Ructions in Lausanne
28th August 2025
As reported in the news feed over the last few days, the Swiss city of Lausanne has experienced several nights of riots, in which mischievous youngsters blocked the streets with burning containers and rubbish while throwing debris and shooting off fireworks at the police.
The sequence of events is similar to those we’ve become accustomed to in France over the past fifteen or twenty years: a “youth” was killed while fleeing from police, and his co-ethnics responded by rioting and burning stuff.
Early reports failed to mention the ethnicity of the unfortunate tyke. The only indication I could find was the visible melanin content of some of the boisterous rioters seen in photographs of the festivities.