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Every year huge crowds gather in Paris at the Champs-Élysées to ring in the new year with fireworks and concerts. Much like the New Year’s Eve parties in Times Square in New York City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come.
No more.
New Year’s has been canceled in Paris. The New Year’s Eve concert was pre-recorded with actors pretending to be the audience. The fireworks will appear on TV. And there will be no one to count the countdown because the Champs-Élysées has become France’s latest ‘no-go’zone’.
Ten years ago, Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris had threatened to sue FOX News for correctly reporting that there were ‘no-go-zones’ in Paris. “The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honour of Paris has been prejudiced,” she fumed.
Now, Mayor Hidalgo decided that even with the 6,000 police officers that had been deployed to secure the Paris event last year, the Champs-Élysées could not be protected against Islam.
It began when Interior Minister Laurent Nunez warned that there was a “very high” terrorist threat aimed at Christmas. “Christmas markets are targets of terrorist organizations,” he revealed and cited the previous Strasbourg Christmas market attack in which an Algerian Muslim terrorist with 27 previous convictions had opened fire, killing 5 people and wounding 11 more, and the Berlin Christmas market attack in which a Tunisian Muslim refugee drove a truck into the market killing 11 and wounding 56 people as examples of possible incoming attacks.
Already this year a stolen gun and ammo were found stashed in a flower pot at the children’s section of the Strasbourg Christmas market. The weapon may have been cached to avoid the ‘bag checks’ that have become commonplace there and at European festivals and events.
New Year’s Eve at the Champs-Élysées, which was already utilizing bag checks and pat-downs to screen for not only weapons but any alcohol, glass bottles and anything that could be used as a weapon, was canceled because the authorities and the police could not assure the safety of the celebrants in the most iconic spot in all of France. The place where General DeGaulle had once walked down to celebrate France’s liberation has fallen under Islamic occupation.
France recently marked the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Paris attacks during which Islamic terrorists tried to blow up a soccer stadium, massacred people in the Bataclan theater and attacked local cafes in an orgy of bloodshed killing 130 people and wounding over 400 more.
“Unfortunately, no one can guarantee the end of attacks,” President Macron warned at the commemoration of one of the deadliest days for Islamic Jihad in Europe since the original Ottoman invasions, but claimed that 85 attacks had been prevented including 6 in 2025.
(That count is probably up to 7 since yet another terror plot was broken up in December.)
Muslims marked the anniversary in their own fashion when the girlfriend of one of the imprisoned Islamic terrorists, a French woman who had converted to Islam, was arrested for her own terrorist plot along with her current husband and an unknown teenager.
Another three women had been arrested a few months earlier for planning their tribute to the Bataclan theater attack by bombing a concert hall or a bar. One of the women had been preaching Jihad to her 20,000 followers on TikTok. These should not be confused with the previous plot by three Muslim women to set off a bomb outside the Notre Dame cathedral.
The Bataclan attacks were not the only 10 year anniversary being marked in France.
In response to the latest Muslim terrorist threat to Christmas, France is once again calling in the troops and Interior Minister Nunez urged “the military personnel of Operation Sentinelle, to ensure a ‘visible and deterrent presence.’” Operation Sentinelle was launched in 2015 after the Muslim terrorist attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Kosher supermarket in which 17 people were killed by a conspiracy of 14 Muslims operating inside and outside France.
The 7,000 soldiers of Operation Sentinelle (which can be increased by another 3,000 soldiers around Christmas or during other times of significant Islamic terrorist threats) have been permanently deployed across France to protect “places of worship and sensitive sites.”
The deployment, originally meant to be short term, has become open ended. The French Ministry of Defense quotes that “our commitment is long-term, for as long as this situation requires.” Minister of the Armed Forces Catherine Vautrin echoed the message, “the terrorist threat is permanent.” Macron had already admitted this is a war with no end in sight.
Shortly after the Bataclan anniversary, Macron announced that France was bringing back voluntary conscription starting with 3,000 in 2026 and going up to 50,000 by 2035. “We need to mobilise, mobilising the nation to defend itself,” he argued. Officially this is about countering Russia, but if so the mobilization would be far more rapid and much more immediate.
France is preparing for a war at home.
National anti-terror prosecutor Olivier Christen warned that Islamic terrorism remains “the most significant, both in scale and in the level of operational readiness”.
Meanwhile the French government is grappling with Islamization.
After announcing 820 Islamization ‘separatist’ offenses against France’s official ‘secularism’ policy, Interior Minister Nunez warned that the next step was battling Islamic infiltration.
“We’ve dealt with terrorism, we’ve dealt with separatism, now we’re tackling infiltration,” Nunez warned, and looking into “the links between representatives of political movements and organizations and networks supporting terrorist activity or propagating Islamist ideology.”
“It is important to provide a clear, concise, and precise response to those who might suggest that Sharia law could be applied in France.”
These are praiseworthy policies at a time when the politicians of the United Kingdom and the United States have mostly surrendered to Islamization and hail it as a wonderful thing, but the soldiers in the streets, the cancellation of New Year’s Eve at the Champs-Élysées and the drumbeat of terrorist plots also show that fighting Islam as an ideology is not enough without dealing with the demographic problems of mass migration and domestic colonization.
81 years after De Gaulle walked along the Champs-Élysées to Notre Dame to mark the liberation of Paris, the city, including the Champs-Élysées, is under enemy occupation again.
It will take another liberation to end the ‘no-go-zones’ and set Paris free or the city will fall.
