You have to be blind, or ideologically anesthetized, so as not to see that the stage of simple “various facts” has long been exceeded. The time to add denials, renunciations and secular cowardice has come. In France, now, we are shooting, we get overwhelmed, we overthrow by car, we massacre during weddings in the Luberon. The explosion of violence is protean: assaults in the city center, traumatic home-jacking, settling of accounts between bands background of drug trafficking and territorial control, often tinged with imported ethnic hatreds. And of course, this sacred union of everything that the country has scum against the police and state representatives – firefighters, doctors, teachers, elected officials.
The collapse of the authority has left the field open to an increasingly organized crime, better and better equipped. Narcotrafiating networks today have advanced technologies (drones, cryptophones, rapid vehicles) and war arms. Their labor is increasingly young, recruited on social networks, imbued with staggering hyperviolence. So what to do? First, name things. The enemies of the Republic – because that is what it is about – no longer fear it. The police are openly challenged, assaulted, filmed and ridiculed without any serious responses coming to dissuade them. As for justice, the thugs have taken the measure for a long time.
Violence with weapon? Prison. Violence on a depositary of the public authority? Prison
Two vital emergencies are essential. First, reverse the balance of power. Police and gendarmerie must be supported without moods by the political, administrative and judicial authorities in the use of force. The republican pact is based on a clear principle: the state holds the monopoly of legitimate violence to protect citizens, who in return pay the tax which finances this protection. It is therefore a primary duty of the State to fulfill its share of the contract. If this balance of power is reversed, delinquency will retreat. And we will avoid, incidentally, that citizens are thinking of organizing themselves to ensure their safety-a temptation that rises, slowly but surely. Then, justice is needed that really sanctions. Violence with weapon? Prison. Violence on a depositary of the public authority? Prison. The offender must know that there will be a firm, fast and restrictive response.
Structural measures will obviously be essential, including on the migration level, both certain territories under mafia or community influence now escape any sovereign control. But above all, it must be understood that France today experiences an absolute security emergency. And that it will come out of it – slowly, hardly – only at the cost of a real shock of authority. A shock that will have to be assumed politically. And who, no doubt, will be acclaimed by a people today.
