France is deploying 70,000 police, armored vehicles, and water cannons this weekend after a suspected terrorist killed one person and wounded four others — including a 12-year-old girl — in a shooting near Paris, and the lesson for Americans is plain: mass immigration and open borders deliver exactly this harvest.
The suspect in Trappes, a 39-year-old man, fired apparently at random from a vehicle, according to AFP. The mayor said the dead victim and at least one of the wounded were "of African origin." Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told local media: "The motive may be racist. The investigation is ongoing, but this is clearly a terrorist crime." President Macron offered the customary thoughts — "the nation is standing with" the victims — then returned to managing the chaos his own policies helped create.
That chaos is twofold. The terror attack landed on top of a weekend of nationwide protests that saw an estimated 800,000 march last Saturday, driven by anger over the rising cost of living and deteriorating public services. Macron's response: ban demonstrations requested by individuals or groups with "no legitimate authority" and redirect union-approved marches away from city centers. "The rules are simple and I think they're just common sense," he said. Common sense from the same leader who spent years opening France's doors.
Macron blamed the violence on "ultra-left groups whose aim is to bring down the Republic." Fox News highlighted that framing prominently; The Guardian, by contrast, buried the terror attack entirely, describing the unrest as a reaction to "deteriorating conditions in public schools and teacher shortages" — as though a terror shooting and mass immigration had nothing to do with each other. The Guardian's omission is the tell.
Meanwhile, the NFL is pressing ahead with its first regular-season game in Paris on Sunday — Steelers vs. Saints at the Stade de France — because corporate revenue waits for no crisis. The league closed its Paris pop-up store on Saturday and a Steelers fan event was canceled, but quarterback Aaron Rodgers told reporters: "If it was unsafe, then I'm sure we wouldn't be here." The U.S. State Department issued a security alert telling Americans to "avoid demonstrations and areas of unrest." The show goes on. The Louvre and Musée d'Orsay will close. Twenty-four Paris Metro stations will shut down. But the NFL plays on.
The police on the ground see who abandoned them. Fabian Vahemelryck, secretary general of the Alliance Police Nationale union, blamed political figures who "excuse the inexcusable, justify violence and prefer to overwrite police officers rather than condemn those who attack them." He accused the state of abandoning officers "in the face of increasingly uninhibited violence, while demanding that they accept, remain silent and continue to hold the line."
Seventy thousand police to hold a country together. Major cultural institutions shuttered. A terror suspect who walked through the front door France left open. And an American press that can't bring itself to connect the dots. The globalist playbook is on display: open the borders, import the crisis, then crack down on the citizenry's right to protest the results. Anyone who thinks this can't happen here isn't paying attention.
