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0:00Hello everyone. How are you? As you
0:04know in my videos, I like to do this at
0:06the beginning of an introduction.
0:08Imagine a scene. No need to imagine.
0:11You're in the street, imagine what it
0:13looks like, it's noisy, you're
0:15surrounded by shisha pipes and barber
0:18shops, trying out French rap everywhere
0:20, the French trap. On this same street,
0:23there's a sort of crowd around a sign.
0:26And you know this sign. It's called
0:28Tasty Crousty. And there, you tell
0:30yourself, looking at that scene, you
0:32are immersed in that very scene; you
0:34tell yourself you are in the Paris
0:35suburbs, in Banisienne, somewhere
0:37between Bobini and Bagnolet. Except
0:39that's not the case. In reality, you're
0:42not even in France. In reality, you're
0:44not even in Europe. In reality, you're
0:479,500 km from Paris. You're in Pataya,
0:50Thailand. And then, you don't
0:51understand anything anymore. We don't
0:53understand anything anymore. How did we
0:54manage to import the way of life? The
0:57suburbs in the backwater of Southeast
1:00Asia. Well, we succeeded thanks to a
1:03phenomenon, a phenomenon that the Thai
1:06authorities have called French Arabic,
1:08tourists with a French passport but who
1:11are not really French. In any case,
1:14they don't speak like the French. This
1:16is a separate category, uh, of
1:18populations that are so problematic
1:21that, on May 19, 2026, the Thai
1:23government announced the end of the 60-
1:26day visa for French nationals. And a
1:28country that depends on tourism for 10%
1:31of its GDP chooses to restrict access
1:33to this same country. That's very
1:35telling. That's very telling. So today,
1:37we're going to answer a question. A
1:38very simple question. How did Thailand
1:41become the Eldorado of French Arabic?
1:44Why them? Why there and why Thailand, a
1:47country that has never been colonized
1:50by anyone, is teaching us the French
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5:06very dear French Arabs. So, to
5:09understand how this population
5:10destroyed tourism in Thailand, we have
5:13to see why the suburbs chose this
5:15country. Why did the suburbs choose
5:17Thailand? Because in reality, Thailand
5:19didn't wait for the French Arabs to
5:20exist. As you can imagine, it's a
5:22country that has chosen tourism since
5:25the 60s. At least, when I say chosen
5:27tourism, it means that the country's
5:29economy, the Thai economy, was designed
5:32, organized and optimized for this type
5:34of tourism. Let me explain. When we
5:36think of Thailand, we think of islands
5:38like Colanta, we think of the Coconut
5:41Tree, beautiful women and, uh,
5:42sometimes, the Lady Boy. Okay, that's
5:45true, but for 40 years, Thailand has
5:47exploited its beaches, its food, its
5:49women, and so on, to turn them into a
5:51product that people come to seek out.
5:53People come to Thailand to seek out
5:55exoticism. And the city that symbolizes
5:57this phenomenon is obviously Pataya.
6:00Where does Pataya come from? Well,
6:02Pataya owes its existence to the
6:03Vietnam War. During the conflict,
6:06American soldiers were stationed in
6:08Thailand and the army was looking for a
6:10destination for what was called R&R at
6:12the time, or rest and recreation, which
6:15was the equivalent of leave. And that's
6:17when the authorities told them, "Wait,
6:20actually, we can create a city from
6:23scratch for your soldiers on rest." And
6:26almost overnight, Pataya started having
6:29bars, girls, alcohol, relaxing beaches,
6:32and lots of sexual activities. In fact,
6:35Pataya was going to be a city designed
6:37and built for the military
6:38decompression of American soldiers.
6:40Tough luck for the authorities. The
6:42Vietnam War ends and the soldiers leave
6:44. Except that the pleasure
6:46infrastructure, as they say, was going
6:48to stay. And Thailand had a choice.
6:51Either it destroyed this city and
6:53focused on other assets, uh, uh, of the
6:55country; or it brought in other
6:57Europeans to this city, and you can
6:59imagine that it would choose the second
7:02option, otherwise we wouldn't be here
7:04to discuss it. For the English, the
7:06Scandinavians, the Germans and then
7:08later the French, Pataya was going to
7:10become a city for all kinds of people.
7:12So basically, Pataya was built on a
7:15male demand for unconstrained pleasure.
7:18Its ideas were to be a city for all
7:20kinds of people, and that's not just me
7:21saying it, it's the history of the city
7:23. Remember this, because it will be
7:25important for what follows. Pataya
7:27adapted to Western demand. And so, the
7:31first waves of French people in
7:33Thailand began in the 80s and 90s. At
7:36first, it wasn't yet French Arabs. It
7:38was businessmen, expatriates, retirees
7:41and those who had a little money to
7:43spend. These were people looking for a
7:46cheap living environment like in the
7:48entire Southeast Asian peninsula, far
7:50from French tax constraints of course.
7:53And of course, these French people have
7:55a bastard's purchasing power compared
7:57to the Thai currency, the best. For a
8:00French salary, you are literally, and
8:02I'm not playing with words, but you are
8:04literally the king of oil. With a
8:05French salary in Thailand. So this
8:08French community in Thailand began to
8:10grow. At its peak, we are talking about
8:1230,000, 300 French residents in
8:14Thailand concentrated in Bangkok, the
8:16capital, Bouquet and of course the city
8:19we just mentioned, Pataya. The second
8:22wave of French people in Thailand, and
8:24this is where it will become very
8:26interesting for the rest of our video,
8:28was in the 2000s. What happened in the
8:302000s? Because before going to a
8:32country, before going on a tour, you
8:34have to hear about it. And in those
8:36years, in the 2000s, the country,
8:39Thailand, began to enter the French
8:41popular imagination via the cultural
8:44industry. I've given you an example
8:47that I think is extremely telling. In
8:492006, a TV movie called Lady Bar was
8:51broadcast. It's the story of a French
8:54man who falls in love with a Thai
8:56barmaid in Patataille. Objectively,
8:58let's not lie, we're not going to make
9:00a movie here. I'm not a movie fan, but
9:02this movie is not a masterpiece. It's
9:03even a bit crap. But it's interesting.
9:05Why? Because it will contribute to the
9:08idea that the French have of Thailand.
9:10Namely, that it is a country where you
9:12can find love easily because the women
9:14are beautiful, sometimes they are men
9:16but the women are beautiful, they are
9:18welcoming and above all they are
9:19accessible. In addition to that, the
9:21arguments that expatriates were already
9:23using at the time: life is cheap and it
9:25is relatively safe. You won't get
9:27hassled in the street. There will be a
9:28sequel to this TV movie that will
9:30continue to normalize this image of
9:32easy love in Thailand. And gradually,
9:34among all the arguments for going there
9:37, for going to Thailand, that of the
9:39male fantasy will become more important
9:41. And of course, you can imagine that
9:43it sucks, right? If you go there to
9:45find love, it means you won't find love
9:46in France, right? And those who don't
9:48find love in France, who are socially
9:50limited, aren't particularly
9:52intellectuals who are integrated into
9:54French culture, let's not lie to
9:56ourselves. So, the French are starting
9:59to get to know Thailand. But for the
10:01neighborhoods, as they say, to find
10:03their way around, there needs to be
10:05someone, someone who tells them about
10:07Thailand. You can imagine that the
10:08neighborhoods don't look, they're not
10:10expatriates. Someone from their
10:12background needs to start talking to
10:14them about Thailand. And that person
10:16will be 7 Geko. Who is 7 Geko? He's a
10:19rapper from Saint-Toin in Valdoise, so
10:2295. He's a guy from the neighborhoods
10:24who is listened to in the suburbs who
10:26went to Thailand for the first time in
10:292009. So, he explains that he went
10:31there on a whim and on that whim, he
10:33says that he fell in love with the
10:35country. Except that this geeko is not
10:37an ordinary tourist, he is a figure.
10:39And what he will observe in Thailand,
10:41he will bring back in his sounds, he is
10:43one of the first rappers to make videos
10:46in Pouquet, the city of Pouquet. He is
10:49the first to rhyme Thai words in French
10:52rap. And in people's imaginations,
10:55especially in the imagination of people
10:58in the suburbs, Thailand becomes an
11:01extension of this geeko's visual
11:03universe. We talk about girls, shooting
11:06ranges, and his audience will see this
11:09as an invitation. But the real turning
11:11point came in 2014. Why? Because in
11:142014, 7 Geko opened a bar, the 7 Geko
11:17bar, right on Banglar, which is the
11:20main street of Patong. And there, we
11:22have everything in this bar. We have
11:24alcohol, we have girls on catwalks, we
11:27have French rap. And it works so well,
11:29I learned this while making this video,
11:32that this guide du routard bar. This
11:34geeko's bar in the guide du routard.
11:37The [ __ ] guide du routard, you know.
11:38Like 7 Gekos and in the guide du
11:39routard. I find that funny as
11:41information. Anyway, and geeko, let's
11:43say it himself, the people who come to
11:46my concerts then come to my bar. For
11:49now, no problem. Except that here, we
11:51are 10,000 km from Paris. We are quite
11:53far. Gradually, what is happening?
11:56Gradually, this geeko's bar will become
11:58the rallying point for the French
12:00people who are not yet called French
12:02Arabic, we'll see why, but who come to
12:05this bar because they received an image
12:07in rap videos that called them to
12:09Thailand. More and more rappers are
12:11coming, rappers who snap, who talk
12:14about Thailand, who bring their own
12:16community and it's starting, it's
12:18starting slowly in people's
12:20imaginations. We think why not go and
12:22spend our holidays in Thailand. And
12:24what was the popular recognition? It
12:26was 2016. In 2016, a film came out and
12:29this film is Pataya by Frank Gastambit.
12:32We know Gastambit. He's the director of
12:34Kairas. He's a bit like the thermometer
12:36of the suburbs. In any case, he was the
12:37thermometer of the suburbs for a long
12:39time. And in Frank Gastambide's film,
12:41we see two guys from the projects
12:43dreaming of Pataya. Gastomide himself
12:45calls this destination, it's not me who
12:47says it, it's him, he calls this
12:49destination the paradise of the Kairas.
12:51In fact, you know, it's the Eldorado of
12:54young people from the suburbs, Thailand
12:56. Rappers shoot their rap videos there,
12:58there's boxing, the whole thing.
13:01Everything is there. It's quite
13:02surprising when you go there.
13:04Everything is there for the suburban
13:06guy's enjoyment, meaning you can ride a
13:08scooter without a helmet, you can box,
13:10you can go to gun ranges. There are
13:13lots of girls, alcohol is cheap, they
13:15can get into nightclubs, which is not
13:17easy elsewhere. And the film is not
13:20niche. What I want to tell you is that
13:22the film has 1.9 million admissions.
13:24It's an extremely popular film, and
13:27it's extremely popular especially with
13:30future French Arabic people who will
13:33grow up with these references, these
13:36references to Pataya, Thailand, the
13:38balance, the suburban culture in
13:41Thailand. In short, they get all that.
13:43They get this from the French Arabic
13:45people, they're still in France and
13:46they think, why not go for a trip to
13:48Thailand? And once again, we can't
13:49blame them. It's not even geopolitics,
13:51it's almost, I talked about it in a
13:53video, it's cultural prescription. You
13:55go where your cultural references tell
13:57you to go. But we mustn't forget one
13:58thing. Why do people go to Thailand in
14:00the first place? Because they could
14:03very well go to Norway or Canada. Not
14:06at all. In fact, it's a bit stupid, but
14:08you go to Thailand because it's cheap,
14:10right? Paris to Bangkok is 500 bucks,
14:12provided you manage it well. It's also
14:14cheaper than some intra-European
14:16flights. Uh, life there costs nothing.
14:18I'm talking about a hotel room for €
14:2020 a night, a meal for 3 bucks, and
14:22going out to clubs where you spend 10
14:24bucks max. So with 2,000 bucks a month,
14:27you're a king in Thailand. And for
14:29someone who has cash, it doesn't matter
14:31where it comes from, it doesn't matter
14:33where it comes from, it's an obvious
14:35proposition. For a month, you live like
14:38a king when your life in France is [ __ ]
14:41. Why do I say the source of this money
14:43matters not? Because the French police
14:45have documented it very well since the
14:482010s. They've documented it very well
14:49and they know it. Pouquette and Pataya
14:52are also destinations for money
14:55laundering and hiding drug-related
14:57money. Dealers on the run have been
15:00taking refuge there since the 80s, and
15:05drug traffickers in particular spend
15:07their money and take pictures of
15:09themselves on the beaches with calaches
15:11. And these photos were found on
15:13Instagram or Facebook at the time, and
15:15it contributed to the craze around
15:16Thailand. And diplomatically, if you
15:18don't act crazy, Thai justice is pretty
15:20relaxed. There's no automatic
15:22extradition treaty with France. So
15:24you're pretty light. And one last
15:26vector that we too often forget but
15:29which does exist is Thai boxing. Thai
15:32boxing is a sport that took hold in the
15:34suburbs in the late 90s. And for a Thai
15:37boxer, going to Thailand isn't just a
15:40vacation where you go and practice your
15:42sport a bit. It's downright a [ __ ]
15:45pilgrimage to go to Thailand when you
15:47practice boxing. It's going to the
15:49source, you know. Since 2005, the camps
15:51in Pouquet or Pataya have been offering
15:54accessible, inexpensive training
15:56courses with Thai coaches who are
15:58professional or semi-professional, and
16:00you pay roughly, I think it's something
16:03like a few dozen euros for a week of
16:05training, it's nothing. And that will
16:08also be one of the cultural gateways
16:10for certain populations in France who
16:12will say to themselves, "But wait, I
16:15can also practice my sport, I can come
16:17back, I will be a bit virile because I
16:19will have done my initiation course
16:21somewhere in Thailand." So if you
16:23rebuild the chain from the beginning,
16:24what do you have? You have a country
16:26that has built a tourist infrastructure
16:29based on pleasure for American soldiers
16:31. We have normal French people who
16:33arrive in the 80s. We have films that
16:35are popular with a certain population
16:37in the 2000s. We have 7 Geko which
16:39bridges the gap between the suburbs and
16:42Pouquette from 2009. We have Fran
16:44Gastambide who will stamp, who will put
16:46an official stamp on the city of Pataya
16:49as the paradise of the Cairra in 2016
16:51in front of 1.9 million spectators and
16:54at the same time other gateways.
16:57Pleasure, easy pleasure, easy love,
16:59potentially the mouetil, Thai boxing
17:02which offers a cultural and respectable
17:05pretext for travel is a perfect
17:07cocktail for the invasion of a new
17:10population that the Thais will have to
17:13endure. A population that will somehow
17:16reshape the tourist landscape in
17:18Thailand. We will find the same bars,
17:21the same clubs, uh, the same hotels,
17:23sometimes even the importation of an
17:25entire neighborhood. I swear it's true.
17:28As will be the case with an entire
17:30neighborhood of Patong, in the city of
17:33Patong which was named the 4000 in
17:35reference to a housing estate in La
17:37Courneuve. A neighborhood in Thailand
17:39is named after a La Courneuve housing
17:40estate. And in these neighborhoods, we
17:42find restaurants that serve hacos,
17:44tasty crousty and kebabs with Algerian
17:46sauce in the streets of Pouquets.
17:48Kebabs with Algerian sauce in the
17:49streets of Thailand, huh? So, in a way,
17:52the suburbs didn't travel to Thailand,
17:54they reproduced the suburbs in Thailand
17:55. It's more like that. At first, the
17:59Thais didn't give a damn because it was
18:01residual, but very quickly, very
18:02quickly, the Thais became tense, if I
18:04may say so. In the early 2020s, French
18:07suburbanites arrived in Thailand in
18:09large numbers. And then, in terms of
18:11qualification, the Thais were annoyed
18:12because for them, they had a word for
18:14white people: it was farangu. Uh, if
18:16you're American, you're German, you're
18:18English, you're Australian or you're
18:20Danish, you're a farangu. If you're
18:21white, you're a pharangu, there's no
18:23nuance. Besides, we won't hold it
18:25against them; it's quite logical. For a
18:27Thai in the 17th century, all white
18:29people were the same. They came from
18:31the same country, right? So there was a
18:33word to designate them, it was Farang.
18:35There was a word for 400 years to refer
18:37to white people, it was farangu. And by
18:38the way, as a little anecdote, Cocorico
18:40if you will, the word Farang comes from
18:42us, it comes from the French. Farang
18:44comes from Farang 7 which means French
18:47in the Thai language. Because the
18:49ambassadors of Louis XIV, uh, sent to
18:52the Thai court were so memorable, they
18:55left such an impression on the minds of
18:57the Thai royal court that the French
19:00word became the word for Westerners.
19:02It's quite stylish, let's not lie, it's
19:04not the case for the English or the
19:05Americans. Except that this
19:07qualification system, this fairly
19:09simple classification system where
19:11everyone is a farang, it held until the
19:13suburbanites arrived in Thailand.
19:15Because then, the Thais didn't really
19:16know what to do anymore. These people
19:18have French passports but they don't
19:20behave like French people at all. They
19:22don't behave like farangues, and I want
19:25to tell you, they don't behave like
19:27tourists, nor like Western tourists,
19:29nor like the French expatriate
19:31community. They're not really farangues
19:34, the Thais thought at that time. And
19:36the Thais didn't have SOS Racisme and
19:38the Socialist Party to prevent them
19:39from seeing reality. When a
19:41classification problem arises, they
19:43create a new box, they create a new
19:45word. And here, we have to tell the
19:47truth because it's even more revealing
19:49than we think. The term French Arabic
19:52has two origins. Of course, we'll come
19:54back to the Thai police, who called
19:56them that after several incidents that
19:58winter, but also the community of
20:00Western expatriates themselves who had
20:02been living in Pouquette for 10 or 20
20:04years. And if they invented this
20:06concept, this concept of French Arabic,
20:08it was to distinguish themselves, to
20:10tell the Thais, these people you see
20:12are different from us. We are not those
20:14people. And imagine what that means,
20:16huh? Westerners living on the other
20:19side of the world inventing a term so
20:21as not to be confused with a delinquent
20:23population that arrives. And from that
20:25moment on, the French community in
20:27Thailand split into two. On one side,
20:29we have the French, the farangues, and
20:32on the other, we have the French Arabic
20:34. And besides, this term is not at all
20:36politicized at the base as one might
20:38think in France. The expatriate
20:39community in Thailand is not
20:40particularly right-wing, you know. They
20:42are entrepreneurs, they are bar
20:44managers, they are retirees, they are
20:45former teachers. In short, we have
20:46everything. These are just people who
20:49live there, who know the Thai reality
20:51and who describe what they see with the
20:53arrival of these suburbanites in
20:55Thailand. Then, the term was obviously
20:58invented by the Thai police who, from
21:002015 onwards, were seeing more and more
21:02degradation on their soil and were
21:03looking for an expression that would
21:05not stigmatize all the French. Not to
21:08say that all the French are annoying.
21:10No, it is a certain French population
21:12that is annoying. The Thai police
21:14popularized the term French Arabic, and
21:17I think of Taat and Kausod, which are
21:20the two major daily newspapers in the
21:22country. And now, today, when I am
21:24speaking to you, they systematically
21:27use it to describe the profile of
21:29French delinquency in Thailand. Because
21:31it is important to understand that the
21:34Thai authorities had no interest in
21:36stigmatizing what they called French
21:38Arabic. They were just looking for a
21:41way to describe a reality that they
21:43were not aware of before. And here too,
21:45I don't think we can accuse the Thai
21:47police of racism. They have no French
21:50political bias. Uh, they're going to
21:53describe these French Arabs as having
21:55the pomonze, as being noisy, as playing
21:58French rap music, as having an attitude
22:01of defiance and violence towards the
22:03local police. In short, we recognized
22:05who he was talking about. And that's
22:07where it gets really interesting. What
22:09does this word really mean, in reality,
22:11in the truest sense, French Arabic,
22:13what does it mean? Well, in my opinion,
22:16it's a statement of statelessness. The
22:18fact of being stateless. Why am I
22:20telling you this? French Arabic is not
22:22Arabs. French Arabic is not Arabs. We
22:25have to be very clear about that. The
22:26Thai authorities, I came across an
22:28article, the Thai authorities, they are
22:30very clear on this subject. Algerian
22:33tourists who come from Algeria,
22:35Moroccan tourists who come from Morocco
22:37, Tunisians or even Egyptians are not
22:39violent. They are not violent, they are
22:41not problematic. They do not bother
22:42anyone. They behave like any other
22:44tourist in any country. They have a
22:47language, Arabic, they have a culture,
22:49they have a religion that they practice
22:50, they have social codes that come from
22:52somewhere. In short, we very rarely
22:55have winter incidents involving
22:57Maghreban nationals who are actually
22:59Maghreban, so with only Maghreban
23:02passports. We rarely have news stories
23:04involving them in the newspapers.
23:05Except that these French Arabs, they
23:07are not French either. Oh well, now we
23:09don't understand anything. They are not
23:11French either. They speak French for
23:12convenience but they do not have the
23:14codes of the French, the codes of the
23:16French tourist. And, uh, the Thai
23:18authorities, they don't see these
23:20French Arabs as farangues, and yet
23:22they've known them for over 40 years.
23:25But that's not them, you know, they
23:27don't have French values, they don't
23:29have the politeness or anything that
23:31characterizes our people when we travel
23:33. And what will especially shock the
23:36Thai police is that when you ask a
23:38French Arab where he comes from, he's
23:40the only tourist in the world who tells
23:42you his neighborhood, not his country,
23:44his neighborhood. Hence this story
23:47about a neighborhood that was renamed
23:49the 4000 in Thailand. And that's what
23:51French Arabs are, they're a weird
23:53category, a category without ties,
23:55people with a French passport and a
23:57suburban culture, they're not really
23:59French but they're not really Arabs
24:01either. And once again, Thailand
24:03doesn't have the subtleties of identity
24:06and French victims, you know. He sees
24:09troublemakers and names his
24:10troublemakers. He spots patterns and
24:12names his patterns. And that's why I'm
24:14making this video on my channel. But it
24:17also brings us back to France. When
24:18this kind of behavior occurs here, a
24:21screen or a filter is immediately put
24:23in place. It's institutional racism,
24:25it's discrimination, it's colonial
24:28history, it's sociology and everything
24:30that prevents you from naming reality
24:32and condemning certain people who act
24:35in this reality. So much so that we had
24:37to wait until they went 10,000 km from
24:39Paris to identify them. And
24:41paradoxically, to show you all the
24:43hypocrisy surrounding this situation,
24:45when the concept of French Arabic came
24:47out of the Thai police stations,
24:49everyone, and I mean everyone in France
24:51, understood who we were talking about.
24:53How strange! It's
24:54a reality that he knew but that he
24:56didn't have the right to name because
24:59in Thailand, you don't have the screens
25:01or the sociological filter that excuses
25:03all deviant behavior. You don't have
25:05that. You can't accuse the Thai
25:07authorities of colonial thinking.
25:09Thailand has never colonized anyone,
25:11right? The French Arabs are richer than
25:13the three/is/4 of the Thais. So you
25:15can't blame poverty either. So when a
25:17French Arab gets on the nerves in
25:18Thailand, you know, who gets into a
25:20fight with a policeman like this will
25:22happen, we'll come back to that. When
25:24when he behaves like [ __ ] there, I even
25:26saw that sometimes they beat up a
25:28motorbike driver. The Thais don't see
25:30him as an oppressed person expressing
25:32his historical pain and that we
25:34absolutely have to come and suck him
25:35off. They see him as someone who
25:37behaves like [ __ ]. End of analysis, no
25:39sociology, no mitigating circumstances,
25:42huh. And that's why French Arabic is,
25:45in my opinion, the most honest term in
25:47this whole story. Why? Because this
25:51term says exactly what it sees. There's
25:54a situation, I'm describing it. That's
25:56the term, the depth of this term, huh.
26:00They say it sees without the filter
26:02France has imposed for 40 years. So
26:05from 2023-2024 onwards, we'll have a
26:08flow, a flow of individuals, thousands
26:10of French Arabic people who will land
26:13in Pouquette and Pataya. And for a
26:16while, I mean a while, one or two years
26:18, for a while, Thailand will try to
26:21absorb these populations. Except that
26:23at some point, the Thai smile has its
26:25limits, huh. And these Thais will start
26:28to spot little patterns. Let's start
26:30with the details. So, for example,
26:32hoteliers from Patong rate certain
26:34profiles at reception, restaurateurs
26:36talk to each other and compare their
26:38evenings. That's funny. Yesterday, I
26:40had an evening with some Australians,
26:42it was nice. The other one replies, "Oh
26:43, that's funny. I was with some French
26:46people. It wasn't nice at all. There
26:47were two stabbings and a beating. Okay,
26:50funny. Uh, it's going to be the
26:52motorbike driver who starts complaining
26:53to their management about a new type of
26:55population that speaks badly and
26:57doesn't respect anything. It's going to
26:59be the French expatriate community
27:01there who starts getting questions from
27:02their Thai neighbors. [ __ ], we've seen
27:04that there are guys who speak your
27:05language but who annoy everyone. Do you
27:06know who they are? Well, I mean, you
27:08have them, you know them. And the
27:09pattern is always the same, right? The
27:12local police, especially the ones who
27:14deal with these populations, so it's
27:16going to be the ones in Pataya and
27:18Bangkok, the local population mentions
27:20groups of noisy, drunken young men. Uh,
27:23these young people don't respect any
27:25social codes. For example, it was
27:27something that really shocked the Thais
27:29at the time. For example, in Thailand,
27:30you have to take off your shoes before
27:32entering a temple. You have to take off
27:34your shoes. You're not allowed to touch
27:35someone's head. Uh, you can't shout in
27:37public, especially not with a woman.
27:40Well, you never shout at a woman in
27:41Thailand. Uh, you never provoke a
27:44direct confrontation and you never
27:46question the authority of the police.
27:49But then, that's more in Asia in
27:50general. Things that are obvious even
27:52to any tourist who did 10 minutes of
27:55research before arriving in Thailand,
27:57but not to everyone apparently. Because
27:59now, with this new population, the
28:02Thais, they're stunned. Literally,
28:04they're stunned. Uh, from 2020, we're
28:06starting to have Tmax Y, urban sleds in
28:09the alleys of Patong, at 3 a.m., waking
28:12everyone up. world. There are fights
28:14literally everywhere, there are unpaid
28:16bills in restaurants, there are Thai
28:19women who are attacked in the streets
28:21because they were mistaken for
28:23prostitutes. Clearly, all of this is
28:25filmed and posted online. And for a
28:27country that lives partly off tourism,
28:29let me remind you, 10%of its GDP is
28:31tourism. For a country that lives off
28:33tourism, these images are catastrophic
28:35because they are images of a country
28:37that is overwhelmed by crime. Crime
28:39that can scare away potential tourists,
28:41who will instead choose Laos, Cambodia
28:43or Vietnam to visit a country in the
28:45southeast. And that's what I was
28:47telling you earlier, French Arabs are
28:48gradually going to recreate what they
28:50left in France. Hence the 4000 district
28:52, hence the otacos, hence the Algerian
28:54kebabs, Hence the barber shops in
28:57Pataya, hence the recent testicusti
28:59that opened in Pataya. And the Thai
29:01authorities quickly understood that
29:03they were being colonized by these
29:05famous tourists, uh, and these famous
29:07tourists who were scaring away other
29:09tourists. So, they began to organize
29:11themselves. In 2023, the French embassy
29:14in Thailand was summoned to Pouquette
29:16for the first time. For the first time,
29:19the French embassy was told off. French
29:22nationals had been extremely violent in
29:25a tourist area. And the French embassy
29:27and the Thais told the French embassy,"
29:29It's annoying because these people
29:31speak your language. "The French
29:33embassy apologized and promised to
29:34resolve the matter as soon as possible.
29:36Except that it didn't work. It didn't
29:37work. 2025, a new series of incidents,
29:40a new diplomatic meeting. This time,
29:42the police, the police that deals with
29:45tourists, known as the tourist police,
29:47the police, immigration, the army and
29:49Pouquet's prosecutors met around a
29:51table and discussed a legal framework
29:54that could be applied to send these
29:56offenders back to their country of
29:58origin. There was talk of fines,
30:00imprisonment, vehicle retention and
30:03visa cancellations. And we were no
30:05longer in the realm of diplomacy, we
30:07were entering into crisis management.
30:09And then the event that would really
30:11traumatize the Thais was what happened
30:13during his 2026 campaign. So it was the
30:15Thai New Year, a traditional festival
30:17where everyone splashes water on the
30:19street. It's a friendly moment, a
30:20moment which is festive. Except that on
30:23April 13, a group of French people beat
30:25up a Thai man and his wife for no
30:27reason. There was this arrest and among
30:30those arrested, of course, only French
30:31Arabs fell off their chairs. And in
30:34fact, what shocked the Thai authorities
30:37was obviously the violence of the
30:39attack. Hardcore stuff. Thais had never
30:42seen anything like it. It was the gap
30:44between the festive side and the hatred
30:46of the attack. Everyone was having fun,
30:48everyone was laughing and you had weird
30:50guys who were angry. You had weird guys
30:52who were angry and who beat someone up
30:53with several people and, above all,
30:55they beat him up while filming him
30:57since they had obviously filmed the
30:59attack. Uh, the French embassy was
31:01called back for the third time in three
31:03years and of course the French
31:05community in Thailand was getting
31:07organized. The local French media,
31:09there are two big local French media
31:11outlets which are Gavroche and Zone
31:12Samuille, uh, they receive hundreds of
31:14comments from angry expats demanding
31:16explanations. What's going on? Why is
31:18there this kind of violence? In short,
31:21no one understands, including French
31:23people of Maghrebi origin who live
31:25there and who don't understand, why
31:27these petty criminals aren't punished
31:29more. It all culminates in the very
31:32recent decision, so it was a week ago,
31:34a decision that was made on May 19,
31:372026, where the Thai government
31:39announced that it would halve the
31:41length of visa-free stays. So, it went
31:44from 60 to 30 days. 60 to 30 days for
31:47several countries. Obviously, the
31:50country that is targeted first is
31:51France. And among all the scandals, in
31:542026, there was sexual relations on
31:57board a tuk-tuk. So, I'm telling you
31:59about the scandals that shocked the
32:01Thais. There was the same thing on
32:04Patong Hill, where there was sexual
32:06relations on a beach in front of
32:08tourists, There was a full-blown
32:09beating in January, and there were
32:11stabbings outside a nightclub in
32:13Pouquette. In short, we also import the
32:16violence of these groups. So what's
32:18going to happen? There are going to be
32:20arrests. And what's quite funny is that
32:22the French Arabs are going to discover
32:24something they've never experienced in
32:26France, namely that the consequences
32:28come. You don't have the European Union
32:30or communist judges telling you that
32:31you don't have to go to prison. You
32:33beat up a cop in France, you get a file
32:35, summonses, emergency postponements, a
32:38sentencing judge who kills your tail.
32:40Oh, that's not how it works. There are
32:42no reduced sentences in Thai. Anyway,
32:43there's always someone between you and
32:45the punishment. And that someone is
32:47often a left-wing woman, let's not kid
32:48ourselves. In Thailand, there's no one.
32:50There's the The law and the law apply.
32:52If you touch a Thai cop, you're in
32:54prison that same evening, not in a week
32:56. Tonight in a cell with only Thais,
32:58without a translator, without meals,
33:00without the right to an appeal or a
33:02commissariat. You disappear from the
33:04system. Drugs are something else again.
33:06Some Thais were sentenced to 18 years
33:09in prison for drug cases, huh? 18 years
33:12in a Thai prison. And the news went
33:14viral on TikTok and discouraged a lot
33:15of guys from trafficking in Thailand,
33:17huh? And there's one thing that these
33:19people don't anticipate at all, it's
33:21the laise majesty. So it's an insult to
33:23the monarchy. It's a minimum of 15
33:24years. The Thai king is not a
33:27decorative figure, he's a sacred
33:29institution. If you say something wrong
33:31about him in public, you'll be in
33:33prison within half an hour. And a guy
33:35who grew up in a culture where
33:37everything is insulted on principle, he
33:39is not prepared for this kind of
33:40sacredness, this kind of sacralization
33:42of a public figure. Because in France,
33:44there is always someone to explain, I
33:46don't know, a lawyer or a judge to
33:47explain that you have to understand the
33:49context. He has experienced difficult
33:51things so it is normal that he does
33:53something bad. You don't have that in
33:55Thailand, no system excuses it in this
33:57country. Because in France, you always
33:59have someone to explain, you know. You
34:00have a lawyer who understands the
34:02context, you have a judge who has read
34:03reports on urban policy, you have a
34:05system that manages, that cushions,
34:06that dilutes and above all a system
34:08that excuses in France. It will be
34:10poverty, it will be racism, systemic
34:12racism in fact, it will be oppression,
34:14it will be colonial history or some
34:16other [ __ ] to avoid judging an
34:18individual. Suffice it to say that the
34:20discourse on systemic oppression of The
34:22part of a guy who is richer than 3/4 of
34:24the local population, which is the case
34:26for French Arabs in Thailand, he
34:28doesn't accept this discourse. And the
34:30same thing is, telling a police officer
34:32from the [ __ ] province of
34:34Kchakabouri about oppression and
34:36microaggression, you get a direct slap
34:38in the face, it doesn't work. It's a
34:41discourse that doesn't work in Thailand
34:42. The police officer in Patong hasn't
34:44read the reports. He doesn't know what
34:4693 is. He doesn't know about the 2005
34:48riots. He sees a guy who beat up a Thai
34:49man, he sees a guy who beat up a
34:51policeman and he applies the law. And
34:53it's the most brutal shock of reality
34:55that these guys have ever experienced.
34:58Not because Thai women are cruel, not
34:59at all, but because the world outside
35:01of France and even, I want to tell you,
35:03outside of the West, owes them nothing.
35:06Because this What they allow themselves
35:08to do in France, Switzerland, Belgium,
35:10Sweden and everywhere in Western
35:12countries, what they allow themselves
35:14to do there, they do it thanks to the
35:16moral weakness of the countries in
35:18question. In Thailand, this is not the
35:20case. The Thais are not there to flog
35:22themselves every morning. Thailand did
35:23not ask for anything in this story. It
35:25opened its beaches, it opened its
35:26temples, it smiled at all the
35:28populations and it received that.
35:30Because deep down, what is this story?
35:32It is 40 years of failed assimilation
35:34taking a vacation, right? The parents
35:37arrived in France in the 70s and 80s.
35:40The original culture was lost along the
35:42way. The French identity was never
35:44really offered. In any case, it was
35:46never really imposed on these
35:47populations. So these populations have
35:49become something else. They are not
35:51Arabs, they are not French. It is an
35:53identity that is a bit abstract, a bit
35:54constructed. on the void, a bit of
35:56resentment, a bit of violence, well a
35:58lot of violence, sometimes with codes,
36:00uh, of American rap, with a history
36:02that we don't know, that we don't know
36:04very well, that we try to, uh, to, to,
36:06to invent, huh. In France, we deal with
36:09this with layers, we deal with it with
36:11institutional racism, we deal with it
36:13with positive discrimination, with
36:15colonial repentance. We aren't allowed
36:17to look the problem in the face.
36:18There's always a filter, which is what
36:20I was talking about earlier, in
36:22Thailand. The problem was exposed and
36:25everyone recognized it immediately
36:27because everyone already knew it. The
36:30term French Arabic went around the
36:33French-speaking world in a few days. In
36:36a few days. Not because people
36:38discovered the expression, not at all.
36:40Because it was finally a name for
36:42something that everyone saw but could
36:45never say. That's it. And that's why
36:47this concept, it is magical. Thailand
36:49did not introduce the French to this
36:51concept. It returned to the French the
36:54view that was confiscated. Now, it is
36:56defending itself legally. We talk about
36:59expulsion, arrest, and crisis meetings;
37:01we talk about a sovereign country
37:03protecting its inhabitants without an
37:05ethics committee, without Le Monde,
37:07without Libération to explain it is
37:09complicated, and that we must, we must
37:11try to look into the, into the
37:13childhood traumas. Not at all. What
37:15Thailand has taught us is very simple.
37:18When we stop excusing everything, the
37:21problem will solve itself. The law that
37:23applies to everyone is not oppression.
37:25It is the only thing that protects the
37:27world. What we call tolerance in France
37:29for 40 years has protected no one. What
37:32I was telling you in my video on Naï
37:34Boukelé, it has simply created
37:35individuals who do not know how to live
37:37without The impunity they were given
37:39and that he discovered it in Patung,
37:4110,000 km from home, in a Thai cell
37:43where things were not good. And that's
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