Le vice français
Off to Britain again for most of the next five days but will do my best to keep in touch with Salut!.
With more time, I would have talked about the Paris St Germain fan shot dead by a black police officer in Paris in disturbances after a PSG defeat by Tel Aviv.
All I know is what I have read and heard, and this includes references to the officer trying to protect a Jew being attacked by PSG fans.
PSG is a club with a dreadful hooliganism problem - almost turning one of our (English) vices, now under control if not quite conquered, into le vice français - and sometimes seems locked in a neanderthal age. You don't like us and we don't care, as the Millwall yobs like to put it, and if they cannot find Jews, blacks or rival supporters to fight, they fight among themselves.
Or I might have brought you news of how young French people view the presidential race: essentially no way Sarko, maybe Ségo.
But all this must wait until I have more time to spend with my computer. That will come and soon. Bon weekend.
By Colin Randall @ Friday, November 24, 2006 ¦
1 Comments:
It's going on all the time. A little restructuring here and a little there. People steadily being declared surplus to requirements. The resentment and alienation is steadily rising. You'd think somebody would realise that it is not worth sacrificing everything for cheap bras and knickers from China.
I don't know Toulon very well though I did visit a few years back, nice enough. It is of course Le Pen stomping ground, as is all PACA. There was a FN mayor, Le Chevalier, a few years back. As always when FN gets power there was bickering and fighting, no doubt amplified by the media.It's gone back to the right. So there is obviously an immigration problem. There is also a zone franche, which means that there is an underpriveledged economic area.
I don't know much about military affairs, but I suspect that Brest is winning the defence euros. After all our principle enemy is across the Channel.
Of course Toulon has a famous place in history. They were bribed by the British to reject the revolution, and the Brits occupied the port. An unknown French soldier led his troups magnificently and kicked them out.He was called Napoleon.
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