Hundreds of cars were torched, shops were looted and numerous police officers were injured. France turned into a battlefield after their World Cup win. What’s going on?

We’ve asked it one of our most respected journalists, Abdelhamid Kaddour, who lives in France.

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What is the reason of the riots, could you analyse it? What is happening to the country?

“We have a lot of ‘unassimilated immigration’ and a lot of very young persons who grew up in families where the father isn’t here (it’s typical in African families), plus the rap culture (which is huge especially in the suburb) and you mix that with Islam”

“They are looking for opportunities to unleash hell, everybody seems to forget it but it was maybe worse back in 2013 when Paris Saint Germain [A French football club] won the title”

“And the governments are always very scared to be accused of racism, so their n°1 priority is to not have any deaths during the riots, we also have a judiciary system where even though you murder someone, you have big chances to not do any jail time.”

What’s Islam’s influence?

“Every Muslim knows the basics of Islam: Hate your host country, because maybe it had a colonial past, hate Jews and Christians and if a girl isn’t properly dressed you can do whatever you like to her.”

“When the top two best-selling books of the last decades are books speaking of a coming civil war and about France becoming an Islamic Caliphate (Eric Zemmour’s ‘Le suicide Français’ and Michel Houllebecq’s ‘Soumission’), this is a bad sign.”