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Wakko Warner
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il 2016-08-01 19:31:00.0 alle 2016-08-01 19:31:00.0
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Could France, a nation long-considered a beacon of liberty and stability, be on the edge of something resembling a civil war?
I wish I could say this was exaggeration. But the evidence does not support complacency. Just down the road from me, on the outskirts of Montpellier, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, there’s long been a gun club where enthusiastic game hunters can polish their skills during the off-season. Unlike in Britain, it is legal for members of such clubs to own pistols and semi-automatic rifles.
In the last few months, since the terrorism intensified, the membership of the gun club has quadrupled, from 200 to 800. The new members are not all motivated by the love of shooting sports. Pascal, a local farmer who owns a dozen rifles, pistols and shotguns, as well as an AK-47 assault rifle, admitted to something much darker.
“They’re getting ready for a war,” he said.
This sounds crazy, but, even before the atrocity in Nice, it was revealed that Patrick Calvar, a senior French intelligence official, had told a parliamentary committee that one more incident could provoke a bloody civil conflict.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigrant National Front, does nothing to calm these fears.
“The war against Islamic fundamentalism has not yet begun. Now, it is necessary to urgently declare it,” she said last week.
As a Brit who has lived in France for 15 years, I like to think I know my neighbours. I’ve mastered the language, and have even been elected to the local council. So my observations are not a tourist’s snapshot. I talk to people at every level of French society and I am detecting a change of mood. And the mood is turning nasty.
Normally, it takes quite a bit to excite my neighbours under the languid southern sun, but as one horror has followed another, I am no longer taking for granted that they will put up with this much longer.
Could France, a nation long-considered a beacon of liberty and stability, be on the edge of something resembling a civil war?
I wish I could say this was exaggeration. But the evidence does not support complacency. Just down the road from me, on the outskirts of Montpellier, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, there’s long been a gun club where enthusiastic game hunters can polish their skills during the off-season. Unlike in Britain, it is legal for members of such clubs to own pistols and semi-automatic rifles.
In the last few months, since the terrorism intensified, the membership of the gun club has quadrupled, from 200 to 800. The new members are not all motivated by the love of shooting sports. Pascal, a local farmer who owns a dozen rifles, pistols and shotguns, as well as an AK-47 assault rifle, admitted to something much darker.
“They’re getting ready for a war,” he said.
This sounds crazy, but, even before the atrocity in Nice, it was revealed that Patrick Calvar, a senior French intelligence official, had told a parliamentary committee that one more incident could provoke a bloody civil conflict.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigrant National Front, does nothing to calm these fears.
“The war against Islamic fundamentalism has not yet begun. Now, it is necessary to urgently declare it,” she said last week.
As a Brit who has lived in France for 15 years, I like to think I know my neighbours. I’ve mastered the language, and have even been elected to the local council. So my observations are not a tourist’s snapshot. I talk to people at every level of French society and I am detecting a change of mood. And the mood is turning nasty.
Normally, it takes quite a bit to excite my neighbours under the languid southern sun, but as one horror has followed another, I am no longer taking for granted that they will put up with this much longer.
Gli Svizzeri non sono tutti ricchi - Mattia
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Francia sull'orlo della guerra civile @ 2016-08-01 19:31:00.0 di Wakko Warner
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■ @ 2016-08-01 21:09:09.0 di Non Autenticato
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