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Monday, January 22, 2024
Islam in France > 7 Muslims on Trial for Massacre in South of France; Who's behind the Protests in France and Germany?
The trial of suspects allegedly complicit in the planning of the 2018 Trèbes and Carcassonne terrorist attacks in the south of France opens on Monday in Paris. Three men were shot dead in a car park and a supermarket, and a receptionist was taken hostage until a gendarme, Arnaud Beltrame, volunteered to take the place of the captive at the cost of his life. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin reports.
Tens of thousands of protesters across France
call on Macron not to sign immigration law
Tens of thousands of people marched in the streets of cities across France on Sunday to call on President Emmanuel Macron not to sign into law tough new legislation on immigration that they say bears the footprint of the far right and betrays French values.
The timing of the protests was critical, coming four days before the Constitutional Council decides on Thursday whether all articles in the law — passed in December — conform with the French Constitution.
The bill strengthens France’s ability to deport foreigners considered undesirable and makes it tougher for foreigners to take advantage of social welfare, among other measures.
The protest was called by 200 figures from various sectors, including the arts and the unions. The law “was written under the dictate of the merchants of hate who dream of imposing on France their project of ‘national preference,’” the signatories of the call to march wrote.
I wonder who was really behind it? Of course, no-one will ever really investigate this because they don't want to know, and they certainly don't want you to know.
As in Germany where as many as 250,000 protesters turned out to protest the AfD meeting with neo-Nazis - an astonishingly stupid thing for them to do. But I'm betting there were some of the same people behind those protests as there were behind the French protests. Can you say 'Alex Soros' as a possibility?
National preference, under which the French, not foreigners, should profit from the riches of the land, has long been the rallying cry of the far-right National Rally party.
Macron backed the law in its tortuous course through parliament, but, in an unusual twist, has said that some articles appear unconstitutional. Le Monde newspaper recently quoted an unnamed Interior Ministry official as saying that “a good dozen” of articles could be struck down by the Constitutional Council.
And he has just made it so much easier for them to do.
Some articles of the law make it more difficult to bring family members to France, for instance, an applicant trying to join their spouse will have to show knowledge of the French language. The court is also likely to scrutinize tougher standards for receiving social services and housing or re-establishing a law done away with in 2012 that makes it illegal for a foreigner to be in France without residence papers.
The immigration law reflects what appears to be centrist Macron's most recent effort to tilt the government to the right, notably ahead of European elections in June with the far right bounding forward in popularity, according to polls.
Personally, I think he has faked to the right and is really swerving left.
Also on the horizon is the possibility of a victory in the 2027 presidential elections by National Rally leader Marine Le Pen. After two presidential mandates, Macron will not be in the running.
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