Vance: France Riots a Result of Liberals ‘Importing Third World’

U.S. Vice President JD Vance blamed the nationwide riots in France on mass immigration and the inability to integrate large swaths of people from the “third world”, while warning American citizens from following the same destructive path.

Pandemonium erupted across French cities on Saturday as the weeks-long multicultural youth revolt merged with far-left activists supposedly protesting over the cost of living, resulting in widespread clashes with police, mass looting, vandalism, and arson attacks on government buildings, including a fire which burned down the tower of the historic City Hall in Limoges.

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“Outrages were committed by several thousand far-left individuals determined to target our public buildings and confront our law enforcement forces. Later, they were joined by delinquents who looted and ransacked numerous businesses in several cities across France: Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Rennes, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Nice, Limoges, … and many others,” Nuñez said.

While the Macron government has focused on the role of the far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) party of presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in stoking the riots, others have noted that the widespread destruction would not have been possible were it not for the mass migration policies enacted by establishment parties in Paris for decades, leading to the creation of ethnic enclaves in suburbs like Saint-Denis that have bred resentment, including among second and third-generation migrants.

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This sentiment was also shared by some in France, including the Mayor of Nice, Éric Ciotti, who said on Saturday: “Islamo-leftism threatens the Republic. The massive presence of Palestinian flags and community slogans is a terrible reality in these demonstrations, just like the presence of movements close to the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Alongside the black blocs, they seek to overthrow the Republic.”

The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, said that the protests were merely a pretext for the “convergence of an ultra-left terrorism and delinquent populations from the suburbs,” adding: “These scenes of devastation, which illustrate the ‘New France’ that irresponsible individuals seek to unite, will never be acceptable.”

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“Calm, respect for property and persons, civil peace must once again become the normal state of the country.”

In addition to the pervasive destruction seen on Saturday, there was also widespread looting, often carried out by hooded youths. The president of the French Federation of Commerce and Distribution, Alexandre Bompard, estimated that looters directly affected some 1,500 retailers and said the total cost to businesses will likely amount to “several hundred million euros”.

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“Our shopkeepers don’t need this. They fight every day to keep our cities alive, and they are the ones the rioters targeted… This is unacceptable.”

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