Anyone interested in what is happening in France at the moment risks losing their bearings at any time.
The French government has decided to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The population, massively, opposes it. The minority French government imposed its reform by gag order. The country is on fire.
To the point where violent clashes with the police are increasing. Occasionally, we believe we see scenes of civil war.
But we will understand nothing regarding these clashes if we imagine that this violence comes from the depths of society.
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Because it finds its origins elsewhere.
What has happened in France for a week?
In short, the ultra-left and its militias have gone into battle.
The ultra-left is not just a radical left. It is a radical left which believes in revolution both as a goal and as a method, and which pleads for an uninhibited use of political violence.
She has a strategy: to radicalize the tensions in an already tense society by pushing it to extremes.
His plan: directly confront the police, with paramilitary techniques, on a mission to injure as many as possible. She repeats that all policemen are bastards. Its slogans are taken up by fashionable artists.
It thus hopes to create a social chaos conducive to the engagement of a revolutionary dynamic.
But in the short term, she thrives on chaos and seeks to terrorize those she designates as her enemies.
This ultra-left calls itself antifa. But for her, anything that smacks of conservatism or nationalism smacks of fascism.
Moreover, it has diverted the anti-racist fight to its advantage, and presents any nationalist party as a racist party. Against those she calls racist, everything is allowed, including the punch.
She has also appropriated the trans question, and gives herself the right to intimidate all those who do not fully accept gender theory, by exercising a form of terror, especially when critical conferences are held once morest her.
In the same way, it has seized on the environmental question and legitimizes in its name the sabotage once morest agri-food companies and once morest those of the energy world. She also advocates for the sabotage of SUVs.
Antifa?
We then come back to the present French situation. Certainly, France is in revolt. But it was until very recently a revolt framed by the unions. Since the crisis is not being resolved, tensions are growing. And it is precisely by seeking to radicalize these tensions that the ultra-left enters the dance.
We experienced, to a lesser extent, a somewhat similar situation at the time of the maple spring, in 2012, when the local ultra-left, less developed than in Europe, also sought to rot the situation.
I retain a simple lesson: intolerance, hatred, violence, intimidation, very often, also come from a certain left.
