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Just when
the state of national emergency was about to end for France at the
end of July, Hollande announced a three-month extension following the Bastille Day
attacks in Nice.
The decision
was taken almost immediately, but what's even most impressive, is
that the French government instantly recognized this new tragedy as a
terrorist attack, without waiting for Daesh or other extremist
organization to take responsibility. Did they had information about
the attack? And if they did, why they failed to prevent it?
In any case,
the extension of the state of emergency for another three-months
comes right when Hollande it needed. The football European
championship party was over and there was nothing to distract
attention from the anti-labor bill that he wants desperately to pass.
As described previously: “Using the pretext of the Islamic
terrorism the French government tries to deal with the ongoing
protests against the labor "reform", as neither Euro 2016
managed to reduce the tension of these massive protests. The French
government tries to downgrade systematically the protests under the
pretext of terrorism, in order to disorientate public opinion. The
massive protests continue to take place in France with thousands
participating, who are determined not to let the anti-labor bill to
be voted. [...] While the French media are playing the game of
terrorism, trying to spread the fear and reduce the resistance of the
workers, the PM François Hollande is determined to crush the unions
and the workers by escalating the police violence.”
Now that the
'bread and circuses' football European championship of 2016 is over,
the French government had to face two problems: First, there was
nothing to distract public opinion from the ongoing battle in the
streets of France between the unions and the suppression forces on
the occasion of the anti-labor law. Second, as the state of emergency
was expiring, Hollande had to come “face-to-face” with thousands
of people in the streets.
Recall
that “on the occasion of the COP21 climate change summit, which
by coincidence(?) took place in Paris, less than a month from the
terror attacks, the French authorities proceeded in unprecedented
security measures, including activists who had nothing to do with
terrorism!”
Therefore,
by the time that the new three-month state of emergency period
expire, Hollande probably hopes that he can prevail over the unions
through further suppression. Moreover, the new brutal attack in Nice
can be used to divide the French people. While until now the
protesters had the support of the French public opinion, the tired
and frightened citizens who will request 'peace and order', may
eventually turn against the protesters.
Hollande got
an extra period of three months to crush the unions, for the purpose
of delivering a broken labor-rights framework to the next French
presidency in 2017, as the lobby-occupied EU ordered. What will happen if the unions manage to
resist and stay in the streets by the end of this period? You can
only guess ...
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