How easy it is to humiliate France

We all have a bad day. Although a bad day for a Literature teacher at an Orihuela high school is not the same as a bad day for an Airbus-A330 pilot doing the Madrid-New York route. The consequences are different. Although some subscribe to promoting crooked days as if they were their only manna. I say it for Emmanuel Macron who hasn’t had a good day in a long time. I don’t know if his is a reflection of the situation in France, or the other way around, if Macron transmits to “France” its impoverished capacity for governance and execution. The truth is that our neighbors to the north are not lifting their heads.

Then there are those on the opposite sidewalk, those who have a good day, a good day, like the thugs on the street. Louvre, which in seven!! minutes “cleaned” the crown jewels. They stole eight pieces from the collection of French imperial jewelry displayed in the museum’s Apollo Gallery and valued at tens of millions of euros on the black market. This type of theft happens to be part of the collection of “stained” treasuresand according to jewelry experts, their value is much higher if they are sold intact, rather than broken into parts.

Let’s not forget, that in this treacherous world there are people for everythingincluding those rich, capricious and unscrupulous buyers who do not deprive themselves of anything, and who They break the laws like someone who jumps a zebra crossing. Then there are those who seek to launder the profits of drug trafficking, applying the double bastard theory: “from lost to the river” and “traffickers gain a troubled river”.

“White-collar criminals always inspire a certain indulgence for their intelligent way of stealing with great skill and without violence”

It’s not that I have any sympathy for thieves, quite the opposite, but the criminals white gloves always inspire a certain indulgence for his intelligent way of stealing with great skill and without violence. Who would think of breaking in on a Sunday at ten in the morning with a mechanical crane in the Louvre museum, in the presence of dozens of visitors. To do something like this you have to be very professional, know the terrain and have nerves of steel; not like that other crook who was arrested months ago after robbing a grocery store. appliance and leaving your ID on the floor.

The ‘calling card’ of these other yellow vest thieves seems announce that we are dealing with specialists, and this entails great difficulty when it comes to recovering what was stolen. Experts in this type of theft warn that if the jewelry is not located between 24 and 48 hoursit is likely that they will not be located again.

“What happened at the Louvre is not a catastrophe, but it could be a clear symptom of serious decline”

If I were French, which I am not although I admire their cheeses and some other gastronomic whims, at this time I would be indignant, not to say angry, to see that I have a Government that is not capable of protecting the common heritage, and consequently to society in general. The problem for these Governments is that today they not only have to be effective, strong and decisive, but they must also appear to be so. I am talking about the responsible image of a State and its Executive, I am not talking about cheap and insolvent projected by populist politicians.

France continues to do very badly in many aspects, its debt remains out of control, prime ministers drop like flies every time who try to stop spending, Sébastien Lecornu – after his emergency return – fails to form a government, essential economic measures are postponed, Macron refuses to call elections, etc.

Those in power like to convey the feeling of security, that everything is under control, even if it is false. That appearance of security is pure papier-mâché strategy, and the French know it, they know that the Fifth Republic has feet of clay if the big mistakes are not corrected of the past and the present. What happened at the Louvre is not a catastrophe, but it could be a clear symptom of serious decline.