Is the ‘Fifth Republic’ on the Verge of Collapse?

By: Kayhan Int’l

For at least the past five years, since the Yellow Vests poured in tens of thousands on the streets of Paris and other cities on 17th November 2018, France has been in the grip of mass nationwide protests against the injustices prevailing in society that at its peak reached three million people.
Now according to the latest reports following the police killing of a French citizen of North African origin, the latest round of public protests have intensified in the capital and several other cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, and Strasbourg, making the beleaguered regime of Immanuel Macron to deploy some 45,000 security forces and randomly arrest at least a thousand people.
Does this mean a popular uprising is sweeping across France with the aim of overthrowing the current ‘Fifth Republic’ system of government established on 4th October 1958 by the World War 2 victorious general, President Charles de Gaulle?
Or should the violent protests be simply called riots by disgruntled masses fed up with rising inflation and the paltry pension the retirees receive because of Macron’s refusal to raise allowances despite the order of the Supreme Court to remove public grievances?
According to analysts keenly following events in France as well as the erratic policies of the regime at home including Islamophobia, and its meddling in the affairs of other countries such as the Francophone states of sub-Saharan Africa, support for the terrorists in Syria, and providing asylum to the murderous MKO hypocrites which have the innocent blood of at least 17,000 Iranians on their heads, the regime in Paris faces an uncertain future.
Macron has cancelled his visit to Germany in the wake of the violent protests of the past few days that have resulted in 79 police officers being wounded, 1,500 cars set on fire, 234 buildings burnt or damaged and 2,560 cases of fire on the streets.
The point is that whatever is happening in France, whether one should call vandalism or justified violence, one thing is crystal clear: The Islamic Republic of Iran is not involved in any way in the unrest in France, neither by providing paychecks to any of the protestor groups nor indulging in media propaganda against Macron.
This is in stark contrast to the Paris regime, which last year, along with the US, Germany, Britain, the illegal Zionist entity, and certain Arab states, hired a few dozen thugs, traitors, terrorists, blasphemers, and women of loose character in Iran in a bid to depict the isolated incidents of riots in some localities of Tehran and parts of a few other cities, as mass uprising against the popular Islamic Republic system of government.
In other words, France and the West, as part of their inherent hostility towards the Islamic Republic tried to blow up out of proportion the isolated riots in Iran through their media networks, even when they fully know that the hypocrites, thugs, traitors, terrorists, blasphemers, wayward women, and all other minions cannot do any harm to the people of Iran.
To sum up, in Iran millions of patriotic and pious people poured into the streets including Hijab-clad women, to express support for the popular Islamic system of government and the leadership, while in France no such mass public support is visible for the ‘Fifth Republic’.