Delivering lines straight out of a Trump #fakenews generator,@EmmanuelMacron claimed,w/out any evidence whatsoever,that there are “districts where small girls aged 3or4 are wearing a #fullveil,separated from boys [..] & the rest of society,raised in hatred of France’s values”.@FT
Never mind that forcing someone to wear a #burqa is an imprisonable crime in #France,as is child abuse & radicalising minors.Bizarrely,in an era when cameras are everywhere,there were no images to back up @EmmanuelMacron's words abt these infant sociopaths.0 prosecutions too. @FT
Five years on from the #Bataclan, firearms are much harder to get hold of, but – according to @EmmanuelMacron – the estates still contain: “hundreds of #radicalised individuals, who we fear may, at any moment, take a knife and kill people”. #Islamophobia#CollectiveGuilt@FT
Rather than spreading #collectiveguilt,@EmmanuelMacron would do well to study the profiles of the Nov 2015 “#commando”, as they are described by more responsible commentators. Of the 9 men eventually killed by security forces, all had spent time fighting in Syria/Iraq with #Isis.
The #Bataclan killers-all drugged up venomous young men with perfunctory interest in religion & obsessed by the easy deaths prevalent in gaming/#Hollywood action film culture-learnt about combat in a #MENA/Asia torn to pieces by the #US & its allies;not on Muslim council estates.
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Earlier spoke to @BBCR4Sunday
about the barbaric #murder of French teacher Samuel #Paty.An anti-#terrorist enquiry is in full swing with the authorities making information available as quickly as possible.Meanwhile marches will be held today in commemoration of Paty.#CharlieHebdo
The #Elysee Palace said a “national #hommage” would be paid to Samuel #Paty, on a day to be fixed & it will be coordinated with his family. #Macron said the killer had sought to “attack the republic and its values” & the “#terrorists will not succeed… They will not divide us.”
Told @BBCR4Sunday the difficulty of discussing the issues #Paty's murder throw up is that our starting point is pure #barbarity–an utterly evil act that will be condemned by all decent people, including millions of Muslims who live in France & indeed in other parts of the world.
The most memorable – and vicious – #atrocities saw #policemen herding panicking crowds on to #Paris's bridges, where many were tossed into the #Seine. The river became a watery morgue for scores of victims, whose lifeless bodies were washing up for weeks. #17Octobre1961#Algeria
Others died in #police stations, or in nearby woods, where their #mutilated bodies testified to truncheon and rifle-butt injuries. The officers had been incensed by an illegal protest by 30,000 men, women and children organised by the National #Liberation Front (FLN) of #Algeria.