The Great Replacement: French and Italian Perspectives

The videos below, one from France and one from Italy, approach the issue of the Great Replacement from two very different angles.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

The first video is a report from Champigny-sur-Marne, an extremely culturally enriched suburb to the southeast of Paris. Two ethnic French visitors talked to local residents, and were rebuked by a Muslim for videotaping near a mosque without permission:

Francesco Lollobrigida is a member of Fratelli d’Italia, and serves as Minister of Agriculture in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Mr. Lollobrigida got himself into a heap o’ trouble at a conference yesterday when he made remarks about the Great Replacement. Discussion of such matters was already a no-no, and became doubleplus ungood after the Christchurch massacre in 2019.

Needless to say, the global media snoids came down on Mr. Lollobrigida like a ton of bricks (see, for example, this BBC article). Here’s what got him into so much trouble:

Video transcript #1:

00:01   You bastard! What are you doing? What are you filming?
00:04   What are you filming? What are you doing here?
00:28   Good evening, everybody. Today we are in Champigny.
00:31   We’re with Stéphanie. We’ve been contacted because of a mosque
00:34   which is disturbing the local residents.
00:37   They’re totally exasperated, so we’re going to meet them.
00:40   And we’ll try to show you what’s really going on in Champigny.
00:43   Let’s give the floor to Stéphanie. Champigny has 75,000 inhabitants, which is many people.
00:48   It has a police station called “Bois l’Abbé”, which is well-known, since it is regularly attacked
00:52   with mortar fire. There are three mosques, which is a lot.
00:56   And during the time of Ramadan three mosques don’t suffice,
00:59   so a fourth mosque, a temporary one, is opened, which is situated on the field
01:02   within a business area, and has an extremely remarkable flow of Muslim people,
01:06   and above all, evening prayers recited at inappropriate hours.
01:10   So the local residents complain, while the town hall does nothing. And the police
01:14   can’t even intervene, because the mayor is the only one who can order them to intervene.
01:19   So we from the Reconquête Party have been solicited and contacted
01:23   by people here who tell us “it’s a catastrophe,”
01:26   “nothing changes”, “how can you help us out?”.
01:29   So we are here to show you what’s going on in Champigny. It deals with the Great Replacement here.
01:34   It deals with Islamism at any level.
01:37   And it’s unbearable. And the town hall won’t do anything.
01:41   So we have come to explain to you all what’s going on here,
01:44   and to raise a red flag, once again.
01:48   How long have you been a Champigny citizen? —I have been living in Champigny for twenty years.
01:52   It has always been a nice place. It’s a pretty nice city.
01:57   We have seen some migrants settle down — they were Portuguese mostly — something like 20 years ago.
02:02   Well, they integrated very quickly. It was a situation we got along with;
02:06   they were Catholics. And above all, we had no worries back then.
02:10   And then, well… here it is. Can you hear that?
02:14   They [Muslims] have been living here for fifteen, ten years and it’s getting worse and worse.
02:18   This is not our homeland any more.
02:22   I am here with a second witness.
02:25   Could you tell us about the situation you have been living through lately, sir?
02:29   It has been very exhausting in the last fifteen days,
02:33   because they play such music all night, as you can hear.
02:37   Yes. —Everyone has talked about this for years,
02:40   about the police station “Bois L’Abbé” being attacked…
02:44   And now there is a fourth mosque, which is being established here, in Champigny.
02:50   It’s becoming too much.
02:55   You bastard! What are you doing here? What are you filming?
02:59   What are you doing here? What are you doing next to the mosque?
03:03   Isn’t it our right? —Go away, go away!
03:06   We should be going, then?
03:09   Yes!
03:22   Good evening, sir. Thank you for welcoming us. What are your feelings
03:27   about this temporary mosque which is just 100 meters away from your house? —It’s a Hell.
03:32   And when I talk to my neighbors about it, because many of us have nothing against Muslims,
03:36   basically, and I am not a racist, and neither are my neighbors.
03:41   But that mosque and that call to prayer, that tune,
03:45   it’s become a Hell. I’d rather live in Paris-Orly, under the planes.
03:53   Sir, according to you, Champigny can be defined as a lost territory of the Republic.
03:58   I have been living in Champigny for thirty years. I would have never imagined
04:02   that someday we would speak of “lost territory of the Republic”.
04:05   In my opinion, it’s no longer the city it was thirty years ago.
04:10   I never go out without my dogs lately,
04:13   because I can be attacked, which already happened.
04:17   From now on, because of my age, I cannot afford to take such risk,
04:23   so I won’t go out, unless I have my dogs. When I go shopping, I intend…
04:26   Even in broad daylight? —No, not in daylight.
04:29   When there are bunches of young men, left to themselves,
04:33   who are supposed to be taken care of by the French state, by the regions, by the departments,
04:39   and then you find them again on the streets, on sidewalks, in the subway,
04:43   and if they are ten, fifteen,
04:46   I won’t take such a risk. If it’s me, it’s no big deal.
04:50   If it’s children, it’s a much more serious risk. About the “Great Replacement” and safety…
04:54   Well, yes, the Great Replacement is not something abstract.
04:59   It’s very concrete when one lives in Champigny-sur-Marne.
05:02   So, as soon as you realize you are a foreigner in your own neighborhood,
05:08   or in your own city, because I am relatively safe, since I live in a pavilion area.
05:13   So, not really, there. But as for the city center, the most urbanized zones,
05:18   well, I don’t feel safe anymore there.
05:21   I am concerned, especially about children.
05:37   Are you a student? How old are you?
05:40   I am 22 years old. Generally, women cannot go for a walk all alone, after a certain hour.
05:45   Because it’s very dangerous. You can encounter men, people who are intolerant,
05:53   and who think that it’s completely normal to harass or rape a woman,
05:59   because you aren’t supposed to wear a skirt which is a bit too short.
06:02   So it totally legitimizes people to harass anyone.
06:05   So you don’t go out any more? —No. After a certain hour, not any more.
06:09   Not all alone. —We are listening to the surahs, right now.
06:13   Here they are. You see? That happens every evening.
06:16   And that’s intolerable! We are in France, here. And sooner or later
06:19   we will have to make them stop, because the state is secular.
06:22   And we cannot stand all that, every evening, every day for a month.
06:25   If they did it privately, perhaps, but one can’t tolerate all that in a public space.
06:29   Because if any religion, other than Islam, did it, the police would immediately intervene.
06:35   That’s intolerable. They are so loud, we can hear them from here.
06:39   You live how many meters away from it? —At least 500 meters away.
06:42   Really? —Well, I wonder whether you can hear it from your house, they are so loud.
06:49   To be honest, the entire community knows that you can hear that at the same intensity, whether
06:53   you are in your living room, or you are in front of the mosque.
 

Video transcript #2:

00:00   As for births, the birth rate is not boosted by convincing people to stay home more,
00:08   as someone has stated, claiming that’s how relationships are intensified.
00:13   That’s not the solution. The solution is to create a welfare state
00:17   that enables people both to work and to raise a family.
00:20   The solution is to help young couples find employment.
00:23   The solution is to enable everyone to read data which reveal
00:27   that demographic growth and better state aid work side by side,
00:32   even within our national territory. In the regions with fewer welfare programs,
00:37   a more significant demographic collapse is reported, than in other regions.
00:41   We cannot yield to the idea of ethnic replacement.
00:45   The ethnic replacement means: Italians have fewer children, so we replace them with someone else.
00:50   That’s not the solution.
00:53   I consider, and I will deal with this topic, that immigration is a natural, physical fact.
01:00   I am an immigrant’s grandchild. And I am careful not to believe
01:05   that emigration and immigration are a problem.
01:10   Quite the opposite: they can become an opportunity for a nation’s economic growth.
01:15   If there is demand for workers, when the internal workforce runs out,
01:19   you will have to rely on a workforce that comes from other countries, too.
01:25   But we need to clarify that the first enemy of legal immigration,
01:29   put into action with organized flows of people,
01:33   is illegal, clandestine immigration.
01:37   This is the path undertaken so far, and one we are trying to change.
01:45   How? By trying to contain the major flows of migrants.
01:48   Less illegal, clandestine immigration,
01:52   more regular flows, organized on a triennial basis,
01:56   where migrants can be easily integrated,
01:59   also thanks to bilateral or multilateral agreements with the countries of origin.
02:04   These countries ask us to train the people who come here to work, to build,
02:10   and possibly to become Italians, in the future.
 

2 thoughts on “The Great Replacement: French and Italian Perspectives

  1. “…. to become Italians,…”. One does not become Italian, one is born Italian, it is by blood. If a different race takes over Italy because it has become Italian, then, it is no longer Italy. Wake-up, we are being exterminated.

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