Life Under French Immigration Policy

Michel Gurfinkiel on the decline of the urban French projects:

Most French suburban public housing was originally designed by talented architects, and could have developed into pleasant neighborhoods. Mass immigration had an adverse effect on them, however, and turned them into either North African or black African ghettoes (an estimated 15 percent of the overall French population–one quarter of the population under 20–is now non-European and non-Judeo-Christian). Ethnic criminal gangs took over, as often happens under such circumstances: They forced the last native French or European inhabitants out, and made it increasingly difficult for the police to enter and monitor the projects.

The indirect result?:

…the bus was driving the same road back and stopped again at Cité des Lilas. Two of the boys got on by the rear entrance, sprinkled gasoline, and set it alight. The horrified passengers rushed out. Somehow, Galledou’s clothes caught fire. According to one witness, “it was as if someone peeled her skin with an invisible knife: from a black woman she was turning into a white one.” At the local hospital, they reported burns over 62 percent of her body. She remains in a coma, fighting to survive.