Valls: There is “a territorial apartheid, social, ethnic” in France – Le Point

Valls: There is "a territorial apartheid, social, ethnic" in France – Le Point

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday it existed in France “territorial apartheid, social, ethnic.” “In recent days highlighted many of the ills that plague our country and the challenges we face. To this must be added all fractures, tensions simmering for too long and that we speak only intermittently” a- he said in his greeting to the press. “After we forget, this is how … The 2005 riots, now remembers, and yet … The scars are still there,” he added.

Manuel Valls stressed “the peri-urban relegation ghettos – which I mentioned already in 2005 – a territorial apartheid, social, ethnic, which was imposed on our country.” He also spoke of “social misery” that “add up the daily discrimination because it has the wrong name, the right color, or because one is a woman” . “It is in any case, you know me, to look for the slightest excuse, but we must also look at the reality of our country,” added the head of government emphasizing “the collective fear of the mass unemployment, in long-term unemployment, youth unemployment, facing the too expensive life at the risk of decline, the anguish of the individual decommissioning that grows inward, to the anguish of parents for their children’s future . “