French President Nicolas Sarokozy has announced plans to form paramilitary groups to patrol parts of cities, the "banlieu", where large numbers of immigrants live, in a move that has disturbing echoes of Fascist Europe in the 1930s.
Private "citizen" paramilitary groups are supposed to keep „law and order“ in the banlieue. But the decision to set them up ahead of the up ahead of up-coming regional elections will spark fears that will be employed to intimidate political opponents.
Allowing an uregulated armed force to patrol high rise ghettos, blighted by unemployment and poverty and where the residents are disadvanatged by systematic racism, is also sure to create an atrmosphere of intimidation and violence and could ignite large scale social unrest.'
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