Posted on 11/08/2005 7:24:48 AM PST by areafiftyone
Two items for those who continue to insist that the riots breaking out all over Europe are unconnected to the global Islamic jihad:
Paris - 'We burned 15 cars. How many do you have?' A grim contest is under way in France as kids from disadvantaged suburbs vie with each other to see who can riot the hardest.
On Internet websites, young arsonists brag about their successes. Rioting, it seems, has become a trend sport, as youths in immigrant areas of provincial cities begin to rally to the call from Paris.
While political slogans hold no sway among these youngsters, hatred for Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is palpable. 'Now we're the ones chasing you with the Karcher (high-pressure hoses),' they say, referring to Sarkozy's pledge to clean the suburbs of 'scum'.
What began as pitched battles has transformed into a nightly game of cat-and-mouse with the police.
Two or three people set out armed with mobile phones, crowbars and incendiary material. A quick hit with the crowbar on the windscreen of a police van, a Molotov cocktail inside - and they're off back into the sprawling housing estates. >{? The rioters have also started using motorbikes and mobile phones to trace the movements of police riot squads, in tactics reminiscent of urban guerrilla movements.
'Each night we turn this place into Baghdad', says one masked youth in Sevran near Paris. As a political statement, there have been better - but these riots seem to be more aimed at the television cameras than the National Assembly.
'It would be better to go into Paris than break up everything here,' his friend says, appearing to consider that the victims of the rioting are predominantly their own neighbours and friends.
'Why did they set my car on fire, why mine?' asks one young man as he watches it go up in flames. He knows the perpetrators, he says. They're neighbours of his, but he refuses to name them.
'These are our kids,' says Mohammed Rezzoug, vice president of Blanc-Mesnil football club.
Every night, Rezzoug is out on the streets talking to local youths in a bid to prevent his own sports hall going up in smoke. 'They answer me: 'Momo, we'll fuck them all',' he says.
Lurking behind the lines of burning cars is the knowledge that these riots could soon become a matter of life and death.
On Wednesday night, a disabled woman in Sevran barely escaped death in a burning bus.
Youths barricaded the road with burning tyres and threw fuel into the bus. All the other passengers fled, but the 56-year-old, unable to move, was sprayed with petrol and then a burning rag was thrown inside.
The woman survived the attack with second and third-degree burns on one-fifth of her body, after the bus driver managed to pull her to safety.
© dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Video of French Rioters Screaming "Allahu Akbar"
"Barring the miraculous development of a spine in the very near future, France will collapse upon itself."
France dubois has always depended on the spines of strangers.
I emailed 2 ladies that work for our company's France office and asked if they were ok. The response from one:
Thanking you, but you know we saw that the events have been amplified in your TV News .
Everything fine , that's just some young people unhappy with some government rules , and they did not understand that we have to discuss before changing and they react violently .The governement takes this seriously and some measures will be taken for this not last too long . But we're ok
see post #22
The situation is critical in fact but far from the civil war. We hope that the governement will take drastic steps in order to calm these riots. WE are safe and all people here by are as well.
Impressive!!!
France deserves this...they earned it, so I will enjoy this spectacle as long as it lasts.
"Thanking you, but you know we saw that the events have been amplified in your TV News."
Wow. Perhaps I was wrong about France needing to grow a spine. Their first priority should be to cure a potentially fatal case of denial. You post is truly concerning.
Where's Martel the hammer when they need him???
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron//WestEurope/Tours.html
I had no idea. Very interesting and very relevent TODAY. And not just for France.
"Why did you kill everybody in the house?" - Richard Pryor
"They wuz home" - convict
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.