Although the verbal abuse isn’t especially new to football, they do, perhaps, reflect the stark and seemingly ever-widening divide in multicultural France.
Amidst talk of a victory for Muslims in general, vulgar ethnic resentment against Europeans on the part of rioters can pretend to stem from a principled opposition to secular, liberal postmodernity.
Membership, current or past, of the EU Parliament’s ‘Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats’ group appears to be the shared trait among most of the five suspects.
Brussels witnessed fireworks raining down on its streets, as some among the Moroccan supporters began throwing rocks at police officers. Some of the fireworks were even discharged horizontally, used as projectiles.
Ruud Koopmans, a Dutch sociologist, professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and researcher on migration, social integration, and transnationalization said many of the rioters “grew up in a culture of hatred of the West.”
“Politics have allowed such parallel societies to form; an unbridled immigration policy combined with lavish social benefits and a lack of self-assertion on the part of locals has provoked such conditions,” MEP Kuhs said.
