Senator Samia Ghali har bedt regeringen om at sætte hæren ind i Marseille. Præsident Hollande og indenrigsminister Manuel Valls nægter og siger, at Frankrig ikke er i krig med ydre fjender. “Hæren ville bare udløse 3 verdenskrig”, siger en borger. Ghali siger i videoen [på Snaphanen (utekstet)] at regeringen ikke forstår situationens alvor, og at politiet er oppe imod militære våben og bander, de ikke magter at afvæbne. Overgangen mellem fred og krig er lang og glidende, åben for fortolkninger og en slagmark for sig selv.
I Parisforstaden Seine-Saint-Denis beder borgmesteren Stéphane Gatignon, tidligere kommunist nu Europe Écologie, i dag om permanent patruljering af CRS, det franske paramilitære sikkerhedspoliti.
In calling for the intervention of the army in Marseilles to put an end to the bloody settling of scores in the city, Samia Ghali, the Socialist senator for the Phocean city echoes the demand, in June 2011, by Stéphane Gatignon, the mayor (EELV) of Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) to send blue helmets to his city to curb the infernal cycle of violence. “The only solution is a 24/7 presence, he declared last year. Until there is a change in the law, we cannot manage this situation. We need peacekeeping forces, blue helmets, like those we send abroad to prevent belligerents killing one another.”
"Otherwise, in a few years, the army will be obligated to intervene ... in reality, this is already the case in France to some extent. When the police and the gendarmes intervene en masse with helicopters, that approximates a paramilitary operation to a significant extent.” Le Figaro via Another French Politician Calls for Deployment of ‘Peacekeepers’ to His District
