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The policeman Arnaud Beltrame is celebrated as a national hero in France because he died after he volunteered to take the place of a female hostage in a terrorist shootout with the police in the South of France.

French supermarket siege: gendarme dies after taking place of hostage

The gunman, a Moroccan-born thief and drug dealer got into a shootout with the police. In the end, 4 hostages and the gunman were killed. Before going down, the gunman shouted the usual crap about ISIS just to piss at society one last time, but there are no known terrorist affiliations. He was just a very minor crook. The police officer who had volunteered to be substituted for a hostage died in hospital.

The whole of France is in mourning. No, not the whole. Leftist politician Stéphane Poussier, who had run for Melechon's far-left La France Insoumise in the district of Calvados fired off a series of tweets celebrating the killing of a French policeman.

In his tweets, he referred to Rémi Fraisse, a militant ecologist who had been shot by the police in 2014 during a demonstration against the barrage at Sivens.

Un ex-candidat de La France insoumise se réjouit de la mort d'Arnaud Beltrame

The French bourgeoisie is anchored in the revolution of 1789. That is one of the most important referents in French culture. Like in 1968, the offspring of the French bourgeoisie considers it good style to oppose the authorities. Getting into fights with the police is the mark of honour to every student. People from all over the world who have the good fortune of having spent their youth in Paris, emulate the behaviour of their French friends, go to demonstrate together, fight the police, burn a few cars and throw a few Molotov cocktails. Boys will be boys, and French students will be French students. Anyways, who wants to be a pussy and not have some fights with the police?

Once they grow up and graduate, they enter the establishment and all the sins of the wild student days are forgiven. As a student, you can be Maoist like the former chief of the EU Commission, who now works for Goldman Sachs. That just goes to show that you have initiative.

Not so for the North African immigrants in the banlieues. Firstly, they don't go to university, and then they don't graduate and become pillars of society. They can graduate from minor criminal to hardened thug, but that's about it. They become socialized in French culture by hanging out in the coffee houses with the students. But since they don't come from the good families of the bourgeoisie, their ways part once the sons of good family don their business suits to become men of the world.

Islam is not important to them and French secular society insists that the State must have nothing to do with religion. The North African communities in the banlieues ought to sort out their own problems. French society doesn't want to know about it.

None of this is any excuse for violence and terror and many North Africans achieve professional qualifications and social status, but it does show why France has this particular problem, which is specifically French and entirely home-grown.

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