Train Attacked in Marseille

This story of an attack on a freight train in Marseille has been widely reported on the web. This version is from Novopress:

In Marseille, as in many other French cities, crime is part of the landscape. Besides drug trafficking that took root a very long time ago, other, equally grave, events take place every day in the Phocaean capital.

Note: "Phocaean capital" is the French nickname for Marseille. The city was founded by the sea-faring Greek Phocaeans in 600 B.C. and named Massalia.

Last night, a passenger train, the Regional Express (TER), was blocked violently, at the risk of causing a serious accident. Huge quantities of objects had been thrown onto the rails in the Nord districts of Marseille, by "a group of about twenty young people" said AFP (Agence France Presse). According to the Télégramme, the locomotive was damaged when it brutally struck a shopping cart. A freight train that was following behind was in turn blocked by the TER but fortunately did not hit it. The "young people" could not get into the TER, but the freight train became the scene of a veritable razzia.

Note: The "young people" wore hoods, according to L'Humanité.

We won't discuss the designation "young people" used by the lobby of political correctness and "newspeak" that the AFP represents. This crime took place near the Ruisseau Mirabeau ghetto in the 15th arrondissement, a ghetto where immigrants of all origins are concentrated.

Unquestionably very skilled when it is a matter of acting badly, these "young people" obstructed the rails with metal beams and supermarket carts. Once the two trains had stopped, the cars of the freight train were opened by a horde of thugs who stole the contents with all impunity. According to a police union representative, "we thought attacks like this from another age had disappeared after security measures were put in place," adding: "It's almost back to the days of stagecoach robberies."

While this was going on, Interior Minister Guéant and his acolytes of the UMP were boasting about their record on crime...

Note: All the reports I read compare this attack to the Wild West and the days of the stagecoach. But there are some differences. The West was wild and had to be tamed. There was a general consensus concerning right and wrong, and men were called in to stop crime in the newer territories. It was the outlaw against the man of the law. Today it is protected minorities against the civilization that is protecting them. And we aren't allowed to say bad things about these "young people", because that would mean that we are "bad people".

A reader sent me a slide show of recent photos of Marseille. There are many to choose from. Here are three. In the first one we see that the burka is not banned everywhere in France. Or is this France?

Below, I think that's a souk.

Below, an inviting housing project.