PARIS – Tens of thousands of people
have marched in Paris to call for the repeal of a law allowing gay
marriage, six months before France's next presidential election.
The protesters ended up at Trocadero Plaza, near the
Eiffel Tower. Police estimated the crowd at 24,000, while organizers
gave a figure of 200,000.
They were also protesting Sunday against the use of
assisted reproduction techniques and surrogate mothers to help same-sex
couples have babies.
Assisted reproduction is allowed in France only for infertile heterosexual couples and surrogacy is banned.
The group organizing the march presents itself as
promoting the traditional family model of "one mother and one father."
It hopes to influence the debate before the presidential election next
year.
None of the major candidates in the election attended the march.
A small group of bare-breasted Femen demonstrators
briefly showed up Sunday during the march to protest against what they
call "homophobia." The half-dozen Femen protesters were removed by
police.
The 2013 law allowing gay marriage exposed deep divisions in French society, prompting big protests for and against such unions.
PARIS 2016: Scenes from the Apocalypse - African Mass Immigration ruins Streets of France
The Paris you know or remember from adverts or brochures no longer
exists. While no part of Paris looks like the romantic Cliches in
Hollywood movies, some districts do resemble post-apocalyptic scenes of a
dystopian thriller.
This footage, taken with a hidden camera by
an anonymous Frenchman in the Avenue de Flandres, 19th Arrondissement,
near the Stalingrad Metro Station in Paris as well as areas in close
proximity, shows the devastating effects of uncontrolled illegal mass
immigration of young African males into Europe. I compiled the clips and
used some fitting music.
If it weren't for the somewhat working
infrastructure, the scene might as well have been the setting of movie
shooting - or a slum in Mogadishu. The streets are littered in garbage,
the sidewalks are blocked with trash, junk and mattresses, thousands of
African men claim the streets as their own - they sleep and live in
tents like homeless people.
If no portable toilets are in reach,
open urination and defecation are commonplace. Tens of thousands of
homeless Illegal immigrants, undocumented or waiting for a decision of
their asylum application, waste away trying to pass the time in the
city. Although their prospects of being granted asylum as Africans are
bleak, they're hoping for a decision that would grant them an apartment,
welfare and make France their new home.
The conditions are
absolutely devastating. The police have given up trying to control these
areas, the remaining French people avoid the areas at all cost, crime
and rape is rampant, just recently mass brawls and riots made the news
as fights broke out near the Stalingrad metro station.
If current
trends continue and the French become minority in their own capital in
even more areas, scenes like this might spread to areas frequented by
tourists, forever changing the last romantic parts of Paris that match
what most people have in mind when they think of the iconic city.
