• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Don’t know specifically about the UK, but in France there are definitely no go areas in Paris, Marseille and Montpellier. You can look them up. Paris has the 19e arrondissement, Marseille has the 16e for example.

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        5 months ago

        When’s the last time you actually went to France? Or spoken with someone who lives there?

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            5 months ago

            My friend. I go to France every year. I usually land in Marseille to go visit my in laws.

            Two years ago I took a wrong turn and ended up in a car jacking situation. My GPS told me to go through some apartment building parking at night. There were a couple of watchers who gave a signal to a group who had laid down grocery carts up make a barrage. I had to gun it to go around before they closed it. And when I reached the exit of the parking just on the other side, we got cut off by a black Mercedes that blocked the exit. I had to drive over a curb as the group was surrounding our car.

            I fucking experienced it.

            My in-laws tell me about how they’re scared to go out at night in their town in Valence.

            Friends living near Marseille who worked there specifically told us not to visit without them as guides or else it would be too dangerous.

            My co workers are practically all French expats from Paris who moved to Quebec in the past 5-10 years and they’ve told me themselves how much of a shit show it has become.

            So you can believe what you want. But I’ve actually been there and know people from there and what I’m saying is from their accounts. Not from some news channel in the US.

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              5 months ago

              You were talking about “no go zones” where women are supposedly attacked for not covering their heads in Paris. Now you’re describing some random attempted robbery in Marseille. Those are 100% not the same, unless the carjackers had an ISIS flag or something.

              I think you need therapy for PTSD or something. Your experience might be affecting your judgement.

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                5 months ago

                I’m still talking about those zones.

                They were Muslims. There were a couple of girls in the group at the barrage that had the full garb. They yelled at each other in Arabic.

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                  5 months ago

                  Ok man, whatever. Conveniently everyone in your story agrees with you. I’m sure they all clapped as you escaped dramatically.