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Chefen for det franske generaldirektorat for intern sikkerhed, Patrick Calvar advarer om, at landet er "på randen af en borgerkrig" på grund af indstrømningen af islamiske immigranter efterfulgt af en bølge af skrækkelige terrorangreb. Den franske præsident Francois Hollande møder hård kritik for sin slappe reaktion overfor den voksende bølge af islamiske immigranter og terrorismens rædsler, som er fulgt efter, og som ikke blot har ledt til en ny vækst hos landets yderste højrefløjsnationalister, men også ledende medlemmer af hans eget kabinet spørger om, hvorvidt han overser Frankrigs bevægelse mod en blodig borgerkrig.
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Det var advarslen givet af nationens øverste sikkerhedsembedsmand, Patrick Calvar, i kølvandet på terrorangrebet i Nice, som efterlod 84 døde med over 300 andre sårede, da den Tunesisk fødte Daesh terrorist Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhel kørte en 19 tons lastbil ind i en hob mennesker, der fejrede Bastille Dagen - landets nationaldag for uafhængighed og frihed, der markerede den franske revolution.

Dog er det ikke første gang, at Calvar er kommet med dystre udsigter for Frankrigs fremtid. Snarere har sikkerhedsembedsmanden vist sig at være ret forudseende ved at give den samme advarsel til det franske parlament den 12. juli 2015 - måneder før Charlie Hebdo skydningen, men længe før rædsler sænkede sig over Bataclan Teatret i Paris den 13. november, 2015 og i byen Nice i sidste uge.


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In May 2016, the country's leading security official once again cautioned the French Parliament's commission on national defense saying that "Europe is in danger - Extremism is on the rise everywhere, and we are now turning our attention to some far-right movements who are preparing a confrontation."

The confrontation that he warned of was what he first called "intercommunity confrontations" which he later explained was a politically correct way of saying that the far-right is ramping up for a full-fledged "war against Muslims." He cautioned that "one or two more terror attacks and we may well see a civil war."

In February 2016, Calvar explained before a senate commission in charge of intelligence information that "We are looking now at far-right extremists who are just waiting for more terrorist attacks to engage in violent confrontation."

Perhaps the people that Calvar has attempted in despair to jolt into action need look only as far as recent presidential polling which shows the far-right Nationalist Front leader Marine Le Pen, daughter of the much more bombastic and bigoted Jean-Marie Le Pen, leading all presidential candidates by a healthy margin scoring 28% of the popular vote while former President Nicolas Sarkozy could only must 21% of the vote and the nearly helpless Francois Hollande received support from 14% of the electorate while boasting a historically bad 10% approval rating.

Those results were long before terror once again visited the country - this time in France - but shows a growing resentment among the population for the open borders of the European Union's Schengen agreement in addition to distrust of the unelected cabal that rules the country from Brussels, Belgium - the European Commission.

In response to the growing far-right sentiments, Marine Le Pen's fervent far-right nationalism may be the least of France's problems with Francois Hollande pouring kerosene over a lit match by his reticence to identify the scourge of terrorism as a phenomenon seen among Muslim groups and his refusal to shutdown hardline Salafist mosques. Le Pen, by contrast, would look to escape the European Union's porous borders and while potentially emboldening bigots, she would not pretend the house wasn't on fire.

Perhaps Patrick Calvar's warnings are too late - or perhaps they were never heard at all.