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France is known for its damaging riots, and increasingly those riots are costing the country billions. In many cases, these riots are fueled by migrants and those with a migration background, who torch cars, destroy businesses, and sometimes even burn monuments and buildings to the ground.
Once again, the solution is to charge citizens for the giant mess created by those on the left and “center” who promoted mass immigration for France. According to French newspaper Les Echos, the government wants to create a state-backed reinsurance fund to cover riot-related damage, with the fund to be worth approximately €775 million per year.
There are many estimates as to how much these riots cost, with many of them covered extensively by Remix News, but various estimates have put them over a billion a year.
The government is taking its inspiration from natural disaster funds, which help cover events like fires and floods. However, unlike many natural disasters, the riots are arguably preventable, especially as they appear to be fueled by France’s exploding migrant population.
What does that mean for French people? It means a 5 percent mandatory insurance surcharge that all French must pay for “property damage” contracts. Insurers would have to pay €300 million into the fund.
However, how would a riot be determined in order to know whether such an event applies for insurance fund payouts? Currently, there are two possibilities: one is that the state declares a “riot” on a case-by-case basis, or alternatively, uses one simple legal definition of a riot, but that option may be more likely to be challenged in the courts.
Lawyer Romain Dupeyré said: “This option has the advantage of providing, on a case-by-case basis, a definitive definition of what constitutes a riot. But since the decision is made by the state, it could be subject to political or budgetary considerations.”
Riots connected to mass immigration
Remix News already covered in many cases the link between the most damaging riots and mass immigration.
In 2023, a video garnered over 1.5 million views on Twitter alone involving the then leader of the Les Republicans senate group, Bruno Retailleau (now the interior minister). He said that it is clear that immigrants, including second- and third-generation people with an immigration background, were responsible for the rioting that caused widespread destruction across the country.
“I heard that (French Interior Minister) Gerard Darmanin, yesterday at the National Assembly, said there is no link between these events and immigration. Of course there is… I’ve asked many mayors. They all tell you that it’s precisely in the neighborhoods where there are migratory ghettos. Certainly, they are French, but they are French in their official identity, and, unfortunately, for the second, third generation (of immigrants), there’s a kind of regression back towards their ethnic origins,” said Retailleau in an interview with FranceInfo.
Retailleau has been widely criticized for his failure to stem the crime and migration crisis while serving as the current interior minister, but his words in 2023 reflected the position and belief of many French people.
“We know the causes. And I want to reiterate them. Unfortunately, I’m afraid the government is tempted by the politics of failure. Once more, the French, the silent majority do not understand that there is a cold anger that is rising in the country. Because it is a double punishment for the French, because they paid into the neighborhoods, and now they have to rebuild because the savages burned them down,” he said.
Retailleau was referring to a week-long riot that produced 3,000 arrests, hundreds of wounded police officers, thousands of arson attacks, and historic landmarks, including the famed Alcazar Library, nearly burned to the ground. In one case, a flaming vehicle was even sent into a mayor’s home, nearly killing his family.
However, since then, there have been mass riots many times over in France, with many producing huge amounts of damage.
Just this year, following riots in Paris following a football match, a Hungarian commentator pointed to “Arabs and people of color” as the perpetrators.
He said it was “forbidden to talk about” that the attacks and mass riots in Paris were done by migrants, Arabs, and people of color, and according to him, there is no denying it based on the video footage flowing out of Paris.
Zsolt Bayer, writing for Magyar Nemzet newspaper, one of the most widely read newspapers in Hungary, wrote that chaos in France left 264 cars burned, 692 cases of arson, one police officer in a coma, and two people dead, one due to stab wounds and the other due to a car accident. In addition, mass looting ensued, and 192 people were injured, along with 21 police officers and seven firefighters.
However, paying more for riots is just a drop in the bucket towards the overall cost of migration. One academic researcher puts the cost at €25 billion per year, due to housing, social welfare, and integration costs.
