**French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that France faces an “uncivilising process”, a government source said, following the violent deaths of a nurse and three policemen and repeated attacks on elected officials.**
“We must be uncompromising on the fundamentals. There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people,” Macron told ministers at a cabinet meeting.
“We have to work from top to bottom to counteract this uncivilising process,” he added, in comments first reported by daily Le Parisien and confirmed to AFP by a person present in the meeting room.
Macron was “calling society to order,” a person close to the president told Le Parisien anonymously, adding that “politicians aren’t the only ones responsible” for reducing violence.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Wednesday participated in a minute’s silence for a nurse slain Monday in the eastern city of Reims, in a knife attack by a man suffering from psychiatric problems.
Macron was to travel on Thursday to Roubaix in northern France, to pay respects to three policemen killed in a Sunday car crash with a man under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
This week’s violence follows assaults on elected officials, including a mayor in western France who stepped down after an arson attack on his house.
Opponents of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in the town of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins are believed to have set the fire.
Other officials including MPs have had their constituency offices vandalised for political motives amid seen fierce protests over Macron’s unpopular pension reform.
definitely the people are at fault and not at all the government’s decisions impoverishing the country year after year.
nothing to see there.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
So a normal Thursday?
That’s quite the threat. This has to be him trying to get us used to the idea of giving machine guns to cops because if they aren’t violent now I don’t know what it would take.
>There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people,” Macron told ministers at a cabinet meeting
Unless it’s state violence
I think, part of the reason the French governments often have to accept a more confrontational protest culture is the problem of regional imbalance/conflict. For most of its existence, Europe has been either decentralized or democratic or both. If you are weak on one side, you have to allow the people a bigger channel to express their wishes on the other side. Through large protests, people all become French and are perceived as such, regardless of their regions, regardless of their origins. On some level, it’s also good. But the general social model has to be healthy and the regional imbalance (concerning both economic and political power) should be not too great – if not, the problems are just covered instead of being resolved.
Monsieur it’s a feature not a bug. He need to read French history again.
Guess France is in the “Find out” phase after fucking around.
> “We must be uncompromising on the fundamentals. **There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people**”
How many riot police have been convicted again, Macaroni?
He left out the part saying it’s his fault.
*this fucking guy* …
Can he just just tf up for just one month?
That would imply the French were at any point civilized
What a shame! Time to use technics to kill a law proposition from one of oldest deputy of the parlement
The French are doing what they do, Macrons being very unfrench.
Declaration totally unrelated to the fact that Parliament is seeking to finnaly have a vote on the Pension Reform (by voting an abrogation law) and that he has now to either find new ways to curtail Parliaments in an absolutely atrocious way, or face a likely (if only symbolical) defeat on the vote.
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**French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that France faces an “uncivilising process”, a government source said, following the violent deaths of a nurse and three policemen and repeated attacks on elected officials.**
“We must be uncompromising on the fundamentals. There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people,” Macron told ministers at a cabinet meeting.
“We have to work from top to bottom to counteract this uncivilising process,” he added, in comments first reported by daily Le Parisien and confirmed to AFP by a person present in the meeting room.
Macron was “calling society to order,” a person close to the president told Le Parisien anonymously, adding that “politicians aren’t the only ones responsible” for reducing violence.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Wednesday participated in a minute’s silence for a nurse slain Monday in the eastern city of Reims, in a knife attack by a man suffering from psychiatric problems.
Macron was to travel on Thursday to Roubaix in northern France, to pay respects to three policemen killed in a Sunday car crash with a man under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
This week’s violence follows assaults on elected officials, including a mayor in western France who stepped down after an arson attack on his house.
Opponents of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in the town of Saint-Brevin-les-Pins are believed to have set the fire.
Other officials including MPs have had their constituency offices vandalised for political motives amid seen fierce protests over Macron’s unpopular pension reform.
definitely the people are at fault and not at all the government’s decisions impoverishing the country year after year.
nothing to see there.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
So a normal Thursday?
That’s quite the threat. This has to be him trying to get us used to the idea of giving machine guns to cops because if they aren’t violent now I don’t know what it would take.
>There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people,” Macron told ministers at a cabinet meeting
Unless it’s state violence
I think, part of the reason the French governments often have to accept a more confrontational protest culture is the problem of regional imbalance/conflict. For most of its existence, Europe has been either decentralized or democratic or both. If you are weak on one side, you have to allow the people a bigger channel to express their wishes on the other side. Through large protests, people all become French and are perceived as such, regardless of their regions, regardless of their origins. On some level, it’s also good. But the general social model has to be healthy and the regional imbalance (concerning both economic and political power) should be not too great – if not, the problems are just covered instead of being resolved.
Monsieur it’s a feature not a bug. He need to read French history again.
Guess France is in the “Find out” phase after fucking around.
> “We must be uncompromising on the fundamentals. **There is no legitimate violence, whether verbal or against people**”
How many riot police have been convicted again, Macaroni?
He left out the part saying it’s his fault.
*this fucking guy* …
Can he just just tf up for just one month?
That would imply the French were at any point civilized
What a shame! Time to use technics to kill a law proposition from one of oldest deputy of the parlement
The French are doing what they do, Macrons being very unfrench.
Declaration totally unrelated to the fact that Parliament is seeking to finnaly have a vote on the Pension Reform (by voting an abrogation law) and that he has now to either find new ways to curtail Parliaments in an absolutely atrocious way, or face a likely (if only symbolical) defeat on the vote.