Thibault de Montbrial is a lawyer at the Paris Bar and president of the Center for Reflection on Homeland Security. He has published
Dare authority
(L'Observatoire, 2020) and
Le Sursaut ou le chaos
(Plon, 2015).
FIGAROVOX. - The tragedy in Montpellier has led to tensions between the gypsy community and the North African community, and the December 23 killings have provoked demonstrations of support for the Kurdish community. Are our miscellaneous facts increasingly turning to inter-community conflict? Why ?
Thibault DE MONTBRIAL. -
The last two events you mention follow on from previous events, some of which were very spectacular.
I am particularly thinking of the arrival (sometimes from abroad) of several hundred Chechens in Dijon in June 2020, following a dispute with the Algerian community.
We have therefore already seen such an intercommunity conflict, which had lasted 3 days with scenes of extreme violence, and which had been settled, not by organs of the Republic, but by an imam in a mosque.
This was also the case with the serious violence, although under publicized, in Montpellier ten days ago.
We could also add the hunt for Armenians organized around Lyon by Turkish associations in 2020. More generally,
a significant part of the micro-conflicts that now take place regularly, including in medium-sized cities, have an ethnic dimension, often mixed with criminal interests.
So to conclude, the answer is yes, there will be more and more inter-community conflicts, and that logically follows from a migration policy that has not been controlled for forty years.
France has allowed community islands to multiply on its territory, made up of people who were in conflict in their regions of origin, and one must be very naive to think that they were not going to reproduce these conflicts on our soil.
This is one more illustration of what Gérard Collomb said when he left Place Bauveau in October 2018:
there will be more and more inter-community conflicts, and that logically follows from a migration policy that has not been controlled for about forty years.
France has allowed community islands to multiply on its territory, made up of people who were in conflict in their regions of origin, and one must be very naive to think that they were not going to reproduce these conflicts on our soil.
This is one more illustration of what Gérard Collomb said when he left Place Bauveau in October 2018:
there will be more and more inter-community conflicts, and that logically follows from a migration policy that has not been controlled for about forty years.
France has allowed community islands to multiply on its territory, made up of people who were in conflict in their regions of origin, and one must be very naive to think that they were not going to reproduce these conflicts on our soil.
This is one more illustration of what Gérard Collomb said when he left Place Bauveau in October 2018:
made up of people who were in conflict in their regions of origin, and of whom one must be very naive to think that they were not going to reproduce these conflicts on our soil.
This is one more illustration of what Gérard Collomb said when he left Place Bauveau in October 2018:
made up of people who were in conflict in their regions of origin, and of whom one must be very naive to think that they were not going to reproduce these conflicts on our soil.
This is one more illustration of what Gérard Collomb said when he left Place Bauveau in October 2018:
"We lived side by side, and now I'm afraid we'll meet face to face
. "
Should we see in this the sign of a tribalization of society?
What is certain is that ethno-community violence is a phenomenon that is now repeated regularly, very often under the media radar.
I would add among the contributory factors a very important point, which is that there is a deviation from the right to asylum in France.
It is a fundamental right, and there is no going back on it.
But we see more and more asylum seekers who are contacted by their community of origin and are provided with a lawyer specializing in the geographical area concerned as well as a credible life story with regard to the local context in order to obtain asylum.
Clearly, it is often his community that welcomes the newcomer, and that will provide him with the type of story likely to make him obtain the right of asylum.
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How to stop this phenomenon? Is it still possible?
For me, this is one of the major challenges for the next few years.
If we finally manage to bring order to the borders of France (and of Europe, because we won't be able to do it alone), and to reform the right to asylum in depth, there is still a chance, even if t is now likely that serious violence will continue to increase in our territory.
But if, alas, the current system persists, and if the number of foreigners whose cultures are sometimes very distant from ours (I am thinking in particular of Islamism) and who have strong original solidarities continues to increase, the republican order will always be more difficult to ensure in certain parts of the territory (where law enforcement agencies in particular are more and more often perceived as opposing or even enemy groups).
National cohesion will be put to the test.
The situation is all the more complicated as the far left has entered into a political logic of active support for the phenomenon.
Even if we must beware of simplistic comparisons, too many former Yugoslavs or Lebanese refugees in our country, educated by the circumstances of the collapse of their countries of origin, draw our attention to the seriousness of the current evolution in France so that we do not think seriously about how to preserve our Nation from fractures which could be terrible.