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Back in mid-January, I wrote about the takeover of Paris’ Gaîté Lyrique theatre, one of the French capital’s most historic arts venues, by more than 250 west African migrants. They had been invited by the theatre’s Left-wing management to attend a free conference the previous month titled “Reinventing the Welcome for Refugees in France.” When the conference ended, the migrants reinvented this welcoming gesture by refusing to leave, and their numbers grew to over 300 as sanitary conditions worsened by the day. The multiculturalist management refused to throw them out in the dead of winter, because the Left prioritizes non-Western illegals over even their own survival; so the theatre instead canceled all performances indefinitely, driving it toward bankruptcy after an estimated “several hundred thousand euros in direct losses” of ticket sales.
Businesses surrounding the 19th century venue were and are being impacted as well. The manager of the popular bistro next door reported €30,000 in lost revenue at the time of my previous article. “They are ruining my business,” the bistro owner, herself the daughter of Algerian migrants, told reporters:
They hang around outside my terrace, smoking joints and fighting among themselves. Not only do we no longer get theatregoers because the theatre is shut but we don’t get passers-by either. They’re being frightened away by all these young men.
The theatre is owned by the City of Paris, which is dominated by Socialists and Greens, so they blame government inaction instead of the squatters themselves or instead of taking responsibility for having literally ushered them in, but President Macron’s cabinet reportedly has ignored a request to intercede.
As one would expect, especially because the self-righteous theater Leftists have been “welcoming and sheltering the occupants” throughout this debacle rather than having them evicted, things have only deteriorated from there. Now the theater managers are set to abandon the building because the situation has become so “explosive,” surrender has become their only option.
There are now 446 people living inside illegally, most of them claiming to be minors who, under French law, deserve permanent government support and housing. But local officials insist the migrants are adults who had been homeless prior to being invited into the theatre. “This is an illegal occupation of a building by recognized migrants,” authorities said in December.
But no official entity wants to be perceived as anti-migrant, so nothing has been done. Thus, with theater staff feebly attempting to act as “onsite security guards,” “untenable promiscuity” among the occupiers has led to increasing sexual tension and violence, and the management claims migrants have been witnessed dealing and using drugs; they warn of an “explosive and undignified situation” that is “increasing in severity.”
A judge at the Paris Administrative Court ordered the evacuation of the building on February 13, but the council has refused to involve the police. Indeed, the migrants are being supported by radical political activists called the Collectif des Jeunes du Parc de Belleville (the Youth Collective of Belleville Park) – named after a Parisian park they first occupied – who view the occupation as part of their “anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle.”
The collective puts on daily demonstrations on the steps of the theatre which begin with the banging of drums and the blaring of slogans through megaphones as they block entry to the theatre. “We are here to claim our right to housing, health, and education,” Précieux, a Congolese migrant who claims to be 16, told the French news agency AFP.
As I wrote previously, could this migrant takeover of a theater owned by naïve multiculturalist Parisian elites be a more perfect metaphor for the mass migration that is imploding Western Europe? Countries from the UK to Scandinavia to Germany have facilitated a tsunami of ungovernable hordes of mostly military-age Muslim males from Africa and the Middle East who are overwhelming tiny villages as well as major urban centers.
In the Gaîté Lyrique theatre as in France at large, Left-wing activists who despise their own countries and civilization welcomed a steady stream of migrants from cultures that are actively hostile to the host culture, and who are now occupying the continent and demanding their “right” to sponge off the prosperity and freedoms of the West, even as they refuse to assimilate.
The only workable response should have been the swift, unapologetic eviction of the “anti-colonialist” squatters from the Gaîté Lyrique theatre, and then from the country of France itself. That would send a powerful message of strength and hope to French citizens and the people of other Western countries who are struggling with this subversive crisis. Prioritizing and coddling the occupiers over citizens and legal immigrants does not work and never will.
But now, in both the theater and the nation in the broader sense, the problem has become untenable and the authorities, neutered by multiculturalist ideology, cannot summon the political will nor the law enforcement show of force to manage it.
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Sacre bleu! comes to mind.
Once again France is occupied. When that happens, observers can’t tell Vichy way it will go.
Now there’s no Vivhy to run to
Their proving each day the need for a Border Wall and why we don’t need or want Open Borders and we can do without the Useless Nations and its Human Rights Commission after all America has also ready pulled out of UNSESCO and therefore we don’t want of need the UN as well
couldnt happen to a more deserving bunch of left wing elites . paris has been a moral cess pit for years . now that the terrorists have this success under their belts i cant wait to see which building they takeover next . betrayal of jews during the 2nd world war has now the chickens that have come home to roost as has all of europe . now that the barbarians have entered the gates by invitation the govt. wont or cant rescind its lunacy . just like the left wingers in israel believing in a 2 state fiction that have paid the price for their indulgent friendship with the fakestinians and the terrorist cult that is islam .
Being a leftoid means never admitting you are wrong.
Black ingrates are violently abusing the hospitality of their host country? Gosh, I’m glad that’s never happened here in America.
I don’t want squatters soiling American museums except the Smithsonian and all the “African” American ones but I encourage BLM, Hamas, activists for the Alphabet People and the rest of the “woke” America-last mob to squat in the federal Capitol Building and the Capitol buildings of all states controlled by their Dirtbagocrat patrons.
Curious. Are there no police dogs or fire hoses in Paris? Maybe tear gas the place, round them up as they vacate, and put them on a charter flight to Lagos. It might send a message.
That would of course be “racist”.
I think Russians once fentayl-ed a theatre, didn’t they? Everyone died. Those Russians!
Theatres are meant to entertain people, are you not entertained?
The Gaité Lyrique being managed by leftists who have transformed this cultural place paid by the taxpayer, like almost all cultural places in France, culture in this country having been clearly “Sovietized” via a ministry of culture, into a woke propaganda organ, they only have what they deserve. For thousands and thousands of years, human beings have made culture without a ministry of culture, a ministry that has been gangrened by leftism, cultural Marxism. Culture in France must be privatized in order to avoid this kind of ideological corruption financed by the taxpayer, including millions of French people, who do not support leftism or wokeism.
I’m surprised the Louvre wasn’t opened to squatters. Maybe the Arc de Triomphe can be used as a urinal?
Yet Macron thinks he can manage a “coalition of the willing” with Starmer to stop the war in Ukraine. Patently absurd.
You no longer need to bother paying to go to the theater to see a sordid farce, you listen to French politicians.
From right to left.
You feel like communism was given to them at birth via suppositories.
France is no longer a country, but a zone.
I am for replacing France on the map with Zone.
Welcome to Zone.
“Are we going on holiday to Zone, my dear?”
The Zone, a wonderful country (for sale)
Maybe the pair of them should offer a too-good-to-turn-down opportunity of becoming mercenaries in the Ukraine to the migrants. France and the UK can afford a high salary if they aren’t paying them any benefits or picking up the pieces from anti-social behaviour, and they may not be alive to draw their salaries for long anyway. Once the scheme is established, they just turn new migrants round in the direction of Eastern Europe as they reach the borders. Mr Zelensky might just find he prefers Mr Trump…..
Any pig farmers in France? I’ve never heard of “French Bacon”! Oh, and don’t get me started on that fake Canadian “bacon” – it’s ROUND HAM!!
France always seems to get something started that requires OTHERS to fix. TWICE the USA has rescued them. That should be enough “THANKS” for France’s support during Our Revolution. But I think most of their support then was really their hatred of all things English!
SO, when you support communism, unfortunately, you GET communism! Enjoy or whatever the French word is!
When the Merde hits the Paris’ Gaîté Lyrique theatre’s big ventilateur….the results are amusing to watch. It’s fun seeing the left get hit with actual consequences for their actions.
Play Good Samartant and they take advantage of it
The owners should sell the building to a local mosque, and see how fast the “occupation” gets cleaned out.
The brains have fallen out of these ‘open minded’ leftists.
“open minds”
Yes, to put in quotes. I know this place, I went there years ago, there was a work room open to everyone. A nest of sectarian leftists, locked in their mental prison. Anything that is not like them is rejected. They live in a closed circle, disconnected from the rest of the population. A real sect that understood that wearing a military uniform was scary, and who therefore dress like cool, like bohemians…
Best!
Where is America and Israel when Europe fails in the foreseeable future?
Can’t call out the Army or police as they are as free from Infiltration as the Lebanese military..
The French deserve what they are getting. The liberal multiculturalists bring it onto themselves.