2023-07-03 17:16:17
– France counts the wounds of its violence
Damage in the hundreds of millions of euros, tourist cancellations, international criticism of the French police: the toll of the Nahel affair is heavy.
Posted today at 7:16 p.m.
Tourists in front of the Arc de Triomphe, July 2, 2023. Many of them have canceled their trip following the violence of recent days.
EPA/OLIVIER MATTHYS
“Douce France/Dear country of my childhood/Lulled by tender carelessness…” How far away it seems today, this eternal France sung by Charles Trenet. To those who are nostalgic for it, let’s remember that the song dates from 1943, in the middle of the Occupation, and that eternal France is not only made of sweetness, but also of jacqueries, of freedom conquered with beatings of severed heads (1793) , and an almost mystical conception of violence (1870, 1968) as a midwife of change. France, sweet France, is also a land of violence, as the riots of this past week have reminded us.
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