The Terrible Paris massacre ha shocked Europe. From his very heart have emerged abominable beings capable of committing the greatest atrocity without barely blinking. This monstrosity, more typical of failed states like Mexico or Iraq, is above all a horrifying example of the failure of French and European society. A dangerous bankruptcy of the model of citizen relations and the system of freedoms that France has championed since the Revolution. A slap in the face of its educational system and its model of the social and legal state that has served as an example and stimulus in the construction of the house of freedoms which, with all its shortcomings and weaknesses, continues to be today Europe day.
Because the terrorists who carried out the attack yesterday in Paris are not foreigners or belong to commandos expressly displaced from Syria or Libya to the city of light. No. It is much more worrying: they are European citizens. French with full rights and condition. Born in France, educated in France and raised in France. Several thousand citizens have apparently been progressively enrolling in the jihadist militias to fight in the Middle East and many others, as in the case of yesterday, reserve the liberating role in their own towns and cities. Certainly heartbreaking that this happens and even more heartbreaking to recognize that our society is incapable of offering anything better to these people.
After yesterday’s blood, now will come the excessive response of new Islamophobic saviors who will take to the streets of France or Germany intimidating women wearing the Islamic headscarf or families speaking Arabic. Police alerts will be raised and preventive repression will be rampant through the French banlieues, veritable museums of urban planning errors. This fire will feed new brigade members of Allah who will show us the path of horror.
And while both feed each other, the rest of us will continue to allow irresponsible governments that value oil more than human dignity. Governments that tear their clothes when horror walks through the Champs Elysées while they pay tribute to the god of war on the other side of the Mediterranean.
We will surely have to wait for greater social serenity to understand that the solution in our house lies only in investing in education, investing in equal opportunities and investing in democracy, which is nothing more than a civic process of permanent struggle towards freedom.
From here all our solidarity, closeness and public recognition to our fellow citizens who died yesterday in a summary trial for the crime of expressing themselves and giving their opinion.