Guylain Chevrier is a doctor in history, trainer, teacher and consultant. He is a former member of the secularism mission of the High Council for Integration.
The Stade de France in Saint-Denis will soon host the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool.
On an American television set, Thierry Henry, top scorer for the France team and former Arsenal player, made it clear that the match would not be played in Paris:
“Technically, the stadium is located in Saint-Denis .
Saint-Denis is not Paris.
Believe me, you don't want to be in Saint-Denis, it's not the same as Paris”.
This sentence angered the mayor of the city.
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Mathieu Hanotin reacted on his Facebook account:
"The contempt with which you have characterized our city is not acceptable."
He added:
"We are not Paris, but that does not mean that we are infrequent.",
to clarify
"The situation in the suburbs today is the result of a concentration of poverty on the outskirts of Paris and a abandonment of the State for working-class neighborhoods (…) This failure of public policies should not be a pretext for ridicule from well-known personalities.
It should be noted that the mayor recognizes the problem in a certain way, since he himself evokes
"the situation of the suburbs",
abandoned by the state.
Strong words to implicitly justify that all is not rosy in Saint-Denis.
He thus gives reason to Thierry Henry's remark.
By the very fact of the religious and cultural homogeneity of this immigration, we favor a community confinement, not to say a communitarian one, even less favorable to a successful integration.
Guylain Chevrier
Some figures on crime in the public security district of Saint-Denis, on which the city of Saint-Denis depends (the Internet user and the ONDRP, per thousand inhabitants).
To stick to two significant areas: Violence against people: 36.39% against 20.56% in Seine-Saint-Denis, 13.12% in Île-de-France and 10.64% in France;
Thefts and damage: 58.5%, more than double the national average.
The massive reception in the social park of immigrants in a depressed economic context, with a level of income and study lower than the average, pushing to the disappearance of the social mix, contrary to the conditions of a successful integration, does not isn't it a major cause of the difficulties?
Isn't this possibly creating fractures that will lead to delinquency in some,
inevitably?
The regular increase in the number of foreigners among the prisoners, who represent about a quarter of them whereas there are only 5.1 million in our country and therefore only 7.6 percent of the population according to the 'Insee, shouldn't attract attention here?
And if we take as a reference the nationality of the parents of prisoners, the figures soar.
Does looking away, crying foul, help solve the problem?
the numbers are skyrocketing.
Does looking away, crying foul, help solve the problem?
the numbers are skyrocketing.
Does looking away, crying foul, help solve the problem?
By the very fact of the religious and cultural homogeneity of this immigration, we favor a community confinement, not to say a communitarian one, even less favorable to a successful integration.
Hence another link between community confinement, rejection of integration up to that of France, breeding ground favorable to outlaws, even radicalization.
A policy reinforced by its counterpart, politico-religious clientelism.
For the Eid-el-Fitr ceremony (celebration of the end of the month of fasting), the Auguste-Delaune stadium in Saint-Denis was made available, a public facility financed by public funds, where more of 6000 people.
On this occasion, Stéphane Peu, deputy, believed it legitimate to express his "unwavering commitment to defend the Muslims of France, who have often been attacked in recent months" according to him, and called to show the "good face of Seine-Saint -Denis”, that of “a multicultural and multicultural society which knows how to live together while respecting each other”.
This is how we appeal to the vote of our fellow citizens of the Muslim faith, capturing it under cover of a feeling of victimization with regard to their religion.
Is this the remedy?
It's poison for our social cohesion!
We cannot forget the testimony of Fewzi Benhabib, an Algerian academic who took refuge in France after being on the list of Islamists in his country.
Guylain Chevrier
We will remember the speech of Gérard Collomb leaving the Ministry of the Interior in 2018, pointing
to “the Parisian crown”
to say
that in certain districts “the situation is very degraded (…) it is the law of the strongest which is imposes, that of drug traffickers and radical Islamists, who have taken the place of the Republic",
and to add
"We live side by side, I fear that tomorrow we will live face to face
".
We cannot forget the testimony of Fewzi Benhabib, an Algerian academic who took refuge in France after having been on the list of Islamists in his country, entitled:
"Saint-Denis, my city in the Islamist era"
: "To
Saint-Denis, a fracture has opened up that my Algerian experience prevents me from ignoring.
It is deepening there, along the sidewalks, in the middle of the streets, at the Sunday market, and yet politicized citizens refuse to know that an alternative, obscurantist and communitarian social project is eating away at the democratic cement of a society that they want – we all want – plural.”
I advise Mr. Hanotin to read it again.
Also, what Didier Daeninckx, a man of the left if there is one, says on the subject, who confided his concern in 2016 in an article in the newspaper
Marianne
, entitled “Islamism in Saint-Denis, “a reality denied and avoided from sight”” And the departure of tens of thousands of Jewish families from certain suburban districts, for fear of anti-Semitic acts which are multiplying, more and more violent, doesn't that exist either?
It is the Republic that has most often been abandoned in the neighborhoods, with the complicity of elected officials, playing against the unity of the nation, against equality and freedom.
Guylain Chevrier
During the 2017 presidential campaign, Mr. Hanotin was the campaign manager of Benoît Hamon who spoke of "hysteria" in France against Islam, to say that
"secularism has become the convenient pretext for an offensive as virulent as it is disorderly against Islam”.
He thus denied the rise of radical Islam and communitarianism.
The text that Mr. Hanotin's party has just signed with insubordinate France, as an electoral agreement with a view to the legislative elections, is purged of any reference to secularism, a value and historical principle of the left.
It is thus necessary to put a certain flat in the glance carried by the mayor of Saint-Denis on the state of his city and the suburbs.
Let us recall in passing that the State, far from abandoning the populations in difficulty gives them, in France, whatever their origins, colors, religions, the same social rights.
On the side of city policy, it is not the billions that have been missing, but perhaps to use them wisely, in other words, by carrying out a republican policy based on equality and secularism.
We probably wouldn't be there.
This is what must be done!
On the other hand, we too often seek to buy social peace from religious leaders, which does not solve anything, on the contrary, aggravates the difficulties by fragmenting a little more.
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is the Republic that has most often been abandoned in the neighborhoods, with the complicity of elected officials, playing against the unity of the nation, against equality and freedom.
Fraternity is when we first recognize each other as equals, then we can mingle, form a society, otherwise we divide, to the point of the danger of the affirmation of a nation in the Nation, and of the confrontation.
Thanks to Thierry Henry for having given the opportunity for this reminder.
and confrontation.
Thanks to Thierry Henry for having given the opportunity for this reminder.
and confrontation.
Thanks to Thierry Henry for having given the opportunity for this reminder.