France plans to reclaim the no-go zones
1 Comments Published by Avi Green on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 9:02 AM.
There may be a positive sign turning up in France, as Soeren Kern at Gatestone Institute (via Europe News and The Jawa Report) reports on what the government of Francois Hollande is working on:
The French government has announced a plan to boost policing in 15 of the most crime-ridden parts of France in an effort to reassert state control over the country's so-called "no-go" zones: Muslim-dominated neighborhoods that are largely off limits to non-Muslims.If they really do get to work on this, it'll certainly be something to credit them for, but it'll also go to show the serious problem conservatives have of inability to stand firm on a policy if they wish to do the same and not cave to leftist hostility on these issues. That's a serious weakness that the right is going to have to start working to prove they can overcome.
The crime-infested districts, which the French Interior Ministry has designated as Priority Security Zones (zones de sécurité prioritaires, or ZSP), include heavily Muslim parts of Paris, Marseilles, Strasbourg, Lille and Amiens, where Muslim youths recently went on a two-day arson rampage that caused extensive property damage and injured more than a dozen police officers.
The crackdown on lawlessness in the ZSP is set to begin in September, when French Interior Minister Manuel Valls plans to deploy riot police, detectives and intelligence agents into the selected areas. The hope is that a "North American-style" war on crime can prevent France's impoverished suburbs from descending into turmoil.
I wonder how serious they will really be with this.