Renaud Camus on the Riots

Writer Renaud Camus has no doubts about the nature of the riots. This communiqué #1117 is from his website. He entitles it "The War in Lyons":

(We) express our exasperation with the mendacious obstinacy - even if it is by omission - of the media, who continue to speak of the very grave events in Lyons, without ever mentioning their essentially and almost exclusively ethnic nature, except through the few cryptic allusions that have become de rigueur. The scenes of devastation are, in truth, one more manifestation, and one of the most violent, of the hateful aggression of counter-colonizing forces against the indigenous population and its property.

It is in complete conformity with the warrior tradition of conquerers that the fight for territory takes on a systematic character of pillage and razzias, which are not separable, in their minds, from military actions. On the contrary, they constitute one of the fundamental aspects of the conflict.

Thus, for a long time now, any traveler could attest to the fact that the historic center of Lyons, capital of the Gauls and capital of the Resistance, was an occupied zone, at least during the day and at ground level. There's nothing surprising, except of course for journalists nourished daily on the blinding milk of organic sociology, that this de facto occupation turns into a true conquest at the first opportunity.

(We) consider that one of the most depressing things about the current situation, for the indigenous people, is that the ruin and sack of their country are taking place in silence - from the media, from those entrusted with writing history - without ever being designated, named or recognized. Worse still, it is happening amidst the debilitating babble of deceiving words, invented not to be intelligible, forged not to be shown, cleverly dressed up to hide the truth and to put you to sleep.