"We came to cut the whites"

The household conflict of adolescents grew into large -scale protests of the ultra -right and split France. Who is to blame?

Household stooping a fatal outcome in the French outback split the country and led to a splash of ultra -right moods. Some of the French are “fed up with the behavior of the dark -skinned part of the society, which they associate with poverty, unemployment, drugs and murders. The “right” are mobilized more than ever and require radical changes, up to the deportation of fellow citizens. The French media also added oils to the fire, which, together with the right -wing politicians, actively speculated on the tragedy and began to blame for the incident a disastrous migration policy, whose criticism of President Emmanuel Macron. However, despite the “reviving nostalgia for the Third Reich,” most French people urge to wait for the investigation results, and not pour empty accusations. The “right challenge” of French democracy is in the material “cold”.

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In the village of Freight , in the south-east of France, a mass fight with stabbing took place, as a result of which the 16-year-old French schoolboy Tom Poto died. The incident occurred back in November, but the country is still experiencing the consequences of a skirmish. He came to the fortress of Tom with his brother (his media does not call his name) from the neighboring village of Shalon (not far from Roman-Sur-Izer): they planned to relax at the Winter Ball party, where about 400 people from the nearest villages gathered .

A group of young people of African descent from Roman Sur-Izer, whom many hastened to accuse of what had happened, also came to dances. Two people are suspected of murdering Tom: the first is the 22-year-old Frenchman of North African origin named Ilyas. The second-a 17-year-old teenager with a French name and surname-does not disclose his data, since he is a minor. There is a version that one of the main suspects has French citizenship.

In total, according to the results of the brawls, nine people, including three teenagers, are arrested or under judicial control. They are accused of deliberate violence organized by a group of persons. Seven of them tried to escape from the police to Toulouse; One of the accused was previously detained for other offenses. More than 100 gendarmes work on the case.

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The police found out that four of the nine accused arrived at the party closer to midnight when the entrance became free. They learned about her from social networks and wanted to meet local girls. The rest at this time drank from a mini-market nearby. Young people at the entrance were searched by security, one of them seized a hunting knife. The guests of the “Winter Ball” did not pay attention to them, although some later recalled that the visitors threw “oblique glances” on a crowd of merrying people.

The situation began to heated by two in the morning, at the end of the party. According to Ilyess, the fight began due to the provocation of a friend and namesake of Tom-a Frenchman from a fortress named Tom L., he went to Ilyes during the performance of the Tchikita (Chikita) rapper Jul. In the text of the song there is a line about long hair, which Tom L. repeated to Ilyes and grabbed his hair gathered in his tail. So he decided to play a trick on Ilyaes. The name of the song refers to the French Argo and means "perfect woman" or "sexy woman." Offending a comparison with a woman, Ilyaes suggested Tom L. to go outside and "explain to a manly way." Tom L. himself only said during interrogation that, “perhaps pushed” Ilyes.

Who started a fight, the police could not be installed. Ilyes says that Tom L. and two or three of his register friends attacked him. Those in response assure that they had to defend themselves from aggression of Ilyes and his friends who drank nearby. In total, about 30 people took part in the brawl, and stab wounds were recorded on both sides. As a result of the skirmishes of the 16-year-old volume, a knife was thrust into the region of the heart, and he died on the way to Lyon’s hospital. Another 17 people were injured in varying severity.

One of the witnesses of the murder claims that he heard the attackers shouted: "We are here to kill the whites, we came to cut the whites." Out of 104 witnesses, only nine remembered that they heard racist cries addressed to the “whites” during the brawl. In turn, the regional prosecutor Laurent de Kanya said that the incident was not a planned group attack based on racial or ethnic hatred: it was likely that it was a household conflict due to a comment on “someone’s hairstyle”.

Everything is not so clear

For the conservative part of the French public, this case was an example of the attack of the “barbarians” on a real “Gallic” village. Without waiting for the results of the investigation, the ultra -right French decided that the killer was an African immigrant, and compared the conflict in the fortress with the attack of Hamas on Israel.

Partially, this version is supported by the organizer of the party Emmanuel Dance. She noted that the aggressors initially came to a party with cold weapons, and recalls how in horror she was looking for her 17-year-old son among the victims that evening. There were wounded everywhere: they did a heart massage in the middle of the hall, in the toilet a young man was bleeding from a knife wound in the back, and a volume lay on the floor of the kitchen.

“I don't want to hear the word“ fight ”. It was an attack! At the party, they came with kitchen and meat knives size at least 20 centimeters. Personally, I don’t carry a knife with me, ” said the organizer of the party.

One of the possible causes of the conflict could be social stratification in the French outback. Ilyes was represented by a dysfunctional area of ​​Roman-Sur-Izer, while Tom’s company is, on the contrary, from prosperous. “Young people from Roman Sur-Izer and Fortles communicate in high school, they know each other in the face, but they are from different worlds,” says a source close to the investigation.

“The image of those 16-year-old teenagers standing near Tom’s coffin will be pursued all my life. Integration failed. It is not necessary to be such a scientist as [the French sociologist Pierre] Bourdieo to understand: when you focus all world poverty in one place, you create a complex, uncontrollable situation, ” says local activist David Guillaon about La Monna, a dysfunctional area of ​​Roman-Sur-span.

Not everyone agrees with the version of the planned attack. One of the main arguments of the supporters of the version of the domestic conflict is the fragmentation of the Ilyes group, which did not act as a whole during a fight.

“Stop saying that this youth went there in order to attack. This is not true. They went to have fun, and it ended in a fight, ” said a resident of Roman Sur-Izer.

Most young people who arranged a massacre in the fortle live in the area of ​​La Monna of Roman-Sur-Izer. Once this area was a symbol of social diversity, now it is a crime center , where even the police are afraid to go. Residents of La Montne do not consider themselves French, although many of them were born in France and have a European passport. The indigenous Frenchmen also do not recognize their compatriots in them, calling Magribes or simply Muslims. Drugs are openly sold here, often hug cars and attack cafes and restaurants.

A threat to the threat

The French of the right views took up arms against the families of the accused: they began to receive threats of reprisals, and the mothers of one of the attackers had to refuse to rent a house in Roman Syur-Izere and leave. The network began to spread the names of adolescents of African origin, which allegedly could be at the scene. Social accounts in social networks urge these people to be avenge without any evidence of their guilt.

Roman-Sur-Izer is controlled by the mayor of the right views of Marie-Elen Toraval. After the attack in the fortress, she called on to pay special attention to the “sensitive areas” of the city and said that “savages” live in La Monna. After these statements, she also began to threaten her reprisals . The unknown called her, called the fascist and asked if she had a Kalashnikov assault rifle for self -defense. Another anonymous wrote to her in personal messages in social networks, promising "to prove her skull."

Toraval has been at the head of the city for 10 years. The municipal opposition blames her in the situation that has developed in La Monna. After an election in 2014, Toraval reduced the financing of social programs in the area. Due to its decision, the association was also closed , which offered local residents work and extracurricular lessons for children. The median income of the inhabitants of Roman-Sur-Izer and Formol is significantly lower than in other similar settlements: mediate income in the novel-19.9 thousand euros, in the fortress-21 thousand, and the median significance in the rest of the French capture is 25 thousand euros per year.

“These guys were five or 10 years old when the mayor was elected. If she retained the same programs that I had when I was young, if they had the same chances as in my time, perhaps they would work as engineers in the same companies like me, ” said Salim Long, who grew up in La Monna.

“French, wake up! You are at home "

Despite the lack of the results of the investigation, many French media tied the murder of Tom with the problems of immigration in France. “Right” politicians instantly joined this criticism, according to which, the tragedy serves as evidence that the traditional values ​​of France are at risk, because the descendants of immigrants do not want to assimilate. For example, Marion Mareshal, Vice President of the RECOMPLE Party Reconqueth, said that Tom became a victim of “anti-bearing racism”. The founder of the party and the ex-candidate for president Eric darmur called the murder of the "Francocide", in which the "Arabs-Muslims" always act as aggressors. Zammura was previously fined for inciting hatred: in 2020, he called minor migrants "thieves, killers and rapists."

Three days after the murder in Roman Sur-Izer, the White March was held in memory of Tom. This event organized by the family of the deceased was “apolitical”. About six thousand people came to him. A few days later, about a hundred ultra -right activists took to the streets of La Monna. Armed with iron rods and baseball bats, they shouted: “Islam, leave Europe”, “France belongs to us” and “justice for Tom: neither forgiveness nor oblivion”. For participation in this action, six Frenchmen were sentenced to prison terms of six to 10 months.

Experts note that right -wing activists were very well organized. Participants in the combat march arrived from all over France, and it took less than a week to organize the protest. “The extreme right, in fact, gathered a militia,” says France expert, historian from the University of London, Queen Maria, Andrew Smith. The rallies were in Paris: although initially the authorities banned the rally of the right, at the last minute the court canceled this decision. From 200 to one and a half thousand ultra -right gathered in Pantheon Square, they are chanted: “French, wake up! You are at home. "

The Minister of Internal Affairs of France Gerald Darmanen, after unrest, promised to ban three right extremist groups. He also warned that “mobilization is taking place inside the extreme right groups, which will lead to a civil war,” and added that the radicals “seek to attack Arabs, people with a different skin of the skin, nostalgic for the third Reich”. The protesters, armed with knives and brass knife, really urged supporters to “stop the mourning minutes of silence” and prepare for war.

Successful have already achieved success with the help of aggression. In 2022, the authorities of the small town of Callak in Brittany wanted to launch a refugee reception program. The authorities hoped in this way to revive the commune where a little more than two thousand people remained to live, but in response to the proposal, right -wing activists began to threaten municipal politicians with rape and murder. As a result, the mayor of the city abandoned this idea.

Living has become worse

The murder of Tom was injured by society in Fortle and Roman Sur-Izere. Now people constantly feel fear and anxiety and some are afraid to leave home. Many residents of the criminal region of La Monna complain that now they are afraid to leave home. They fear that they can be pursued for hijabs or for a non -European appearance. The mosque in the neighboring valance received a letter with a drawing of the naked Prophet Muhammad and the text “A good Muslim - a dead Muslim. Justice for Tom. " However, this is not the first surge of Islamophobia in Roman Sur-Izer: back in 1982, the ultra-rights blew up the city mosque under construction.

The tragedy directly hit Joseph Ginar, a member of the city council of Roman-Sur-Izer. That night, the attackers wounded his grandson. The boy was among those nine witnesses who heard racist threats to the white French. Ginar agrees that La Monna strongly influenced the reduction of important social programs, but poverty, in his opinion, does not explain how to come to dancing with a knife and kill a person.

“I used to think that all people are good. I easily found excuses for them. Now it is more complicated. This is not a matter of investment or money. This is a matter of humanity, ”Ginar believes .

There were opposite cases in the novel-Sur-Izere when migrants attacked local residents. In 2020, a refugee from Sudan pounced on people with a knife in stores. During his arrest, he kneeling on the sidewalk and prayed in Arabic. And just a month and a half before the tragedy in the fortle, there was an attack on a party in the commune of Saint-Martin-PTI with a population of 600 people. The ethnic origin of the attackers is not specified, but the driver who brought the attackers to the crime scene was supposedly a woman in a hijab.

The murder of the 16-year-old volume PetoTto split France into two camps. The right -wing politicians and the right -wing French media played a significant role in such a division of society, who tried to find the goats of the Muslims. Even French President Emmanuel Macron was furious that the “right” version of Tom’s killers clearly dominates the agenda. The prosecutor in this case warned the public against "hasty interpretations."