The Real Problem: A sociological analysis of anti-foreigner racism in France

"On July 30, in Grenoble, Nicolas Sarkozy cried out: “We need to be able to strip French citizenship from any foreign-born person who willfully endangers the life of a policeman or a gendarme.” Brice Hortefeux proposes to generalize this to cases of “serious delinquency,” which opens up a very wide field of application.

First off, let’s condemn a lie: This announcement has nothing to do with the struggle against delinquency. Otherwise, he would have said: 'We need
to be able to strip French citizenship from any person who willfully
endangers the life of policeman or a gendarme, which itself would be a terrible enough statement."

Read the explanation of what all this is really about in L'Humanité-in-English