One might say about France today, Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. In English, of course, that's "The more things change, the more they stay the same." France is now struggling under an invasion, waves of unchecked, unscreened immigration from the largely Muslim nations of the Middle East and North Africa. The French government has aided and abetted in this invasion, and things may be coming to a historic turning point. 

Jonathan Miller lives in the south of France, and has a pretty good bead on what's going on there right now - and he's worried about the increasing possibility of a civil war.

As I stood in the queue at the fishmonger on the town square close to my home in the South of France yesterday, he was cutting the head off a sea bream with deft strokes of his razor-sharp knife.

‘You French have always been rather good at decapitation,’ I said, gesturing towards a spot outside the post office, where the town guillotine had stood in an earlier era. Nobody laughed. ‘They should bring the guillotine back,’ said the fishmonger. ‘We need it more than ever.’ He wasn’t joking and other customers nodded vigorously.

Like me, they’d spent much of the weekend watching news of the violence that broke out in Paris on Saturday night before spreading pretty much the length and breadth of the country. The riots began after Paris Saint-Germain crushed Inter Milan 5-0 in the Champions League final. Before the game had ended, mobs were attacking police and setting fires on the Champs Elysees, with 264 cars torched.

One young man who was hit by a car died shortly afterwards. Rioters, including some waving Algerian and Palestinian flags, attacked the flagship Chanel boutique. Police made no fewer than 600 arrests.

The unrest quickly spread beyond Paris. In Normandy, a police officer gravely injured by fireworks was put into a medically-induced coma. A 17-year-old was stabbed to death in Dax in southwestern France.

Note the waving of Algerian and Palestinian flags. That's important. 

My colleague Nick Arama has given us a detailed look at those riots:

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But the problem goes far beyond idiots rioting over a sportsball game. There is a rising threat, and that threat comes from those immigrants mentioned earlier. As Mr. Miller warns us:

The US State Department is now warning of terrorist attacks targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs and public areas.

France’s Vigipirate national security alert system is currently at its highest level, Urgence Attentat.

Translated, that means attacks are considered imminent and the estimated 10 million British tourists expected to holiday here this summer should be on their guard.

Consider what a civil war and the ensuing collapse of France could mean.

Europe now is a much different place than it was in 1940. When I was in Germany in 1996, I took my family on a drive from Heidelberg to Strasbourg, and in so doing simply drove across the Rhine from Germany into France. The border checkpoints were boarded up, closed. A year later I mentioned that to my uncle, who was badly wounded serving in the 101st Airborne in World War 2, and all he could say was, "And we lost so many men crossing that damn river." Why is that relevant?

Because any such conflict won't remain confined to France. Europe's open borders will see to that. It will spread faster than maggots on a carcass. The antagonists are already in place. The United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and most of the Scandinavian nations all have immigrant enclaves, full of people on the dole, who have no intention of assimilating into European cultures. 

Now, there's a little chance for the people outside the cities, at least in France. Mr. Miller points out that rural Frenchmen are perhaps more well-armed than we may think:

At least 80 per cent of adults in my region have permits for guns, mostly used for hunting. In France as a whole, there are an estimated 12.7 million firearms in private hands, both legal and illegal.

Many joining the local gun clubs admit privately that they do this in case the worst happens and their weapons are needed for self-defence.

What will happen to any of those people who use those guns, even in self-defense? There's no Second Amendment in France, there are no Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground laws. It's very likely that these guns won't be used unless the state collapses, and the rioters and, yes, the jihadis, spread out of the cities. And by then, it may be too late.

If there's a way back for Europe, it won't be shown to us by invertebrates like Emmanuel Macron. There is some hope, but it's coming not from France, but Italy:

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France is facing dire times. They have been invaded, again, and the invaders aren't nearly as warm and fuzzy as Nazi Germany. They won't be content with France, either. This virus will spread, and there's no vaccine, at least not one that Europe will be willing to consider. The barbarians are already inside the city walls. If Mr. Miller's fears prove true, the only hope for France is the hope that those rural people he writes of can keep the cities contained and cut off the food supplies - and that, perhaps, some new leadership will come to the fore in France, maybe with a dash more Charles Martel and a little less Marshal Petain.

It's sad, what's happening to Europe. I've spent a fair amount of time in Germany and love that country. I would have liked to have seen Spain and Scotland, Rome and the south of France. But now, I'm thinking that's not such a great idea. I find myself in agreement with Mr. Miller; Europe is on the edge of an explosion, and I don't want to be there when it happens. 

If you're making summer vacation plans, you might consider leaving Europe off the list. We're restricting any international travel to Canada's Yukon Territory (it's right next door, after all) and Japan, for the time being.