Rebel News Podcast - July 04, 2023


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Exploring the divide： France's riots unveil deep ethnic tensions


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

136.28719

Word Count

4,619

Sentence Count

437

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

In the wake of the death of an Algerian-born French police officer, the city of Marseilles has been rocked by riots since the shooting of a 17-year-old Muslim-born man of North African descent by French police.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I'm in France. What the heck is going on here?
00:00:02.860 It's July 4th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:05.500 You're fighting for freedom!
00:00:08.340 Shame on you, you censorious bug!
00:00:20.240 I'm recording this on Sunday, even though it'll be aired on Tuesday.
00:00:26.300 I have come to France. I'm in the city of Marseille.
00:00:30.000 On the Mediterranean coast, beautiful city.
00:00:32.780 I first fell in love with the city through the Netflix show by the name Marseille,
00:00:37.940 starring Gérard Depardieu.
00:00:40.420 He's a great French actor, but really the star of the show was the city,
00:00:44.180 and I've never been here until today.
00:00:46.480 I came here not for tourism and not for other happy reasons either.
00:00:50.680 I came here because Marseille is one of the cities that has been rocked by riots in recent days
00:00:57.440 after the killing by police of a 17-year-old Algerian man of Muslim descent.
00:01:05.480 It's unsure whether or not he himself was born in France.
00:01:08.900 There's a terrible video of the encounter he had with police.
00:01:13.920 These days, everything is on video, isn't it?
00:01:16.720 He was driving a Mercedes. It wasn't stolen, but apparently he didn't have the right paperwork for it.
00:01:22.520 He had had several encounters with police.
00:01:24.960 In fact, quite a number.
00:01:26.300 He had charges from just a week earlier, and the police accosted him, and they shot him.
00:01:34.240 People across France saw that video, and it was simply proof for so many French people of Muslim descent
00:01:42.920 and North African descent that, in fact, the system was racist, the police especially.
00:01:47.720 Riots broke out in Paris and across France and even in neighboring Belgium.
00:01:51.700 More than 1,300 people have been arrested in those riots.
00:01:56.260 Average age, 17, were here on Sunday night, the day after that young man was buried.
00:02:04.280 Obviously, the police presence behind me, I don't know if you can quite make them up,
00:02:07.800 but those vans are all police vans.
00:02:10.480 Inside them are riot police.
00:02:12.760 You can see some of them wearing their exoskeletons on their body.
00:02:16.760 They're not yet wearing their helmets, and some of them have guns on their holsters
00:02:23.000 but are not yet holding more serious weapons.
00:02:26.820 So I don't know how the night is going to end.
00:02:28.620 We've actually only been here a few hours, but here's what I've seen.
00:02:31.720 The first thing I've seen is that there are two Frances, or at least in this city, two Marseilles.
00:02:37.480 There's the one you think you know, the beautiful history and architecture,
00:02:42.840 the rich French culture, language, art, architecture,
00:02:49.580 the beautiful port full of yachts, the tourist dream of France.
00:02:56.200 And then you have a different France, and in Marseilles, it's, I don't know,
00:03:00.160 about 30% of the population, depends on the neighborhood you're in.
00:03:02.840 And it could be 40%, 50%, or even 60%.
00:03:05.340 Just a few blocks away from the beautiful old port
00:03:09.440 are neighborhoods that are completely immigrant or descended from immigrants
00:03:15.280 where the language on the street that you hear is not French.
00:03:18.560 It's Arabic or another language that, you know, you might not understand.
00:03:26.060 It's a separate kind of France.
00:03:28.720 Now, I spoke with some of these people.
00:03:33.240 I was waiting for the night to fall to see if there would be any dramatic action.
00:03:37.620 And I just went up to some of them on the various cafes.
00:03:40.680 That French tradition of sitting on a cafe outside a coffee shop
00:03:44.500 into summer's evening is a beautiful tradition.
00:03:47.880 Again, in Paris, you may know it as where women come in their high fashion
00:03:51.980 and men go in their fashion, and maybe it's romantic.
00:03:55.280 And there's some of that here in Marseille, to be sure, right down by the old port.
00:04:01.080 But a couple of blocks away, and as you're starting to get,
00:04:04.380 I mean, like I'm just looking at some shops right here.
00:04:06.540 You have Babylon Palace.
00:04:08.560 It's Iraqi food.
00:04:09.780 You have Turkish patisserie.
00:04:12.380 So many of these different coffee shops are Tunisian or Algerian or Moroccan or Turkish or whatever.
00:04:22.760 As you get more and more into the Muslim neighborhood, you'll notice a demographic change.
00:04:29.180 Some of these patios will have 30, 40 people sitting out in front of them without a single woman there.
00:04:35.420 So on the outward face of it, it may look just like France has always looked.
00:04:43.120 Oh, look at that.
00:04:43.620 People sitting in the gorgeous weather having a coffee and a croissant.
00:04:47.160 But if you look a little bit more carefully, you'll notice that in many of them, there are no women.
00:04:52.200 And there's a few of them that are more restaurants than coffee shops.
00:04:56.400 Any women who are there are in a bias.
00:04:58.200 Now, that's not 100% the case.
00:04:59.560 There are still some women, often tourists, who are dressed, I guess, in the eyes of Sharia law, immodestly.
00:05:07.120 But the demographic trend is clear which way the city is going.
00:05:11.560 And I mention that because I've talked to a number of these men.
00:05:14.920 And, you know, they use different language.
00:05:17.280 But they said that that divide, the racist divide against them, is what motivates their revolt.
00:05:24.600 They use the phrase assassination for how the police treated the 17-year-old man who was killed.
00:05:32.200 And instead of using the word riot, they use the word revolt.
00:05:35.320 And it is a revolt in a way.
00:05:37.540 But it's also quite something when you torch a neighborhood.
00:05:42.840 The neighborhood isn't racist.
00:05:44.540 A building isn't racist.
00:05:45.680 A pharmacy, a grocery store.
00:05:48.060 It has that anarchy feeling to it that the United States had with the series of Black Lives Matter riots in 2016.
00:05:56.720 And these riots smack of an ethnic divide.
00:06:01.740 It's only Sunday late afternoon.
00:06:04.160 It's not even nightfall yet.
00:06:05.240 So we don't know if the riots are going to continue.
00:06:08.100 But in the rest of today's show, I'm going to show you some of my interviews with these Muslim men.
00:06:14.720 You know, no Muslim woman would speak with me.
00:06:16.700 I don't know if they're allowed to even.
00:06:20.220 Some of them put their best foot forward and said, look, France is not essentially racist.
00:06:25.520 There's pockets of racism everywhere.
00:06:27.340 We all have it in our hearts.
00:06:28.540 But we love France.
00:06:29.500 It's a great place to be.
00:06:30.340 I heard some really refreshing comments like that.
00:06:33.200 But in my absolutely atrocious French, I asked some of them, in your heart, are you an Algerian first or a Frenchman first?
00:06:39.760 And almost all of them said Algerian first.
00:06:42.060 And I said to some of them in my atrocious French, I said, how can you say that the French don't include you on equal terms when you yourself do not identify or express yourself as a Frenchman?
00:06:54.200 If you say you're an Algerian first, how can you then have the same at the same time a complaint that the old stock French don't regard you as true French?
00:07:05.820 There were some interesting comments I heard, and we'll have translations on the screen.
00:07:13.900 But I was having a wonderful time in this wonderful city, and I was enjoying my conversations with people from the Muslim community.
00:07:21.480 When one man came up to us who had spoken very vigorously to us earlier about how he was a Muslim first and a French person second,
00:07:31.640 and he extremely aggressively demanded that we delete the footage.
00:07:37.400 And he was physically putting his hands on our equipment, threatening to call police, even though he said he was worried about police.
00:07:46.240 It was a very spooky situation.
00:07:51.860 We were about three blocks away from where I'm standing now, and although there's a ton of police behind me, three blocks away, there wasn't a cop in sight.
00:08:00.520 And had this man wished to do violence to us, he absolutely could have.
00:08:04.440 Had he shouted something in Arabic that I wouldn't have understood that would have motivated others to come and pummel me, I'm sure he could have.
00:08:12.280 In the end, he did not, but in that moment, I got a feeling for the differences here.
00:08:19.560 There's not a commonality.
00:08:21.360 I was otherized in that moment as they themselves felt they had been othered.
00:08:26.600 There is not a cohesion in France.
00:08:28.740 I'm not the first to say it, but there are two Frances.
00:08:32.900 And those are the two Frances that have been clashing over the last five days.
00:08:39.540 I'll show you different things in today's show.
00:08:43.380 I hope you enjoy it.
00:08:45.140 I came here really with an open mind to follow the facts wherever they lead.
00:08:48.920 And I hope in the days ahead that I'll be able to do that.
00:08:52.160 Stay with us.
00:08:53.660 More ahead.
00:09:03.540 Excusez-moi pour mon français.
00:09:04.980 Mon français est terrible.
00:09:08.100 Merci.
00:09:08.500 De quel pays est-ce que né ici, à France, ou à un autre pays ?
00:09:17.620 Je suis né en France.
00:09:19.500 J'habite dans les quartiers nord.
00:09:21.720 Et je côtoie beaucoup le centre-ville aussi.
00:09:24.740 Et je suis très, très affecté par la situation qu'on a actuellement sur Marseille et en France.
00:09:32.060 Et par rapport au contexte qu'il y a eu, de l'assassinat, qu'on peut tout à fait qualifier d'assassinat.
00:09:39.460 Est-ce qu'il y a une différence entre Paris et Marseille ?
00:09:48.580 Écoutez, apparemment, Marseille se sont réveillés un peu plus tard que Paris.
00:09:56.660 Mais moi qui côtoie pas mal l'environnement sur Marseille, le nord, le sud, en fait, ils ont été beaucoup affectés par cet assassinat.
00:10:07.900 Et beaucoup de personnes se sont reconnues à travers cet assassinat dans nos quartiers, dans nos cités.
00:10:19.840 Et c'est vrai qu'aujourd'hui, on ne comprend pas pourquoi ces attaques, ce, comment dire ça, la révolte.
00:10:38.600 Vous dites révolte, les autres disent émute.
00:10:46.540 Supportez-vous la révolte ?
00:10:49.140 J'ai compris ce que vous voulez dire.
00:10:50.680 En fait, moi, je qualifierais pas ce mouvement comme une émeute, mais plutôt comme une révolte.
00:10:57.640 Et puis, il y a des personnes qui se servent de cette révolte pour endommager les petits magasins
00:11:04.580 qui, eux aussi, souffrent de cette révolte.
00:11:10.140 Mais moi, je qualifie cette révolte parce qu'en réalité, la source, le démarrage de tous ces casses et tout ce mouvement-là,
00:11:22.820 il vient initialement par rapport à une injustice qu'en Marseille et en France vivent nous, les Français issus de l'étranger.
00:11:32.880 Parce qu'à l'heure d'aujourd'hui, on ne veut pas nous qualifier de Français parce qu'on a des origines maghrébines, on a des origines africaines.
00:11:42.920 Et la France, à l'heure d'aujourd'hui, ne nous accepte pas en tant que telles.
00:11:50.620 Et on le voit à travers les inégalités, les discriminations et, on va dire aussi, les assassinats ou les bavures policières.
00:12:01.920 Président Macron et les autres politiciens, est-ce qu'ils écoutent les musulmans ?
00:12:12.920 Est-ce qu'ils sont les amis des musulmans ?
00:12:17.400 J'ai compris ce que vous voulez dire. Le président Macron, lui, s'est ni, ni.
00:12:22.300 On ne sait pas si réellement il soutient la police ou s'il soutient la maman de Naël et cette injustice qu'a subie cette famille.
00:12:39.200 On ne sait pas. Tout ce qu'on sait, c'est qu'il y a une révolte qui s'est levée.
00:12:49.760 Et en réalité, cette injustice qu'a subie la famille de Naël, c'est plus une sorte de ressenti que chacun de nous a subie.
00:13:08.100 Un ressenti d'injustice a subie à travers cette histoire ?
00:13:12.000 Franchement, tout ce qui se passe ici, c'est par rapport à l'État.
00:13:15.980 Tout ça, c'est la faute des policiers, c'est la faute de l'État.
00:13:19.460 Parce qu'ici en France, il y a trop de racisme.
00:13:21.760 Le racisme, il est au premier degré ici en France.
00:13:24.880 C'est tout ce que j'ai à dire. C'est tout.
00:13:28.540 Pourquoi millions de musulmans immigrent à France si France est raciste ?
00:13:37.100 Eh bien, ils nous ont colonisé 132 ans.
00:13:40.300 Et là, c'est notre tour de venir ici pour, comment t'expliquer là ?
00:13:45.560 Pour, je ne sais pas, trouver les mots.
00:13:49.440 Ils nous ont colonisé 132 ans.
00:13:51.460 Et maintenant, on va les coloniser à vie, jusqu'à la mort.
00:13:54.340 Jusqu'à la fin des temps.
00:13:55.100 C'est simple.
00:13:57.260 Est-ce qu'il y a une solution ?
00:13:59.560 Comment allons-nous à payer, à victoire, à une solution à la justice ?
00:14:12.300 Comment ? Comment ?
00:14:13.400 Ici en France, s'il n'y a pas de justice, il n'y a pas de justice.
00:14:17.440 Il ne va pas y avoir de justice.
00:14:19.220 Tant qu'ils sont racistes, il n'y aura pas de justice.
00:14:22.160 Tant qu'il y a le racisme, il n'y aura pas de justice.
00:14:25.060 Il faut avoir l'égalité entre les gens.
00:14:29.020 Il faut avoir l'égalité.
00:14:30.720 Il faut respecter les religions.
00:14:31.960 Il faut respecter surtout les musulmans.
00:14:33.880 Parce que les musulmans ne sont pas respectés ici.
00:14:36.020 Ils nous voient comme des terroristes.
00:14:38.340 On n'est pas des terroristes.
00:14:39.880 Voulez-vous condamner les jeunes musulmans qui révoltent à violence ?
00:14:49.680 Je condamne personne.
00:14:51.580 Chacun est responsable de ses actes.
00:14:54.500 C'est tout.
00:14:55.000 Je condamne personne.
00:14:56.260 Chacun est responsable de ses actes.
00:14:58.140 Avez-vous un message pour le président Macron ?
00:15:03.060 Je n'ai pas de message pour Macron.
00:15:05.260 J'ai un seul message.
00:15:06.040 C'est que l'islam, c'est une religion de paix.
00:15:09.480 Point barre.
00:15:10.180 C'est bon.
00:15:11.600 Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse.
00:15:14.140 Thank you very much.
00:15:16.940 I appreciate that.
00:15:18.680 What's your name, your first name ?
00:15:20.240 Mohamed, comme le prophète, aleyhissalatou salam.
00:15:23.080 Et votre famille a immigré à France ?
00:15:28.260 Ma famille vit en Algérie.
00:15:31.560 Merci.
00:15:32.280 Ils vivent en Algérie.
00:15:33.560 Ils vivent en Algérie.
00:15:34.280 Dans votre cœur, êtes-vous Algérie ou Français à première ?
00:15:44.380 Vive l'Algérie, jusqu'à la mort.
00:15:46.060 T'aïa le Jézaïr.
00:15:47.720 T'aïa le Jézaïr.
00:15:48.600 T'aïa le Jézaïr.
00:15:49.340 Mais messieurs, si vous nous dites que je suis un Français numéro un, est-ce que vous êtes raciste ?
00:16:03.660 On n'est pas raciste.
00:16:05.080 J'ai dit et je le répète, T'aïa le Jézaïr, le monde appartient à tout le monde.
00:16:09.860 Chaque être humain peut vivre là où il veut.
00:16:13.140 Il n'y a pas de problème sur ça.
00:16:16.080 On vit là où on veut.
00:16:17.500 La terre appartient au bon Dieu.
00:16:19.320 Et nous, on appartient au bon Dieu.
00:16:20.840 On vit là où on veut.
00:16:22.220 Il n'y a pas de limite.
00:16:23.160 C'est bon.
00:16:23.700 T'aïa le Jézaïr.
00:16:24.400 Tu m'as donné beaucoup à penser.
00:16:25.820 Merci.
00:16:26.560 Bonne nuit, tout le monde.
00:16:27.860 Je parle français.
00:16:28.820 Alors, je vais vous dire quelque chose.
00:16:30.680 Mon fils, il porte le maillot de l'équipe de France.
00:16:32.820 Il est français.
00:16:34.300 Nous, ce qui vient de se passer là, c'est honteux par rapport à la France parce qu'il y a trop de discrimination raciale.
00:16:40.540 Il y a trop de discrimination.
00:16:42.060 Il y a trop « toi tu es noir, toi tu es blanc, toi tu es gris ».
00:16:44.320 D'accord ?
00:16:45.040 La France, elle était en otage à l'époque avec les Allemands.
00:16:48.940 Donc, il n'y avait pas de casernes militaires.
00:16:50.900 Les casernes militaires, elles étaient en Tunisie et en Algérie.
00:16:53.960 C'est un peuple qui a sauvé autrefois la France.
00:16:56.640 Est-ce que votre fille ?
00:16:59.860 Bien sûr, il est français, je suis français.
00:17:01.560 Elle est née en français ?
00:17:03.760 Bien sûr.
00:17:04.520 Et dans votre cœur, vous êtes…
00:17:08.220 D'origine tunisienne, bien sûr.
00:17:10.100 Et votre fille ?
00:17:11.260 Il est français tunisien, elle est comme papa.
00:17:12.880 On a des origines comme vous.
00:17:13.920 Vous êtes peut-être anglais, d'origine anglaise.
00:17:16.240 Alors, nous, on n'a pas de haine.
00:17:19.460 On condamne le crime contre l'humanité, que ce soit en Palestine ou que ce soit en France ou que ce soit.
00:17:25.420 Il faut faire arrêter l'humiliation.
00:17:29.720 C'est-à-dire, vous, « ah, tu es gris, tu es ça, tout le monde a le même cerveau ».
00:17:33.480 Voulez-vous condamner les jeunes Tunisiens ou Allemands qui émeutent ?
00:17:40.140 Bien sûr, bien sûr.
00:17:41.560 Je ne suis pas d'accord.
00:17:42.260 Je veux acheter quelque chose, je vais au magasin, je l'achète.
00:17:45.280 Je ne vole pas.
00:17:46.360 Le vol, ce n'est pas bon.
00:17:48.020 Il y a des gens qui se lèvent le matin, ils payent les impôts, ils payent les loyers, ils achètent la marchandise pour la revendre.
00:17:53.900 Je ne pense pas que les voleurs…
00:17:55.720 Moi, je ne suis pas d'accord avec les voleurs, ni les casseurs d'ailleurs.
00:17:58.520 Il ne faut pas profiter d'un malheur d'un enfant qui est parti pour voler les magasins.
00:18:03.440 Je ne suis pas d'accord.
00:18:04.120 Une autre question, qu'est-ce que votre nom ?
00:18:07.580 Comment t'appelles-tu ?
00:18:09.800 Comment t'appelles-tu ?
00:18:10.520 Je m'appelle Khaled, pourquoi ?
00:18:12.380 Khaled ?
00:18:13.640 Khaled, oui.
00:18:15.000 Merci.
00:18:15.660 Après, voilà, il faut que la France arrête le racisme.
00:18:20.000 Le racisme à la télé, c'est trop.
00:18:22.980 Il discrimine trop la race musulmane.
00:18:25.640 La femme voilée, elle aussi, laissez les gens vivre comme ils veulent.
00:18:29.420 Voilà, c'est tout ce que j'ai à dire.
00:18:30.400 Merci.
00:18:31.280 Au revoir.
00:18:31.660 Merci.
00:18:34.180 What's your name ?
00:18:35.120 My name is Larbi.
00:18:36.640 Larbi, thank you.
00:18:38.440 We're from Canada, and we're here in Marseille to find out what's going on,
00:18:42.720 and to try and understand a little bit better the events of the last few days,
00:18:46.680 since the shooting of NAL.
00:18:49.000 Can you share with me your thoughts on it ?
00:18:51.860 Well, what happened just happened.
00:18:54.160 We wish that these guys who are doing manifestation to stop doing what they are doing.
00:18:59.440 What happened just happened again.
00:19:03.020 We don't want to end up with things to go further than this.
00:19:08.700 We are waiting for the justice to say their end,
00:19:13.580 and to say something about it, and to do the right thing.
00:19:17.160 This is what we wish for.
00:19:19.220 And I think I can't go further than this.
00:19:23.000 Oh, fair enough.
00:19:23.620 I've spoken to some people so far, and they tell me they feel a pervasive racism,
00:19:34.620 that it's everywhere, it's in the police, it's in the political system,
00:19:39.260 and they really believe that in their hearts.
00:19:42.900 They feel the pain of racism.
00:19:46.220 Do you think that France is systemically racist?
00:19:49.920 I don't doubt that there are individuals who are racist,
00:19:52.720 but do you think that France as a country is racist?
00:19:55.660 Look, everywhere, everywhere in the world, you might find people who might have that feeling
00:20:01.180 that immigrants come to their country, and they do stuff, and they do things.
00:20:06.480 But I believe that this is a very small group who might have this feeling,
00:20:11.520 and they did what they just have done with that guy.
00:20:16.280 And this is not for everyone.
00:20:19.680 This is only a small group of people who have made an influence to the others.
00:20:24.700 Now it went to the media, and people start saying that France is racist,
00:20:28.780 and I don't believe this.
00:20:30.000 I don't believe this.
00:20:31.840 What country did your family originally come from?
00:20:35.840 I'm coming from Dubai, but originally I am Algerian.
00:20:40.240 Yeah.
00:20:41.080 Can I ask you one more question?
00:20:42.600 And you don't have to answer it if you don't want to,
00:20:44.260 but I asked it to a couple of guys earlier just to see what they thought.
00:20:48.460 I said, in your heart, do you regard yourself as French first or Algerian first or Muslim first?
00:20:56.100 I got different answers from different people.
00:20:58.000 You don't have to answer that if you don't want,
00:20:59.420 but I think it's an interesting question.
00:21:01.860 What's your name?
00:21:02.900 What's your name?
00:21:03.860 Boubacar.
00:21:08.700 Je peux parler en français.
00:21:11.760 Moi, moi, moi.
00:21:12.360 Okay.
00:21:12.680 Okay.
00:21:13.180 Okay.
00:21:13.920 All the world, without exception,
00:21:17.820 love France for all the values it represents
00:21:22.020 and for everything it offers as an opportunity.
00:21:28.020 There are opportunities for all.
00:21:33.680 For all.
00:21:34.080 looking at picking understand.
00:21:36.360 I believe that this strange thing is you can't forget about it,
00:21:38.420 but the people in the police and in all the domains there are some people who hate the strangers.
00:21:51.660 The strangers.
00:21:55.840 But,
00:21:56.500 But all of us love France. It's not secret.
00:22:04.500 But when we have cases like that, you have a feeling of revenge.
00:22:11.500 Everyone wants to say that it's just a fierté.
00:22:15.500 It's just a fierté mal placé.
00:22:17.500 But in reality, everyone wants.
00:22:19.500 It's just that the others accept that we are French too.
00:22:23.500 Some don't accept it when we say French.
00:22:27.500 That's the problem.
00:22:29.500 I think.
00:22:31.500 Thank you very much.
00:22:32.500 Would you like to say anything?
00:22:34.500 What's your name?
00:22:36.500 My name is Hicham.
00:22:38.500 Where are you from your family originally?
00:22:40.500 Algérie.
00:22:42.500 What are your thoughts?
00:22:44.500 I see you wearing your Eddie hat.
00:22:47.500 I speak French.
00:22:49.500 I'm against violence.
00:22:51.500 I'm against racism. That's all.
00:22:53.500 That's all.
00:22:54.500 Thank you.
00:22:55.500 Thanks for talking with me, fellas.
00:22:57.500 All the best.
00:22:58.500 My name is Ezra. What's your name?
00:23:00.500 My name is Issam.
00:23:02.500 Issam. And where is your family from originally?
00:23:06.500 Algeria.
00:23:07.500 Are you yourself from Algeria or are you from France?
00:23:10.500 From Algeria.
00:23:12.500 And what do you make of the shooting of Nehal and the riots, the revolts in response?
00:23:18.500 Calm down.
00:23:19.500 Calm down.
00:23:20.500 Calm down.
00:23:21.500 I speak French but a little English.
00:23:24.500 What do you think about Nehal?
00:23:34.500 Nehal.
00:23:35.500 Nehal.
00:23:36.500 Nehal.
00:23:37.500 Nehal.
00:23:38.500 Nehal.
00:23:39.500 Nehal.
00:23:40.500 Nehal.
00:23:41.500 Nehal.
00:23:42.500 Nehal.
00:23:43.500 Nehal.
00:23:46.500 Nehal.
00:23:48.500 Nehal.
00:23:49.500 Nehal.
00:23:50.500 Nehal.
00:23:51.500 Nehal.
00:23:52.500 Nehal.
00:23:53.500 Nehal.
00:23:54.500 Nehal.
00:23:55.500 Nehal.
00:23:56.500 Nehal.
00:23:57.500 Noне.
00:23:59.500 Sevil.
00:24:00.500 Nehal.
00:24:01.500 Nehal.
00:24:02.500 This is not an accident, what do you say?
00:24:08.500 Because the death, it comes to everyone, for that, for that, for that.
00:24:13.500 It comes to him, but I think there is propaganda, there is a lot of racism.
00:24:21.500 The Muslims, the Algerians, the other people,
00:24:28.500 the Algerians, not the Moroccan, but the Algerians, the French, and the Algerians.
00:24:35.500 It's been a long time.
00:24:38.500 I have a question for you.
00:24:40.500 In your heart, do you want Algerian or French in your heart?
00:24:51.500 Yes, of course, Algerian.
00:24:53.500 But you said to me that the other French are not fair to you,
00:25:08.500 because you are not a real French.
00:25:17.500 But you said that you are Algerian?
00:25:24.500 Yes, I am Algerian, and this is my brother, and this is my brother too.
00:25:31.500 And this is my brother too.
00:25:33.500 We arrived in France, because in France it's serious.
00:25:41.500 For example, the medical side, it's a lot of things.
00:25:47.500 A lot of things.
00:25:49.500 A lot of things.
00:25:50.500 A lot of things.
00:25:51.500 A lot of things.
00:25:52.500 It's not like the Swiss.
00:25:53.500 Because you were going to say, I was born in the Swiss.
00:25:55.500 In the Swiss, it's a bit hard.
00:25:57.500 It's not like France.
00:25:59.500 France, is she racist?
00:26:03.500 Racist?
00:26:04.500 Racist?
00:26:05.500 Racist?
00:26:06.500 Racist?
00:26:07.500 Racist?
00:26:08.500 Racist?
00:26:09.500 Racist?
00:26:10.500 In which domain?
00:26:11.500 There are some domains.
00:26:12.500 There are a lot of domains.
00:26:14.500 In which domain is racist?
00:26:16.500 Racist?
00:26:17.500 Why do you have millions of Muslims, in Algeria, Tunisia, immigrated in France?
00:26:30.500 Or if France is racist?
00:26:35.500 There are some...
00:26:40.500 There are many people who accept it, and they are racist.
00:26:45.500 He likes the Algerians, he works with the Algerians.
00:26:51.500 In Algeria, are there racist in Algeria too?
00:27:00.500 Yes.
00:27:03.500 Everyone is racist.
00:27:07.500 Do you think that a Muslim, in the future, is the president of France?
00:27:18.500 For me, I would say something.
00:27:21.500 It's not a question of Muslims, Christians, Jews, atheists.
00:27:26.500 For me, we are all humans.
00:27:29.500 So we have to do good and bad.
00:27:32.500 It's not a Muslim. For me, it's like that.
00:27:35.500 Is this scenario possible?
00:27:43.500 In America, Barack Obama, the president.
00:27:47.500 In the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunan, the Prime Minister.
00:27:54.500 In France, it's possible.
00:27:59.500 You see, the Muslim president, everything is possible in life.
00:28:05.500 It's possible?
00:28:06.500 No.
00:28:07.500 For the French, vote for a Muslim candidate?
00:28:11.500 In life, in life.
00:28:14.500 Everything is possible, but for me, it's not possible.
00:28:17.500 It's impossible.
00:28:19.500 It's for me.
00:28:21.500 It's impossible.
00:28:22.500 It's impossible.
00:28:23.500 It's impossible.
00:28:24.500 It's impossible.
00:28:26.500 Absolutely breaking news.
00:28:36.500 It's Ezra Levant here from Rebel News.
00:28:38.500 As you can see behind me, armored personnel carriers have now been deployed into the streets of Marseille.
00:28:45.500 I'm going to turn around so you can see behind me.
00:28:48.500 Just three blocks down there is the beautiful old port of Marseille.
00:28:53.500 Tourists, hotels, five-star hotels, gorgeous patios, maybe 500 yachts there.
00:29:00.500 Like, it is touristy.
00:29:01.500 It is rich and commercial.
00:29:05.500 And just up here, you have an enormous police presence that has not been here this week.
00:29:11.500 You can see behind me, the two armored personnel carriers, they do not appear to be military,
00:29:16.500 but rather police vehicles themselves.
00:29:19.500 And again, I'm just turning around a little bit so you can see there's about a dozen police
00:29:23.500 keeping people back from the vehicles.
00:29:25.500 And I said to help my camera down a bit, you can see they're wearing some body armor,
00:29:29.500 including what I'm calling exoskeletons on their legs, and some of them have them on their arms.
00:29:34.500 They're not wearing their helmets.
00:29:35.500 They have some batons, and of course, they do have some heavy weapons.
00:29:39.500 There's also about a half a dozen police vans like that one.
00:29:43.500 But I've been here for several days, and this is the highest presence there's been in a couple days.
00:29:48.500 Now, I should tell you, like, let me flip the camera around again.
00:29:52.500 Behind me, you can see all the plywood boarded-up windows.
00:29:57.500 Either those windows were smashed, or they're protected against being smashed.
00:30:02.500 And I don't know if you can see from here, but they have things on them like Justice for Nihel.
00:30:09.500 Let's just go over there and take a look because I can't remember.
00:30:14.500 So there's smashed windows and graffiti all over this town.
00:30:17.500 And again, it's remarkable how close we are.
00:30:19.500 In fact, the hotel we're staying at has a guard posted out because he said they were a threat.
00:30:24.500 So here, let me show you this.
00:30:26.500 Nick, FTP Laita.
00:30:29.500 Nick means the F word.
00:30:31.500 Laita means the state.
00:30:32.500 I don't know what FTP is.
00:30:34.500 ACAB, that's borrowed from the English.
00:30:37.500 Justice for Nahal, that's Justice for Nahal.
00:30:41.500 Nahal Marzouk, the 17-year-old Muslim who was killed by police at the end of a car chase.
00:30:49.500 They stopped him, and in fact, the shooting was filmed, which sparked the riots.
00:30:54.500 You can see the police chatting with people casually.
00:30:58.500 I don't know if I'd say there's a tension in the air, but those vehicles do not calm things.
00:31:03.500 Maybe they calm down anyone who had big plans, but they're certainly not proof of calm.
00:31:09.500 But as you can see all around me, there's a variety of people.
00:31:15.500 In fact, I'm going to walk over now to where my colleague Efron is.
00:31:19.500 We were just about to have a bite of dinner, and I just went back to the hotel room for a minute, and he said, get back down here.
00:31:25.500 So I'll keep you posted. Hopefully, this is just a show of force.
00:31:29.500 Oh, by the way, coming up here is a bunch of police motorcycles.
00:31:35.500 Again, that seems to be new. Do you see that?
00:31:40.500 One, two, three, four, five.
00:31:46.500 Half dozen police motorcycles joining the police, armored personnel carriers.
00:31:52.500 I will keep you posted. By the way, all of our updates on our visits to Marseille can be found at franceonfire.com.
00:31:59.500 And if you think this citizen journalism is useful, you can see all of our work at franceonfire.com.
00:32:05.500 And if you want to help chip in and cover the cost, I'd be grateful.
00:32:08.500 Between Efron and I, I think the cost of our journey here, even though we flew economy class and we're sharing a hotel room, is going to be about $2,800.
00:32:15.500 So if you want to help out, please do. I'll give you updates throughout the night.
00:32:18.500 Hopefully, this is just a show of force.
00:32:21.500 You can see there's still, you know, there's mums on the street, and there's tourists, and there are, obviously, idle young men.
00:32:32.500 But I didn't feel tension in the air when I left the dinner place 15 minutes ago.
00:32:38.500 I mean, here's a bunch of young gals going out for some fun.
00:32:42.500 They're just walking by the armored personnel carriers in the heart of their city like it's no big deal.
00:32:47.500 You can see, unlike the British bobbies, these French police pack heat.
00:32:53.500 All right, that's it for franceonfire.com.
00:32:56.500 Some other journalists here, as you can see, very interesting.
00:32:59.500 For Rebel News, it's Ezra Levant.
00:33:05.500 Well, that's our show for today.
00:33:06.500 Until tomorrow, on behalf of rebels everywhere, including here in Marseille, France, to you at home,
00:33:12.500 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:33:29.500 That's what it is.
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