There was a drive-by (it’s more like a scooter-by) with an automatic weapon yesterday in Belleville around 11h40pm. A small street away and a couple of minutes after we got out of the restaurant with friends.
Apparently, drug-related violence. I guess I can’t fear getting shot in L.A. now.
It kills me. I warned my parents if you don’t take a stance, if your generation in power doesn’t make drugs and at least cannabis legal and controlled, combined with terrible unemployment it’s going to explode.
It was five years ago. Since then, even the socialists now in power said no no and no, despite things like Portugal’s drugs policies, despite violence increasing in the country. It kills me.
Violence in Marseille is out of control and the solution according to France’s government full of old rotten fucks is to deploy more security, more cops, more stop and frisks, more racism, more tension, more fire and more desperation. On the internet all you can read about these murders of young French people over money and drugs is “good riddance!”. Arabs and black people know they can’t dream of achieving anything in France (it’s not like there’s a lot of examples in 40 years of immigration), and selling hashish is very lucrative. Infinite loop.
There’s this big country called USA which went through that with crack and repression didn’t work out, it fucked up the country socially even more. But maybe the goal is the same, putting as many non-white people in jail as possible. Maybe a lot of people are cool with that.