Call me Faro

Nidra Poller, City Journal, via RCP, on events in Paris:

On the last Sunday of May, 30 angry black men stormed into the heart of the old Jewish quarter, terrorizing residents, shopkeepers, and Sunday strollers. The self-styled militia of the Ka Tribe, a black separatist group originally connected to the no-longer funny black comic Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, embodied the worst fears of a Jewish community exposed, since January 2006, to a new rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

The college-educated leader of the group, Kemi Saba, calls himself Faro (pharaoh). French police came late, questioned a few, and let them all go.

This latest incursion comes a few weeks after the Ka Tribe terrorized kids in a gym learning Israeli-style martial arts, and after beating mourners at a memorial for the murdered Ilan Halimi. Also here. Interior Minister Sarkozy, who will probably run against Dominique de Villepin to replace President Chirac, is a son of immigrants. He has been threatened himself by the Ka and came to the neighborhood:

Outside the ORT school, where the minister met with residents, a dapper gray-haired shop owner said, with dignified regret, “It’s over for Jews in France.” And added, “The police told me . . . they said it’s over for us . . . they can’t handle this problem. . . . It’s too late.”

It's up to France.