The continuous rioting that has been going on since Friday in the French city Grenoble (PI reported) is still underway. A speaker for the police describes the situation with a hunting scenario: “It’s going badly. My colleagues are taking it pretty badly. They’re shooting at us like rabbits. And tonight? What will it look like for us tonight? … We are counting on the worst.
Frédéric Lagache of the police union is himself aware of the desperation in the normal population:
“We are here so that security will be respected, so that the residents can live in peace. I have seen residents crying. Order must be restored.”
On being questioned why the “young man” whose death unleashed a wave of violence wasn’t just injured, Lagache answered:
“It’s easy to say that now. But when one is in the heat of the battle, believe me, it’s a little different. My colleagues have defended their physical integrity. After all, this person had fired three times with a military weapon into the windshield! You can’t imagine that. We can say that we were lucky that there were no casualties among us.”
The police repudiated the accusation of murder:
“That is simply unacceptable because it simply isn’t the truth. The Minister of the Interior has to support his police officers. He is there so that the law will be respected. For this reason, we are demanding that he carry out legal proceedings for us against the mother of the young man who has raised these unacceptable accusations against us. We understand her despair. That, however is no reason to stigmatize the police.”
Those who enrich France see it differently. For them, this hunt against the evil police is the restoration of justice, and certain media reports show great sympathy for this.
Pictures from Grenoble in the previous night:




























