Many pessimists lament with regards to the French riots that the country is already lost. However, there has been resistance against the rioting migrants and the state’s inactivity. The community patrol of young Frenchmen in Lyon went viral. The Heimatkurier had an exclusive chance to talk to an activist involved.
Heimatkurier: The whole of Europe is currently talking about the French riots: As a response, you organised community patrols in Lyon, videos of which are circulating throughout the internet. What caused this? What message do you intend to convey through that?
Identitarian activist:
In Lyon, we succeeded in mobilising Identitarian, but also other groups of activists. We aimed to advance to the high road in the city centre, in which there had been many assaults and widespread
looting the days prior. There was about 200 of us. Unfortunately, police prevented us from reaching the scene of events. We were faced with gas and batons, until we were finally disbanded. The main
goal was to demonstrate that the native youth will neither be crushed by immigrant thugs nor by left wing extremists, and that it will not just watch their country drown in fire and blood.
How did these patrols go? Did you face conflict? How did police react? Have there been reactions on the part of the people?
Regarding our mobilisation it can be said that it lasted for only a short duration. As I have stated before, police thwarted our effort. Nevertheless, they have been spread widely throughout social
networks and viewed millions of times. The local police headquarters made a statement on their measures taken against our group and were harshly criticised. Witnesses and online users are taken
aback by the police’s approach against a group of citizens, while the town is simultaneously being engulfed with fire and blood by criminal scum. In other towns, there have been much more violent conflicts, mainly in Chambéry and Angers, which is where left wing extremists have teamed up with criminal migrants, to ravage a venue of the Identitarians in the city centre.
Have the media outlets become aware of you yet? If so, in what fashion do they report on you, specifically in contrast to the migrant rioters and looters?
The media have scrambled to get to report on this topic. You have to know that the Identitarians are receiving a great deal of attention by the press. There has a been a series of articles in which there
were talks of a right wing intervention during the riots. At the same time, we were in contact with investigative journalists, to convey our campaign, and also our demands and goals more clearly. Mainstream outlets have not established a connection between rioters and our mobilisation. They simply reported on our presence and aforementioned clashes with police.
Some commentators who tend to be middle class are of the opinion that such patrols appear intimidating, provide a perfect setup, and are, therefore, counterproductive. How would you react to such criticism?
Some of these middle class, who are often sovereignists or (purely ideological) anti-republicans, have unabashedly explained, that our mobilisations bore a negative impact on the news and furnished the media a fit occasion to report on something other than the ethnic unrest. Our reaction to this baseless criticism is quite plain.
Those who frequently hunker down behind their computers, wait for the big moment. They are often cowards who justify the lack in courage with a possible, great collapse. We respond to these
that a deep-rooted youth is being mobilised to show that there still exists a real a youthful country that will rise up to the negligence of our politics and the consequences of immigration. This is happening, whilst others watch behind their screens how their country collapses under the pressure of immigration. We are of the opinion that only those who are active, have a say in this debate.
There are further towns in which the right wing youth and the general populace have formed self defence groups. Can the riots be regarded as an opportunity for the formation of new groups and unions?
I believe, instead, that this period of unrest will reveal more strikingly than ever before the divides in the French society. The frontline runs between an alliance of criminal scum and the migrationfriendly left on the one, and the rooted people who no longer tolerate to be humiliated, attacked and robbed, on the other side. Not long ago, we experienced events with far reaching consequences for
the right, such as the death of Lola, who was murdered by an illegal Algerian woman; but the most recent events are a true turning point in my eyes. For example, the sum of donations for the accused
policeman has accumulated to over 1.5 million Euros by now. This means there are Identitarians who show up on the street, but also the silent people who donate, while the donations for the deceased immigrant do not amount to more than 500.000 Euros.
At the moment, the turmoil is seemingly fading – is this effect merely temporary? How, do you reckon, will it continue in the upcoming weeks, talking both in politics and out on the streets?
Yes, it does look like the turmoil is fading. I believe this comes down to a number of factors: The most prominent of which is the marauders‘ sociology, since one-third of those apprehended is
younger than 18. Secondly, the influence of drug trade in the urban quarters is gaining relevance again, because the unrest hurts the business. Now, the leaders of associations and funds for the
banlieues will commence to demand more money from the authorities, who will then donate out of fear and because they have seen the damage potential of the mob. Politically speaking, the conservative Republicans show up quite offensively during the events. Probably they just attempt to burnish their image in comparison with Éric Zemmour’s “Reconquête”. The right wing majority party in France, the Rassemblement National, has coped
well with going through a sequence of first offensive, and then firm and authoritarian seriousness, befitting a ruling party.
In summary, I think that the riots mark a turning point in the political developments of modern France. The disparity between woke, migration-friendly indigenists, and deep-rooted, conservative
forces are becoming increasingly apparent, and the images have shocked the population extensively, which contributes to awareness-raising concerning the dangers of immigration.
Many observers and commentators respond to the events with defeatism: “France is lost” – you are proving the opposite. What is your message for the French and European youth in light of that?
It is utterly false to believe that France is lost. In the end, the turmoil has lasted no longer than 5 days. The riots have been mostly contained despite enormous damage to property. I hold that the
chasm between left and right has deepened massively, and that irresolute centrists can no longer hide behind a republican front. The Identitarians were, initially, involved in spreading information, and later, in the peoples‘ revolt against the thugs; we have undisputedly contributed to enlightening a part of the population on the topic and the dangers of immigration. After the period of unrest we have had plenty of requests for recruitment and want to urgently call
on French and European youths to take a stand for the salvation of their people.