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Interview for Muslim website Oumma.com.
Former head of the security intelligence service of the Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), Alain Chouet has just published "Seven steps to hell", a book in which he depicts a French society deeply sick with separatism and [Islamic] fundamentalist violence. "Forty years of blindness, ignorance, cowardice and 'well-meaning' have gradually led France to the limits of breaking the republican pact," he wrote.
France would have 1514 neighborhoods of lawlessness, prohibiting access to security forces, emergency services, medical and social services. 1514 neighborhoods established in 859 municipalities, and bringing together 4 million inhabitants, or 6% of the population of France.
In your book, you speak of separatism in France. How exactly does it translate? Shouldn't we rather speak of a suffered ghettoization, with a total absence of social diversity, in neighborhoods sometimes abandoned?
[…] “Ghettoization”, often invoked to explain this separation, is first and foremost a victim argument to justify separatism and the violence it engenders. This ghettoization was as much chosen as suffered. All the waves of migration that France has experienced over the past century were first grouped together by affinity and for economic reasons in given geographical areas, and this did not give rise to phenomena of localized violent dissidence. They were then diluted throughout the territory, as the assimilation of the second and third generations took place.
This dilution did not occur for North African immigration, which arrived massively and suddenly in the 1970s in a country whose economic slowdown did not allow them to be integrated through the social positioning provided by a job, nor to guarantee them a level minimal life without recourse to massive social transfers which they quickly perceived as an annuity which it was appropriate, for some of them, to supplement by remunerative delinquent activities which it was necessary to protect by isolation from the rest of the community. national community.
Hence the formation of these famous "ghettos" that the various authorities have tried to reduce by a policy of building social housing and by an uncontrolled and massive dumping of aid and subsidies within the framework of "city policies". This aid was seen as a supplement to social assistance pensions and never contributed to the integration of the supposed beneficiaries. Similarly, social housing construction policies have resulted in the appearance of new ghettos, with the original residents of the neighborhood fleeing the arrival of new beneficiaries whose behaviors and practices are often “dissident”. […]
You talk about the discovery, on the outskirts of a big city, of weapons of war, assault rifles, rocket launchers, and the decision of the authorities to do nothing, because an operation would risk "putting set fire" to a sensitive neighborhood and would contribute to "stigmatising" its inhabitants. You do not say when this information dates from. Do you think that even today the authorities would decide not to do anything?
I dated this notation to the late 90s. It's not very accurate, but it gives an indication. So that was a little over twenty years ago. Things have obviously changed since then and the multiplication of terrorist attacks, from 2001, all over the world and more particularly since 2015, in France, has obviously changed the situation. No administrative or political leader could today adopt a reserved or dilatory attitude in relation to such facts. […]
https://oumma.com/alain-chouet-il-ex...s-de-securite/
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