Burning cars is rather typically French. The last two weeks have been unusual, but it is more common than people realize. |
It was based on the idea that the Jews are wealthy and that if the boy doesn't pay, the community will. |
the decline -- perhaps historic -- of the so-called French model of republican integration. |
The engine wasn't anti-Semitism, but the fuel certainly was. |
The events mark a failure and perhaps the decline of the French model of integration [of its immigrants]. It is not working any more, and needs at least reform, if not replacement. |