“With security ramped up for the campaign, French police arrested two suspected radicals Tuesday in the southern port city of Marseille and thwarted an attack planned for the coming days, “on the eve of the French presidential election,” the interior minister said. He gave no details, and it is unclear whether the attack could have targeted a campaign event”
Anyone who doesn’t see this a a heavy-handed move by the “security forces” to tip the election is deluded. This is their version of the “Oct. Surprise” by James Comey, a blatant move to put a thumb (jack-booted foot actually) on the scales of the election and tip it to the candidate who will triple their funding and increase their anti-democratic powers by several orders of magnitude. It is well known in France that the “security forces” are heavily anti-muslim (and anti-semitic) and want a free hand to crush any opposition to their power and influence and goal of “keeping France Pure”.
Fascist is not an exaggeration in this case as they want their own version of the Gestapo to “cleanse” France of all “non-French” influences.
This is a dangerous precedent and will probably work beautifully.
Fear is a powerful ally of the Fascist.
This happened in Paris, eh? That’s weird; I thought the Reichstag was in Germany.