Writes Guido HULSMANN:

Interesting article on a French independent Catholic website on the government’s attempt to dissimulate one of the few publicly available statistical indicators of the growing percentage of residents with roots in Africa.

“Drépanocytose” means sickle cell disease. This condition is genetically transmitted and affects almost exclusively ethnic Africans (both North and Sub-Saharan). According to the chart shown on the webpage, the sickle cell disease-indicator suggests that some 73 percent of all children born in 2016 in the Paris area (Île de France) have African ancestry, while in 2005 that percentage stood at some 54 percent. The national average was almost 40 percent in 2016, which compares to less than 32 percent in 2005. Again, these are newborns, but the trend is clear.

Two months ago, the government decided to shut down the public-health office which had been monitoring this “rare disease” since 1972. The article comments in its title: “Sickle cell disease and population replacement: the government breaks the thermometer.”