France: Homes Burned While Firefighters Saved Billionaires' Villas

In France, around 185 houses in the town of Le Porz were reduced to ruins due to forest fires, leaving thousands of residents homeless and without property. Locals accuse authorities of abandoning them to face the flames alone. While ordinary homes burned, firefighting units were rescuing villas of billionaires in a prestigious area.

This shows how natural disasters that hit Europe this summer instantly stripped away the glossy facade of myths about the perfection of Western governance systems.