Since June 27th, France has been immersed in absolute chaos, the result of a revolt that has caused an authentic social explosion. Over six nights from Tuesday till Sunday, hundreds of people have been arrested – some days the figure has approached a thousand – anarchy has taken over in several cities with shops being looted from Paris to Marseille, a curfew has been imposed in some towns, public transport throughout the country has been halted nightly at 9pm and more than 45,000 officers are being deployed on French streets.
Only a decision to send in the troops, a step which has already been called for by some political parties and mayors, is left as a measure still pending in the large-scale deployment carried out by the authorities, which, at the time of writing, had produced little result. A local mayor from the southern suburbs of Paris, Vincent Jeambrum, of L’Haÿ-les-Roses denounced an attack on his home by a car in the small hours of Sunday morning.
