LFrance is in the process of feudalization. This is unnatural for a country where public power has been centralized since the second half of the 17th century.e century. Its success depends on the power of the State, which, and this is not a revelation, is weakening.
The Revolution of 1789 would never have been politically victorious if it had not been able to restore public order throughout France. Wherever protests grew, Paris’ repression was merciless. In the Vendée, of course, but also in Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes. These uprisings were not of the same nature, some were federalist, some were Catholic, some were still royalist, but all were harshly suppressed. The country must win at all costs.
Napoleon would continue these efforts by providing centralization with a lasting and effective model of government. To be sure of this, it is enough to think about the role of the prefect.
American underworld, Italian mafia: alarming examples
The answer is that drug trafficking has nothing to do with political revolution. This is wrong. If drug trafficking is worrying, this is precisely because it can turn into sporadic revolutions. We have imagined the worst possibility. The killing of civilians precedes the corruption of police officers, judges, women and politicians, on a small scale of course, but why isn’t the situation worse?
Examples that occur abroad are truly worrying. In the United States, in the 1920s, the mafia took power in several cities. Prohibition is not the only explanation. The underworld prospered due to the collapse of the state, providing a framework and establishing order. This country has not outgrown the American Republic, it has filled its gaps, absorbed its shortcomings. Occupy its territory, and make a country rule within a country. Of course it is criminal and dishonest, but hatred alone is not enough to explain the success of illegal businesses.
In Italy, the Sicilian mafia weakened when the state had the courage to confront it, in the 1980s and 1990s. It was a war in the literal sense, with its warriors, its heroes, but also with its dead, sometimes all three at once. This is the case of judge Giovanni Falcone. After assembling a “collection” of judges brave enough to challenge the godfather of Cosa Nostra, Toto Riina, the judge fell victim to what could best be described as an overtly offensive attack. The Mafia has assassinated representatives of public power, but never in a spectacular way. Judge Cesare Terranova, for example, was executed with a “discreet” bullet to the head while he was in his car. Of course, the crimes were signed, but the simplicity of these methods reflects the inferiority of the mafia, an entity that does not use means of war comparable to those used by public authorities.
To eliminate Judge Falcone, 500 kg of TNT was distributed under a highway in Sicily, with shooters placed at high altitudes, if that was not enough. Waste of deployed means is an act of war, and not merely a crime. However, war was a territory protected by State law, and it was an act too impudent against the Italian government. Toto Riina was arrested in January 1993.
The scourge of the mafia order in Marseille
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The murder of Mehdi Kessaci was not only a warning to his brother, Amine, a known and recognized anti-drug activist, but also a provocation that became a test for the Republic. This was an attack on civil society, a demonstration that, one day, a rudimentary mafia order would rule, the unimaginable in a peaceful society. Condemnation is pointless, and there is no doubt that the justice system and police are doing their job.
These phenomena are not news, but are clear evidence of the replacement of one order with another, the conquest of one entity over another. Stability is an illusion. Civilization is not something natural, but an everyday struggle.
