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Amid "Benalla Affair," French Police Working With Private Alt-Right Militias Against Refugees

While the “Benalla Affair” has dominated French public discussion since July, the country’s police force’s mingling with private militias has not stopped there, as border police have supported ultra-right gangs in violent actions against refugees, according to information gathered from solidarity networks in the area. Although Emmanuel Macron was elected primarily due to a desire to defeat Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, under his rule the police have stepped up cooperation with extra-legal “thugs.” MediaPart, a French socialist website, noted that “because the police are happy to have reinforcement…..they know how to find allies.” These allies can be both ideological or purely practical. In the case of the Benalla Affair, the official police and private militias effectively merged. In a parliamentary session, the Interior Minister, Gérard Collomb, essentially admitted that there had been cooperation due to the alleged threat posed by the Black Bloc and ot...

From Salvini To Seehofer To Sajid, Are Interior Ministers Europe's New Bosses?

It has been obvious to most media from the beginning that Giuseppe Conte, no matter how many handshakes he makes with Trump or summit meetings he attends, is not the true boss of Italy: that designation belongs to arch-racist and Mussolini-quoting Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. The focus on the reason behind this – the leaders of Lega and 5 Star both wanted to be Premier and couldn’t agree on who deserved the title – misses an important and worrying shift in European politics: Increasingly, interior ministers are becoming the political figures with the most popularity, and often, the most power. Take Germany. Angela Merkel, who has been Chancellor of Germany for thirteen years, is increasingly looking like a lame duck, whose mandate could be cut short at any time by Horst Seehofer, a virulently anti-Muslim and anti-refugee figure with a penchant for hostility towards left-wing street activists combined with tolerance for legitimate fascists in his police work. Herbert...

The Tocsin 7/24

Europe Places Monetary Value On Africans As Plan To Pay Member States 6000 Euros Per Refugee Gains Traction Report Shows Growing Threats To Eco Activists And Land Defenders Globally By State And Corporate Goons Reflecting On The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, Ten Years Later Greek Wildfires Kill 74+ People Amid Climate Crisis As Migrants, Anarchists Help Rescue Efforts Also, The Arctic Circle Is Currently On Fire. (Voracious Consumption) x (Rising Population) = Planetary Crisis As Wildfires Rage and Heat Records Broken Worldwide, Corporate Media Urged to Cover Human Responsibility For Extreme Weather #AffaireBenalla: Macron Admits Role As 80% Of Public Expresses Outrage, No-Confidence Motion Tabled In Crisis Macron's Monarchal Worldview Means He Sees Any Protestors As Unruly Subjects Melenchon Defends CRS Riot Police Even As Students And Unionists Slam Violence Alexandre Benalla: Henchman At Centre Of French Watergate Tony Blair Institute Working ...

The Tocsin 7/23

#AffaireBenalla: Macron Roiled In Huge Political Crisis As Private Thug - CRS Links Hinted Government Covers For Macron And CRS Violence As Scandal Foments The Unholy Alliance Between The Liberal President And The Vichy-Derived CRS ICE Has Conducted Hundreds Of Raids In New York Since Trump Came To Power. Here’s What Those Operations Look Like. Feminists Must Fight Against ICE Racist Rape Culture And Fascism Migrant Kids In Detention Centres Are Being Drugged, Told Not To Hug, Forced To Bathe In Sinks Just 34 Democrats Vote Against House Resolution Hailing ICE Thugs Massive Viral Hate Against Immigrant Children In US By Far Right, Even Far From Border Trump May Now Begin Deporting People Already Granted US Citizenship Given What The US Has Done To The World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In Switzerland: Refugees' Rights Activists Place Signs Highlighting Brutality Of Euro Capitalist Policy Deaths At Sea Expose Flaws Of Italy-Libya Migration Pact Confin...

The Tocsin 7/19

EXPOSED: French President Macron's Security Aide Beat Up Students On May Day, Revelation Unleashes Mass Outrage Emails Show Wider Repression Network Among Macron Staff.... Macron's Privatised Stomping & Beating Of Protestors Is, Without A Doubt, Liberal Fascism France: Left-Wing Eco Activists Squats Attacked By Arsonists. Wonder Who? Environmentalists Against The Mariner East 2 Pipeline- A Series Of New Standing Rocks Anti-Pipeline Podcast: Stopping The Mountain Valley Pipeline Zapatistas Fighting NAFTA Once Again - Will Round Two Lead To Victory? Subvertisers Replace Commercial Filth With Solidarity Art For Green Rojava Eric Hazen - The Publisher Propelling The Ideas Of The French Left Today Podcast: "Literal Communist" Debates "Literal Capitalist" Bibi Law Codifies Israeli Apartheid As Arab Lawmakers Kicked Out Of Parliament Amid Jeers Zionist Entity Shores Up Ties To Far-Right In Europe Including Alternative For Germany...

The Tocsin 7/6

Trump Administration Drops All Charges Against #J20 Inauguration Day Protestors #Nantes: French Youth In Revolt As Riots Escalate Over Police Shooting Over 100 Cars Burnt As Centrist Politicians Fret Over Spread Of Unrest.... CRS Officer Who Shot Young Person Changes His Story Amid Mass Anger President Macron Disapproval Ratings Rocket To 64%, Just 32% In Favour Latest From The Ongoing Revolt [CLICK HERE] #MeltICE: Cops Brutally Attack Atlanta Anti-ICE Protest, Drag Black Man Across The Pavement #OccupyICE Philadelphia: A Reflection On The Failures And Successes Of The Camp And The Treachery Of The "Red Liberals"  A Map Of The Current/Ongoing Occupations Of ICE Facilities Some Texts From Those Who Desire Anarchy, Chaos & The End Of Law And Order Belarus: Left-Wing And Anarchist Activists Face Repression For Meeting Together In A Forest Switzerland: Socialist And Feminist Groups Manifest For Asylum Seekers In Lucerne EXPOSED: France'...