FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – After the riots of November 11 and 15, the Belgian press published the portraits of nine individuals wanted by the police. The..
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – After the riots of November 11 and 15, the Belgian press published the portraits of nine individuals wanted by the police. The Belgian senator, Alain Destexhe denounces the refusal of the media to name those responsible for these degradations.
Alain Destexhe is a Belgian senator (Reform movement).
The publication by all the Belgian press this Thursday, December 14, of portraits of nine individuals wanted by the police for their participation in the riots last month in Brussels is a slap in the face to the journalists of the traditional media who persist in refusing to see the ethnic character of the repeated riots which rock the capital of Europe.
Nine portraits, nine young people, blacks or of the Mediterranean type, as the police said a little while ago, all of non-European origin and not very representative, statistically, of a population of European origin. All wanted for destruction of street furniture, looting of shops and assaults on police officers. Criminal facts of a new kind, appeared a few years ago, which were not conceivable, formerly, in the city of Jacques Brel.
Impossible this time to deny the evidence of the origin of the authors: it is the photos communicated by the police which attest to it. Unanimous, however, the press refuses to correctly describe the facts and their perpetrators as anything other than “young”. When our media use this term, ordinary mortals now understand and mentally add “of foreign origin”. Young "Belgians", no doubt since we have naturalized with a vengeance, but who are not perceived by the majority population as part of the national community.
It did not take a great stretch of the imagination to see that this violence is of communal or ethnic origin.
However, it did not take a great stretch of the imagination to see that this violence is of communal or ethnic origin. Thus on October 20, at the gate of Anderlecht, home of the famous football club, around a hundred Syrian migrants and young people (Belgo-Moroccans) clashed in the street for the "control of the public space of the district », in particular the enjoyment of a public park.
On November 11, it was following the Ivory Coast-Morocco match that the city center caught fire. The instigator of these riots had posted this message the day before on Facebook: “We are going all burnt in Lemonnier Maroc city”. Lemonnier is the name of the boulevard in question, but can the expression "Morocco city" mean anything other than a desire to appropriate this territory, at least for one evening? This did not prevent an ecologist deputy from declaring in all seriousness on television that the origin of the rioters was not known!
Four days later, on the Place de la Monnaie, a symbol of Belgian independence, young immigrants once again sowed panic and looted shops in the heart of the city, on the occasion of the arrival of Vargasss92, a French Youtubeur named Mansour (“blessed by God to be victorious”). On December 10, a 29-year-old Romanian died at the Bockstael metro in Laeken, after a pitched battle between rival gangs in the corridors of the station. Several Romanians were arrested.
A little earlier, on November 28, it was following a demonstration against slavery, bringing together mainly Africans in the upper part of the city, near the Matongé district (named after a town in Kinshasa) , that "young people" attacked businesses and the police. Arrived shortly after on the scene, police and witnesses confirmed to me that the troublemakers - a hundred people - were all young blacks, but perhaps it was a group of skinheads who had disguised themselves as fathers whippersnappers to sow doubt, at least in the minds of journalists.
About skinheads, I have no problem recognizing that it is a violent phenomenon which concerns almost exclusively “white” individuals and I feel in no way offended.
About skinheads, I have no problem recognizing that it is a violent phenomenon which concerns almost exclusively "white" individuals and I do not feel offended, stigmatized or victim of amalgams, to use media-consecrated expressions, if it is described as such.
Because these new phenomena of riots, Molotov cocktails thrown at police stations, police victims of ambushes, firefighters prevented from intervening, public transport company controllers beaten up, urban gangs, lawless zones, … are all and always linked to the consequences of the uncontrolled immigration policy that the Belgian population has suffered for 30 years, without ever having the possibility of discussing it. Describing these new types of crime without linking them to immigration and failed integration is itself misinformation.
The media system allows for proper naming of things only when it comes to presenting it from the angle of victimization. Thus, during an RTBF (the public channel) program devoted to the riots, only the veiled guest of immigrant origin was authorized to speak of "the youth of Moroccan, North African immigration, let's say of religious Muslim" to denounce his "abandonment". The same speech, if it was given by a politician Belgian-Belgian to characterize the offenders would have been described as a "serious slippage".
Since these are facts, why this refusal to speak of "young North Africans", "young blacks", "young Congolese", when opponents of President Kabila's regime regularly create trouble in Brussels?
No doubt because the integration of foreign communities has totally failed, even if many individuals have succeeded.
Probably because we must not admit that Brussels is an uncontrollable powder keg, which is beginning to look like this hell hole (hell hole) described by Donald Trump, an expression that, curiously, the Belgian press has creatively translated as "rat hole".
Brussels is a juxtaposition of communities that live together, without sharing anything.
Probably because we must deny that Brussels is a juxtaposition of communities that live together, without sharing anything, no longer reading the same newspapers, no longer watching the same television channels and no longer celebrating the same holidays. And that this sad reality must be masked with a lot of slogans like “living together” or expensive campaigns celebrating “diversity”;
Undoubtedly because we must not name the big culprit, uncontrolled immigration, so massive that it prevents integration, an immigration wanted by the leaders of almost all the political parties in a hurry to live in the multicultural paradise and to throw overboard the old world of "daddy's Belgium".
Probably because it is necessary to minimize the exodus of the middle classes of Belgian origin (but also of older immigrant origin) who seek by all means to flee certain districts of the capital and are forced to go into exile in Flanders or in Wallonia.
Undoubtedly because no one knows what to do in the face of the worrying rise in power of Islam and Islamism while the rest of Belgian society is increasingly secularized.
Probably also because Brussels is a city in the process of impoverishment with a decreasing per capita income where 90% of social recipients are of immigrant origin.
Finally and above all because it is necessary to mask the total failure of the management of the Socialist Party in power in the Brussels region for… 28 years without interruption.
Alain Destexhe
Liberal Belgian politician; member of the Reform Movement. He was Secretary General of the international network of Doctors Without Borders, President of the International Crisis Group, of Parliamentarians for Global Action and of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the IMF.
