Nelly Garnier is LR advisor for the 11th arrondissement and spokesperson for the
Changer Paris
group
at the Paris Council.
It is the screen of the telephone which lights up and this notification which appears: "Police intervention in progress Richard Lenoir sector at # Paris11".
And here in a few seconds, the painful memories come back.
Mermaids.
The worried figures at the windows.
The wait.
The fear.
Sadness.
The revolt.
Friday September 25, a new dark date is added to the history of the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
With this terrible observation, from Charlie to the Bataclan, Boulevard Richard Lenoir has become a target for those who want to strike France and reach the Republic.
“Paris is a celebration”, we repeated collectively, like a mantra, the day after the attacks of November 13, 2015. “Paris is a celebration”, vital leap, urgent, intimate need to celebrate life, beauty and literature in the face of the horror of barbarism.
Unfortunately, Paris is no longer a party.
We must stop lying to ourselves.
In each major crisis, whether health, social, economic or security, Paris has been on the front line.
Paris has paid a heavy price.
And the observation is there: large metropolises are vulnerable.
They live under constant threat.
And, regularly, they are struck to the heart with unheard-of violence.
Paris is no longer celebrating, we must draw the consequences.
Urban people who have so often been caricatured into carefree, privileged sores, eternal children evolving in a playful and connected world, are above all citizens in danger, living under the threat of the various ills of our time.
The problem is that a certain number of French metropolises are now led by left-wing executives totally disconnected from the issue of security and the protection of populations, and in total denial of the crises we are going through.
A number of French metropolises are now run by left-wing executives who are totally disconnected from the issue of security.
They are turning a blind eye to the security crisis in metropolitan areas where entire neighborhoods are under the control of drug traffickers, with daily attacks that primarily affect lower-income neighborhoods, and with this terrorist threat, which we are trying to forget. each time and which always remembers us, cruelly, violently, tragically.
This left ideologue provides no solution to the economic and social crisis of metropolises where young people can no longer find housing, where local commerce is declining and mass tourism is destroying the soul of the neighborhoods.
On the contrary, their authoritarian measures in terms of mobility only make cities a little more closed in on themselves.
Little by little urban centers are suffocating, emptied of their businesses and their inhabitants.
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Finally, these executives are inconsistent, even demagogues, in the face of the health crisis, this improbable scenario that we imagined confined to science fiction novels, and which has turned our lives upside down in a few weeks calling into question all our urban lifestyles: collective housing, public transport, open spaces, drinks on the terrace and picnics in crowded parks.
Metropolises are threatened.
They are vulnerable.
We know it.
Each crisis reminds us of this.
But in Paris, as in other cities ruled by the left and the ecologists, the municipal executives lead policies totally disconnected from the problems of today, with ever more blindness and dogmatism.
It is obvious in Paris.
Terrorism strikes, delinquency explodes, our businesses are dying, our freedoms evolve according to epidemiological bulletins and the City of Paris has only the coronapists and the right to party as their only answer.
On September 23, when all indicators of the epidemic were on the rise again, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of Health was mainly concerned about the holding of the "White Night", this cultural event initiated by Christophe Girard.
Cycling and partying have become the only answer that the municipal level can provide.
Everything else is sent back to the state.
The municipal level is no longer useful, apart from condemning, apart from sympathizing, apart from repeating over and over that the city must be festive when no one believes in it.
When the Champs-Elysées burn, it's the state's fault.
When residents are helpless in the face of deals and trafficking, it is the state's fault.
When Islamist terrorism strikes, it is the state's fault.
When the economy is down, it's the state's fault.
When we run after masks and tests, it's the state's fault.
The municipal level is no longer useful, apart from condemning, apart from sympathizing, apart from repeating over and over that the city must be festive when no one believes in it.
Worse than that, these municipalities are fueling evils by subsidizing associations that propagate communitarianism or by obstructing the fight against illegal immigration, in particular false unaccompanied minors, which exposes these migrants to all abuses.
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Paris is once again struck by Islamist terrorism.
The deadly ideology, denounced and mocked by Charlie Hebdo, has come to attack our Republic again.
How long will we forgive the elected officials of the City of Paris for not feeling called to act?
How long will we forgive them for not feeling concerned by the protection of Parisians?