aucun pays n'est parfait
No country is perfect. Including France. Usually when people talk about France the Eiffel tower comes to mind. Champs-Elysées, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, perfume, expensive designer clothes, TGV, wines, champagne, cheese and lots more. But that's just the surface. If you look further, you'll see unemployment, poverty, decreasing quality of life, homeless, decentralization, beggars, social aids to the poor and less fortunates, and the list just goes on. And these might just be the reason for the recent suburban upraisals that began some 10 days ago.
I don't actually know how did it actually started, I haven't been following the news, not since 2 days ago. But from what I heard on the télé, basically the youth in the cités (the less popular quarters of a city - in Malaysia it's the equivalence of setinggan) is not satisfied with the way the government is handling the problems in these cités; unemployement, discrimination, racisme, and other social problems. And furthemore, the government sent the police to make roundings in these areas to keep an eye on the youths; who're always suspected up to no good. So the youth feels uncomfortable that they're being watched and that their welfare is not taken care of by the government. So they decided, seperately, to launch uprisals in the suburban Paris; which is made up mostly of these sort of cités. They work in small groups of not more than five. They burn cars, shops, busses, and schools. At first these incidents are only in Paris. But as if they just had their callings, the youth in other cities also launched upraisals in their own city, notably the suburban areas. These new attacks in the province (anywhere else outside the capital) are basically copy and paste operations; they employed a similar modus operandi as the ones in Paris. The Reserve Unit was dispatched to these areas to take control of the situation and they managed to arrest some 200 suspects (they burnt up to 800 cars in 10 days). And to everyone's surprise, some of them are only 13 or 14 years old.
Almost every night in the news they showed Lille as one of the target cities, but seriously and luckily, I've not actually heard or seen one.
I don't actually know how did it actually started, I haven't been following the news, not since 2 days ago. But from what I heard on the télé, basically the youth in the cités (the less popular quarters of a city - in Malaysia it's the equivalence of setinggan) is not satisfied with the way the government is handling the problems in these cités; unemployement, discrimination, racisme, and other social problems. And furthemore, the government sent the police to make roundings in these areas to keep an eye on the youths; who're always suspected up to no good. So the youth feels uncomfortable that they're being watched and that their welfare is not taken care of by the government. So they decided, seperately, to launch uprisals in the suburban Paris; which is made up mostly of these sort of cités. They work in small groups of not more than five. They burn cars, shops, busses, and schools. At first these incidents are only in Paris. But as if they just had their callings, the youth in other cities also launched upraisals in their own city, notably the suburban areas. These new attacks in the province (anywhere else outside the capital) are basically copy and paste operations; they employed a similar modus operandi as the ones in Paris. The Reserve Unit was dispatched to these areas to take control of the situation and they managed to arrest some 200 suspects (they burnt up to 800 cars in 10 days). And to everyone's surprise, some of them are only 13 or 14 years old.
Almost every night in the news they showed Lille as one of the target cities, but seriously and luckily, I've not actually heard or seen one.
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