“Why is the state the enemy? And why do bystanders applaud?” Carl Devos about street violence on New Year’s Eve

“The state is the enemy,” political scientist Carl Devos noted after the riots on New Year’s Eve. Despite big words in coalition agreements about safety and zero tolerance, those promises were “dead letters” on December 31, he writes. “Apparently the assembled authorities are not succeeding in preventing this annual battle for the streets.”

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