Italian journalist Giulio Meotti thinks so; the riots are not dying out but spreading, the violence is more intense, and the police, who no longer intimidate, have themselves become the objects of unhinged anger and murderous assaults. More on the reasons why the army may have to be called out to patrol the cities of France can be found here: âFrance will soon call out the army to stop the barbarians,â by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, October 13, 2026:
âTo the French police officers I say: you are the last bulwark. If you give way, it will be great disorder. It will be the victory of the barbarians. Be proud of your uniform.â
Thousands of police officers place their bodies between the horde that sets fire to everything it finds, prevents residents from going down into the streets in safety, and forces thousands of schools to close.
761 police officers and gendarmes injured by stones, firecrackers, and Molotov cocktails.
While England is no longer safe enough to host American warplanes even on its military bases, there is only a police officer standing between civilization and chaos.
In Bordeaux, the barbarians blocked the entrance to the Capucins police station and set it on fire to stop the officers from coming out.
At this moment there is nothing more important in Europe than what is happening in France.
If the police give way, who will defend this poor old world that they are so eager to sweep away?
The politicians who caused this disaster? For a week, Emmanuel Macron has said nothing.
According to an Elabe poll, 55 percent of the French say they approve of the riots.
Michel Houellebecq had already foreseen this defeat by exhaustion in âSubmissionâ:
âFor some months the attitude of the center-left media had changed: violence in the suburbs and interethnic clashes were no longer mentioned at all; the problem was simply ignored; they had even stopped denouncing the âCassandras,â who for their part had ended up falling silent. People in general seemed to have grown tired of hearing the subject discussed; and, in the circles I frequented, the fatigue seemed to have set in earlier than elsewhere; âwhat must happen will happenâ â that was how the common feeling could be summed up.â
If the police were to give way, only the army would remain, and I am sure few want to see the army take control of Europeâs streets.
Meotti paints an appalling portrait of France today. He now is convinced that the police are not up to the task of suppressing the rioters. The French government, he believes, will have to call out the army. And then what? Will the Muslims be subdued, or will they conduct a guerrilla war in the midst of French cities, against the army and the French civilians who will unavoidably be caught in the crossfire?
A report in The Telegraph tells a disturbing story of counterterrorism policing targeting a British mother for her support of Israel.
According to the report, police visited the home of Holly Passmore, 44, of County Durham in northeast England, on July 4, 2025, after an anonymous referral to the governmentâs Prevent program flagged her support for Israel following an educational trip organized by Israelâs embassy in London.
Prevent is Britainâs government counter-extremism program. Referrals are assessed for potential security threats or concerns that someone vulnerable could be drawn into radicalization. Police say support offered through the program is voluntary.
The report cited records Passmore subsequently obtained showing that the referral characterized her involvement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as excessive, citing her decision to travel to Israel. It also alleged mental health issues and susceptibility to harmful influence.
However, a police intelligence report reviewed by The Telegraph explicitly acknowledged that supporting Israel or traveling there did not constitute a counterterrorism concern.
Passmore, who is not Jewish, told the newspaper that officers questioned her connections to Israel, future travel plans, interest in Jewish matters, and whether she had visited Auschwitz.
âWhen they came to the door, they didnât discuss my health. They only asked about Israel.”
Passmore cares for her nine-year-old son, who has severe autism, and is pursuing a masterâs degree in Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa. She disputed the referralâs characterization of her health and vulnerability.
According to the report, after she complained, two other officers, including a superintendent, visited and assured her she was not regarded as a terrorist or extremist. She alleges the superintendent also encouraged her to stop discussing the incident online.
The newspaper also reported that Passmore discovered her medical records had designated her a vulnerable adult shortly after her Israel trip. The designation was subsequently removed. She said neither change was explained to her and questioned whether it was connected to the referral.
Counter Terrorism Policing North East declined to discuss her case. The Telegraph said Durham Constabulary and the regional health board had been approached for comment.
On today’s show journalist and broadcaster Colin Brazier joins Rafe Heydel-Mankoo to discuss civil strife in France and the implications for Britain, youth and the future of the populist right in Britain, demographic change in Britain and pro-natalism,
They enjoyed a private box on the occasion while seemingly oblivious to the chaos unfolding across France as fury with his impotent government spilled onto the streets.
Brigitte Macron dances and sings at the Celine Dion concert alongside her husband as France burns during the ongoing riots. đ«đ· pic.twitter.com/Wj0dv6mK8H
Meanwhile the country was going up in flames, as Breitbart London reported, with organised mass looting, widespread clashes with police, and vandalism a feature of the mass unrest along with arson of government buildings.
One furious demonstrator likened Macron, 48, and Brigitte, 78 to Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, the French king and his wife who were executed in the 1789 revolution.
Lina Bernard, an organiser of a protest rally in Paris, told the Mail on Sunday the couple âwere acting like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetteâ â both of whom were executed in the 1789 revolution with brought down the French monarchy.
She added: âThey appear to think that there is no problem with anything.â
As of Saturday night, French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said some 400 people were arrested nationwide over the previous 48 hours.
Nuñez said 110 marches drew about 550,000 people across the country. Organizers, including the CGT labor union and studentsâ organizations, said about 800,000 demonstrators took to the streets.
AP reports Nuñez described troublemakers as âextremely violent, radical far-left groupsâ whom, he said, âsought confrontations with police and targeted public buildings, including city halls and local government offices.â
He said those groups have been joined by offenders willing to loot shops. Most of those arrested are adults, he added.
The protests that started in France have spread to Italy, Albania and other countries as more groups have joined. Organizers have called for continued action through the end of the month.
The student unrest that began in France has crossed into Italy and Albania. In France, more than 6,500 people, most of them minors, had been arrested by October 7. In Belgium, rioters destroyed buses and fought police in Brussels. Now protesters in Milan and Tirana are throwing stones at police under the same banner of education and the cost of living.
Italyâs wave began on October 5, when students occupied high schools in Turin and Rome under the slogan âLetâs do as in France.â By October 15, dozens of schools were occupied from Milan to Naples. In Turin, about 40 masked youths raided three schools, and a 17-year-old was arrested after a carabiniere was injured. Torino Cronaca reported that a 20-year-old detained in Turin belonged to âSeconda generazione,â a collective whose members describe themselves as born and raised in Italy to migrant parents. It also reported that a minor arrested by carabinieri was not a student.
During the national âNo Meloni Dayâ strike on October 16, the left-wing collective Osa claimed 400,000 students marched nationwide. In Turin, protesters threw stones and bottles at police. The Questura reported three minors arrested for aggravated resistance, two of them carrying pepper spray and one carrying stones, and said more than 50 protesters had been identified. In Rome, hooded protesters threw firecrackers and paper bombs at the Education Ministry, and high school students burned U.S. and Israeli flags. Investigators are examining the involvement of organized antagonists from outside the student movement who allegedly provoked the clashes. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked the opposition to condemn the violence.
In Albania itself, thousands of student-led protesters clashed with riot police in Tirana for a third consecutive day on October 15, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Protesters threw rocks and bricks, smashed windows and set fires, including a blaze at the Education Ministry. Police responded with tear gas and water cannons. Demonstrations spread to other cities, and parliament canceled its session as violence erupted nearby. State Police Director General Skënder Hita said 71 officers had been injured in 72 hours, including the Shkodra police chief, who was seriously hurt and is now stable. The Health Ministry reported 89 injured, including 61 police officers, in the October 14 riots alone. Police reported 65 arrests by that point. The protests continued for a fourth day on October 16.
The students have joined the broader Flamingo movement, which began in opposition to a luxury coastal development linked to Jared Kushner, President Donald Trumpâs son-in-law. Reuters found no evidence of wrongdoing by Kushner. The protests have grown to include anger over alleged government corruption, education costs and poor job prospects. Rama told Reuters he would not resign and was ready to discuss education, adding that Albania is tackling corruption as never before and that he would not let violence derail its European future. On October 16, he blamed foreign hands, saying this was not a student phenomenon. The EU delegation in Tirana called for a proportionate response from authorities and described constructive dialogue as the only way forward.
The unrest has also reached Germany. On October 12, about 150 students barricaded the entrances of Berlinâs French Gymnasium with pallets and bicycle locks, and police pushed them back when they tried to block a third entrance. Police said they considered it a planned action, not a spontaneous one. On October 16, blockades spread to the Andreas Gymnasium and the Leibniz Gymnasium. According to police, about 50 students blocked the entrances at the Andreas Gymnasium, demanding more money for education and opposing military conscription. A second group of about 50 young people gathered behind the school, most of whom did not attend the school. The Tagesspiegel reported that left-wing activists from outside the school took part, some of them masked.
A 67-year-old resident was injured when she tried to stop youths from taking garbage bins from a waste area. Police detained a 17-year-old who was not a student at the school and opened investigations for breach of the peace, assault, attacks on officers and property damage. Berlinâs education senator criticized the protesters for instrumentalizing students. The German outlet NIUS reported that groups on social media are calling for nationwide riots on October 31.
The unrest is likely to expand. In Italy, Osa has announced it will join a general strike on October 30 and a European student strike on November 20.
Currently, my X feed is awash in images of the raging protests across Franceâthe collapsing Limoges town hall, the looted stores, the ascendant Palestinian flagsâeven as mainstream outlets just fold the news from France into their other stories of the day, just one report among many. This dichotomy makes it hard to tell whether whatâs happening is, as the media subliminally suggest, the French being French, as theyâve been periodically over the centuries, or whether weâre seeing the first domino fall, truly presaging the end of once-Christian Europe.
However, I saw one photo that was so stunning that Iâm inclined to believe the latter view of events, no matter how much the media suggest that France is simply having its version of our 2020 George Floyd summerâsomething disruptive, costly, and (for some) deadly, but really just a blip in the life of an otherwise viable country.
For me, this is the most horrifying image of this October 17:
An elderly couple stripped of everything, right in the middle of the street, left half-naked.
As if the pillaged Rolexes, Vuitton, HermĂšs, Dior, Sephora weren’t enough for resale.
The image that should be a wake-up call for the entire West.
The image of a so-called president who has lost control. Who has utterly failed his people.
The image of a radical left that has sacrificed your own identity to turn your country into a war zone, with cultural backdrops that have nothing to do with yours.
This image is terrifying!
Yes, this image is terrifying. Why? Because itâs about ritually humiliating the population.
While we civilized people may decry it, we all understand what could be termed âroutine mob violence,â whether itâs smashing windows, looting (inevitably), setting things on fire, even killing those caught in the mobâs frenzy, etc. (Please note: Understanding does not mean condoning.)
These are the acts of people in a destructive frenzy. Someone or something has activated their limbic system, and they have reverted to purely savage behavior. The point is destruction, with a little profit on the side if you find a nice store or house to loot. Morality, decency, humanity…all have been swept aside in the frenzy of mob-driven insanity.
But stripping ordinary people of their clothes…thatâs not mob madness. That is, instead, a very calculated act by which those in power ritually humiliate those whom they intend to destroy. The Nazis routinely did it to those whom they rounded up. Peopleâs clothes are their armor. Strip them of them, whether getting them fully naked or just down to their undergarments, and you have made them emotionally helpless. (Just look at how the Dems humiliated Roger Stone and his wife: No clothes and a conveniently nearby CNN news crew.)
And that gets me to a famous 1941 photo from Lviv (then in Poland; now, in Ukraine). It was taken when Nazis and the local antisemites joined together for the infamous Lviv pogrom. Look at this photo (content warning), and then look at the photo above, and tell me how different they are:
Public domain.
What happened in Lviv began with ritual humiliation; it ended with 4,000-8,000 Jews slaughtered in less than a month. Eventually, the Nazis slaughtered 99% of the Jewish population, which accounted for as much 45% of Lvivâs total population.
Islam and leftism are both conquest-based faiths. Both begin by using Western norms to lever themselves into a base for violence, and then they destroy the societies that incubated them. However, Muslims, wiser than the leftist foot soldiers in the mob, donât view leftists as their allies. They view them as their useful idiots.
Muslims spout leftist shibboleths while cautioning each other against making themselves impure by breeding with kafirs (unbelievers)âwhich is essentially what Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed effectively said, albeit cloaked in carefully scientific terms. In France, Muslims rode leftism to population density, used leftist values (school protests) to activate the mob, and then waved the real flag:
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Whether events in France are âmerelyâ scattered but violent protests across a large country, or the first domino falling across Western Europe, is just a matter of degree: the Muslims have staked their claim. Itâs not about schools. Itâs not about Israel. It is about civilizational conquest, and unless Macron does more than spout banal platitudes, Europeâs end is near.
Schools across the Italian province of Pordenone are set to strip beloved national dishes from their canteen menus, swapping them for alternatives such as chicken curry and couscous in a bid to cater to Muslim pupils.
The north-eastern province, situated in the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region, will see iconic staples including air-dried San Daniele prosciutto, porchetta and pasta all’amatriciana – a classic recipe built around pork jowl – removed from school canteens.
Supporters of the initiative argue it is a sensible and inclusive step, given that a significant share of the pupil population cannot consume pork on religious grounds.
Critics, however, have reacted with fury, insisting that accommodating Italy’s increasingly diverse demographics should not come at the cost of the nation’s culinary heritage.
Children from migrant backgrounds account for 21 per cent of Pordenone’s school population – nearly twice the national figure of 11 per cent.
In the majority of affected schools, pork products will be eliminated from menus entirely. A smaller number of institutions will continue to make them available upon request.
Regional dietary guidelines in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, which is governed by a centre-right administration, already recommend prioritising white meat over red. Beef remains on the menu.
Marco Dreosto of the conservative League Party declared: “Respect for other cultures and religions cannot and must not mean giving up our traditions.”
Three of the League’s European Parliament representatives – Anna Maria Cisint, Silvia Sardone and Susanna Ceccardi – branded the decision to replace pork on school menus as “absurd.”
Emanuele Loperfido, the Pordenone chief of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, struck a similar chord: “It is right to promote coexistence, but it cannot be at the expense of our cuisine.”
Gianangelo Bof of Futuro Nazionale – a fledgling party established by a retired special forces general – was equally blunt: “You can’t get rid of pork at the lunch table for Italian children just so as not to cause offence.”
However, Fausto Tomasello of the centre-left Democratic Party offered a rather different framing: “The first concern of everyone should be making sure that our kids eat healthy food.”
Pordenone’s mayor, Alessandro Basso, acknowledged local food traditions ought to be maintained wherever feasible, but stressed the importance of providing “alternative dishes so as to respect different religious beliefs.”
The school meals controversy arrives amid a broader political reckoning over immigration and integration.
Last month, Ms Meloni’s government enacted a decree imposing a 30 per cent ceiling on pupils with limited Italian language proficiency in any single classroom – a measure affecting roughly 1,000 classrooms, or 0.3 per cent of the national total.
The same decree outlawed the wearing of burqas and niqabs in schools, with parents facing fines of up to âŹ1,000 (ÂŁ870) for breaches.
Ms Meloni characterised the package on social media as “common-sense measures that do not divide but help foster genuine integration, avoiding ‘ghetto’ classrooms and giving all students equal opportunities.”
Opposition parties accused the ruling coalition of exploiting immigration as a political weapon ahead of a general election that must be held within the coming year.
The Islamo-Marxist riots in France have completely exploded after weeks of mayhem and are threatening President Emmanuel Macronâs home.
As The Daily Mail reported, thousands of violent protesters overturned cars, set buildings ablaze, and attacked police across the country.
The worst violence arguably occurred in Lyon. There, a tourist office and cars were set on fire by rioters.
Franceâs interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, also added that looting by the red-green rioters was recorded in many cities. These cities included Paris, Rouen, Nantes, Toulouse, and Marseille.
Several videos have emerged showing just how ugly the scenes were.
NEW: Video & photos provided to @FoxNews via @GraceCarnathan, who is in Paris right now, give a look at the ongoing riots there, with fires burning in multiple areas of the city. One mob shown with Soviet Union & pro-Communist flags. pic.twitter.com/1q3ertO4q8
Now, one of the most historic structures in the entire country, the 143-year-old Limoges town hall, has now burned to the ground as the police continue to sit on their hands.
đš BREAKING: France's historic Limoges town hall (143 years old) COLLAPSES after leftist-Islamist aligned rioters set it on fire, and POLICE DO NOTHING
Despite all of this, Nuñez says that they will NOT declare a state of emergency.
This is a result of failed previous efforts by authorities to shut down the riots.
In one instance, in Marseille, France, on October 2, a hooded 15-year-old burned a womanâs face with an aerosol can and a lighter at Place du 4-Septembre. She had tried to stop protesters from vandalizing a bus shelter.
Police arrested the teenager that evening in the Frais-Vallon district after identifying him through video surveillance.
He was charged with voluntary violence with three aggravating circumstances: using a weapon, acting as part of a group, and concealing his face. The prosecutor said, âNo demand of any kind could justify such acts of violence.â
The left-wing UK government is reportedly planning to introduce an internet tax to prop up the financially struggling BBC public broadcaster.
Currently, everyone who watches broadcast television in Britain must pay the government an ÂŁ180 ($239) annual licence fee, whether they watch the BBC or not. The fee was originally used to fund the BBCâs radio broadcasts, but was later expanded to incorporate TV following the Second World War. Now, amid the rise of streaming services, the left-wing Labour Party government is said to be planning on extending the effective tax to the internet.
According to The Independent, which cited a Whitehall source, plans to change the BBCâs charter will be made public before Christmas, with the present agreement set to expire in December of next year.
The source said the so-called âYouTube taxâ will be imposed on internet-based video platforms to stop people from avoiding the television licence fee by watching content on computers, phones, or tablets. This comes as about two million people have stopped paying the BBC television licence fee over the past five years, and 539,000 over the past year, up to April.
If the government imposed an internet fee, an estimated three to four million more people would likely be on the hook to fund the BBC. Yet this would still likely be insufficient to meet the broadcasterâs budget shortfalls.
Nevertheless, the civil service source told the Independent that the additional money could be spent countering âconspiracy theories and fake newsâ that they claimed helped Nigel Farageâs Reform UK party rise in working-class regions of Britain.
This negative attitude by the civil service and the BBC towards Reform may reflect the partyâs vow to abolish the BBC licence fee altogether and force the broadcaster to compete on an even footing with private media.
Although the BBCâs charter mandates that it provide the public with bias-free news coverage, it has long faced accusations of skewing its coverage against the populist right and, indeed, the socialist left.
This was particularly true during the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union, when a report from the News Watch think tank found that BBC Radio 4âs coverage showed clear bias.
âThere were no attempts in any programme to explore the benefits of leaving the EU, but conversely, Brexit came under sustained negative attack,â the report found.
Another report from Civitas found that in the decade leading up to the referendum, only three per cent of guests on Radio 4âs flagship Today programme were pro-Brexit. The report also noted that the public broadcaster often failed to platform pro-Brexit voices from the left, giving the public the impression that the issue was only a priority for the right.
Meanwhile, a study commissioned earlier this year by the head of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Lisa Nandy, found that 70 per cent of Britons believe the BBC is out of step with modern British society and needs to change.
In addition to reportedly planning an internet tax to fund the broadcaster, BBC director-general Matt Brittain has suggested farming out BBC content to existing streaming services, rather than limiting it to BBC iPlayer.
A BBC spokesman said: âWe have consistently argued that the current funding model is outdated and needs reform. We will continue to engage with government to secure a new charter that provides sustainable, sufficient and universal funding so the BBC can deliver for audiences for generations to come.â
A DCMS spokesman added: âThe BBC must be funded by a model that is sustainable and fair to all those that are paying it. Through Charter Review, we are looking at a range of options, including how the licence fee could be reformed, but no final decisions have been made.â
âI love my country. I LOVE ALL FOREIGNERS WHO LOVE MY COUNTRY and who want to integrate.
