The tragic week of President Macron
A revolt, a lot of chaos and violence in his overseas territories, rampant drug crime and anti-Semitic attacks in France. Emmanuel Macron has had a heavy week, barely three weeks before the European elections.
Civil war in France, 18,000 kilometers from Paris. That's what Louis Le Franc, High Commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, a territory under the French flag since 1853, fears. Some forces representing the indigenous "Kanak" population oppose a constitutional project that could make them a minority in future elections.
Two prison officials were murdered in cold blood when a prison administration van was attacked to free Mohamed Amra, a notorious repeat offender - further tragic evidence, if any were needed, of the violence and impunity with which drug crime operates on French territory. The impact of this event was multiplied by the recordings made by the cell phones of witnesses, including many schoolchildren on a bus at the Incarville toll stop in Normandy.
And on Friday morning, an attempt was made to attack a synagogue in Rouen. The perpetrator, an Algerian against whom a deportation order had been issued, entered the synagogue and set fire, alerting neighbors. When the police arrived on the scene, the man attacked them and brandished a knife. He was shot dead by police.
(FVDV and MaSi for Tagtik/Photo: Jacques Paquier via Wikicommons under license Creative Commons CC BY 2.0)
