGARO/ANALYSIS, 19th November 2018.
The Yellow Vests movement, more than just a popular uprising, is a new symptom of the revolt of whole populations against the globalized society — a revolt that cuts across all Western democracies.
Continue reading “The ‘Yellow Vests’ : How the Intellectuals Saw Them Coming”
En Direct — ‘Gilets jaunes’ : la manifestation place de la Concorde sera ‘interdite’
LE FIGARO/LIVE, 20th November 2018.
Tolls, roundabouts etc. Since the beginning of the yellow vests [gilets jaunes] movement on Saturday [17th November], blockages have continued everywhere in France, punctuated by violence and arrests.
Continue reading ““Yellow Vests : The Demonstration at Place de la Concorde Will Be Prohibited””
Sécurité, ce que les ministres de l’Intérieur n’osent pas dire
Le Point, 15th November 2018.
Mafias, gang violence, Islamists, drug-traffickers… Revelations from police records on the state of security in France…
Continue reading “Security : What Ministers of The Interior Dare Not Say”
Les violences à Toulouse posent à nouveau la question des «zones de non droit» FIGAROVOX/INTERVIEW, 18th April 2018. Several districts of Toulouse have been prey to urban rioting since Sunday night [15th April, 2018 – Ed.]. Guillaume Jeanson, attorney at the Paris bar, believes this violence demonstrates that state security policy is still failing to restore republican order to the “lost territories”.
Continue reading “Violence in Toulouse Again Raises the Question of the No-Go Zones”
Les pompiers lancent #TouchePasÀMonPompier
Firefighters launch #HandsOffMyFirefighter
LE FIGARO, 13th February 2018. An initiative launched by the Fédération nationale des sapeurs-pompiers de France (FNSPF) [French National Federation of Firefighters] and the network of regional and departmental fire-fighters’ Unions, aims to raise public awareness of the rising tide of violence directed against their members.
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