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Protesters in Paris commemorate Samuel Paty
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Suddenly he was there and stayed all summer.
The term "ensauvagement", naturalization.
It was talked about all the time, especially when the French local newspapers kept reporting gruesome crimes, robberies and break-ins.
Naturalization.
In Dijon, gangs fought bloody battles, Chechens against Arabs, for days.
The police proved powerless, as in the drug wars in Marseille.
Worse still, the police appeared to many as part of an increasingly violent society, as a catalyst for brutality.
And at some point even the Interior Minister Darmanin warned of France being overgrown.
Are we heading towards a struggle for the soul of society, asked the country's political commentators and television intellectuals?
Is the normal, beautiful life just an excerpt that applies to some cities and provinces, while something completely different unfolds in the suburbs and in the sprawling countryside, a barbarism and evil anarchy?
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