My 2.5 year-old daughter has not had a single night of normal sleep ever since the 16th of July this year, when the interior ministry misused the French secret police to terrorize my family, most likely for personal gain. During the day she clings to her mother as if her life depends on it, and in the evening Marie spends at least an hour, and some times as much as three or even four hours, in order to make her sleep. My daugther is all of a sudden afraid of the dark. Afraid to be alone. Afraid to sleep in her bed. Afraid to be away from her mother. She wakes up often and for nothing, and starts to cry. She also talks about how the police tried to “destroy our home” (as she puts it), when they shoot our front door open and forced their way in – for no good reason whatsoever.
A few weeks ago my now 6 year-old son started to cry when I talked outside the house to a journalist working for a Russian website, and he eventually became hysterical, because he thought it was the police and that they were going to take me away again.
One night when there was a hailstorm all three of our children woke up, screaming and crying, because they thought it was the police, who was here to arrest their parents again.
Naturally this is nothing comparred to what the children of many others have to endure; the children of the many Frenchmen living in the suburbs often (!) experience that “youth” harass, rob, stab and rape their parents, break into their homes, burn their cars and smash their furniture. There is no police there to protect them. They are banned from entering. No firefighters or medical workers either. They are all chased away by the “youth” – some times at gunpoint.
The “youth” of France
Maybe, Mr. Valls, you should use the secret police, and other police forces too, to help the Frenchmen living in these horrible suburbs, instead of making them terrorise innocent families living peacefully in the countryside, and instead of making them spend their days at work writing speeding tickets, in an attempt to make motorists pay even more to minimize the deficits of the nation’s budget? (But you can afford to attack Syria, it seems…)
Policemen here in Europe, and at least in Western and Northern Europe, are almost always good, brave, just and self-sacrificial in their duty, and they pretty much all became policemen to do good, to help others, to protect their communities and I think also to be looked up to. They do what the knights did in the Middle Ages, what the King’s Guardsmen did in the Pagan past. They want to be allowed to do what policemen are supposed to do. Why don’t you let them?
My daughter is still not sleeping, at 00:22, and she is lying on the floor, on a carpet, next to her mother, doing her best not to fall asleep. She refuses to lie in her bed, or in our bed. She wants to be with her mother. She is afraid. Like so many European children are today, because of politicians who misuse their power because they have a special agenda of their own – in absolute conflict with the interests of the European peoples.
I know the police, and the army too, is between a rock and a hard place, and I understand that things have to become even worse before they do something about this, but I believe that they will serve justice when the time comes, when the time is right, and they will because of that again be looked upon by us all as the good guys, as knights, as heroes. HailaR WôðanaR!
The police in spirit
