Angers city get drunk on rights

The slogan looks already has been. Twenty years old. "Angers Mix'Cité : a day to become rich with our differences" is the headline of a gathering, December 1st, in Le Quai theatre, which will surely be as pompous as useless. "That will be a time of exchange views, debates and organized activities to promote a better understanding of the other", declares Sylvia Camara-Tombini, deputy mayor in charge of diversity, participative democracy, youth, town policy and decentralized cooperation. Phew!

Credit Picture : Angers city

Pomposity in the announ-cement of the event in which participants will launch attacks against discrimi-nation aspects "so many walls of a fortress to bring down", writes the Angers city website in clear reference to the storming of the Bastille. My goodness, the revolution is going to break out in Angers! More than 100 do-gooder associations will stand in their dignity for widows and orphans all over the world proclaiming universal rights where daily qualities, formerly French caracteristics, would be sufficient or perhaps necessary. 

It is of course much more easy to go on about intoxicating abstractions rather than to remind to many inhabitants the basic principles of the living together : cleanliness of the streets, night silence, temperance... But those are not rights, but duties. Oh sorry!