France: Soccer Riot in Paris: Who Is to Blame?

This past Saturday, there was the League of Champions European soccer finals in Paris between Real Madrid and Liverpool. Many soccer fans from Spain and England traveled to France to attend the match. The same day, French unions called a transport strike, which caused many fans to arrive to the stadium late. There was some jostling and tempers flared. That was bad enough. Worse were the actions of young thugs from the surrounding Saint-Denis neighborhood who tried to storm their way into the stadium without tickets and who began attacking English and Spanish fans outside the stadium. Saint-Denis is a suburb of Paris inhabited mostly by North African immigrants. 

Of course, France's feckless interior minister, an empty suit named Gerald Darmanin, blamed it all on the English fans, some of who, he claimed showed up with counterfeit tickets or no tickets at all.

If you go to this link, the French blog, Francois DeSouche, you can find several videos showing the rioting as well as English-language interviews with several English fans who were subjected to violence. 

In the below article from Valeurs Actuelles, Eriz Zemmour, a French writer and political candidate, puts his thoughts on the fiasco in writing. The translation is by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/tribune-eric-zemmour-les-deux-matchs-du-stade-de-france

(Tribune) Eric Zemmour: The two matches at the Stadium of France

Violence broke out on the sidelines of the League of Champions final, in Seine St-Denis, Saturday 28 May. Eric Zemmout. president of Reconquest (party) and candidate for the legislature in the 4th district of Var, denounces a "civil war led against our people by the barbarians," and calls for a wakeup.

By Eric Zemmour, May 30 2022 at 18:11. Updated  31 May 2022 at 11:30

On Saturday, while the Real (Madrid)- Liverpool match was being played on the field of the Stadium of France, another match was raging on the outside of the enclosure. This second match saw the police against the enemies of France. This second match, France lost in the eyes of the whole world.

What happened? France organized the most-watched sporting event of the year in the entire world.  In terms of popularity, the final of the League of Champions is surpassed only by the World Cup. On the 5 continents, it is awaited with passion. The number of TV spectators is over one billion, and the organizing country knows that it must deploy the treasures of professionalism so that the event is a great moment of sporting and festive communion. Especially when you have on the bill two absolutely mythical teams, the splendid Real Madrid and the legendary Liverpool Football Club.

But the international festival turned into a local civil war. What happened? Delayed by the public transport strike, knowingly organized that day by the leftist unions, ready to sow disorder, a  number of Liverpool fans arrived late to the stadium. One can easily understand their disappointment: The evening was one of the most important in their lives, and then the French union(s) caused them to miss the opening kickoff. Jostling, anger, (and) trouble began. But the incident would have ended there, and the match would have been simply delayed a bit-nothing serious.

Then a crowd of scum from Saint-Denis showed up. The media call them "youth". A crowd? A horde. Or more precisely, an army. Because, if they had perhaps, a vague desire to attend the match without paying, their first, deep motivation was to sow chaos, to loot, and to confront the police in closed ranks.

This army quickly overwhelm(ed) the police, and the madness set in around the Stadium of France, which is French only in name. Our heroic police managed to hold back the tsunami of barbarians, but the images are dreadful. It is a raid of pillage and violence. Some fans are beaten up, abused, and robbed. The violence is total. The next day, the experts say we almost had an even worse catastrophe, that could have resulted in several deaths. Fortunately, this battle did not produce any deaths, but it did happen, and it has a global repercussion. In every country, the media are formal and unanimous. They have never seen such scenes in connection with a match, and many English and Spanish fans say they will never return (to France). France is being described as a third-world country, plagued and quite incapable of organizing a League of Champions final.  Shame descends upon our reputation. 

And it is even worse. Because the State, Gerald Darmanin in the lead, designates the Liverpool fans as the most culpable of this great security Beresina. Gerald Darmanin no doubt finds the risk of a diplomatic incident with the English less dangerous than with Seine Saint-Denis. This time, dishonor is added to the shame. Because in refusing to point the finger at the true culprits-the openly anti-French scum- Macronism is not content to insult the entire English people, and through them, football fans as a whole. It shows unspeakable cowardice and a denial of reality that borders on willful blindness.

Because we know perfectly well that the army of thugs who attacked the Stadium of France is a direct result of immigration: The first arrestees at Saint-Denis Saturday included not one Englishman, nor one Spaniard, but a majority were Algerians (18), Tunisians (2), and Moroccans (2), as well as "9 French of whom 7 had Magrebian (N. African) or African names," as confided a police source to Valeurs Actuelles. And their hatred of our country is carefully stirred up by the extreme left (61.13% for Melanchon in the first round in Saint-Denis). They want to submit France to their frenzy, they say it, they sing it, they shout it, and only the deaf refuse to understand them. The battle of the Stadium of France is for them a moment of universally publicized glory, a spectacular victory over French civilization. In avoiding denouncing their dangerousness, in letting them off as innocents and blaming the Liverpool fans, the authorities only encourage them to go further. They will, we can be certain. Real Madrid narrowly defeated Liverpool, but it is the general delinquency that won against Friday that evening. 

The civil war that is being led against our people by the barbarians is in full swing. There is nothing more hidden or underground. This war, I want to remind you, we never wanted. We have done everything to avoid it, but it has been imposed on us. The scum have imposed it on us with the help of the Islamo-leftist ideologues, who are their premier supporters. From this point on, it is a fact: It is there, and it must be stopped. Otherwise, France will be eliminated, not only on the international scene, but just as much from its own history.

So let us refuse to listen any longer to those who so brazenly lie about our situation and our destiny. We will not let them accept defeat. The legislative election is the time to show that the French people are still a great nation and that it is still capable of defending itself. It is up to us to be the best guardians of our country.