WHY IS FRANCE BURNING?

DIRELAND

As someone who lived in France for nearly a decade, and who has visited those suburban ghettos, where the violence started, on reporting trips any number of times, French_riots I have not been surprised by this tsunami of inchoate youth rebellion that is engulfing France. It is the result of thirty years of government neglect: of the failure of the French political classes -- of both right and left -- to make any serious effort to integrate its Muslim and black populations into the larger French economy and culture; and of the deep-seated, searing, soul-destroying racism that the unemployed and profoundly alienated young of the ghettos face every day of their lives, both from the police, and when trying to find a job or decent housing.

Ireland gives a comprehensive history of immigration in France and asserts that the rioters are French in nationality, largely 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants from Northern Africa. Since there were born in France, they are French citizens.