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Posted on 11/06/2005 7:49:08 AM PST by anonymoussierra
France has suffered its heaviest riot damage yet as warnings of tough prison sentences failed to deter arsonists. Police reported 1,295 vehicle burnings and made 312 arrests as unrest in African and Arab communities spread to Strasbourg, Toulouse and Nantes.
On the 10th consecutive night of riots, four cars were torched on Place de la Republique in central Paris along with others in the central 17th District.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy had warned of stiff jail sentences.
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In some areas of Paris, night buses were cancelled as a precaution.
Police helicopters patrolled the skies over the capital, attempting to pursue and identify those responsible for the attacks.
Unrest began after the deaths of two youths in the rundown Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois on 27 October, who were accidentally electrocuted at an electricity sub-station after reportedly fleeing police.
The northern town of Evreux in Normandy saw some of the worst unrest overnight with at least 30 cars burned along with three shops, the local authorities said.
A school was also petrol-bombed in the town while four police officers were injured in clashes with youths, some of them reportedly wielding baseball bats.
Saturday night's violence was the worst reported to date:
A McDonald's was rammed by a car and almost completely burnt out in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris
Five classrooms of a nursery in Grigny, south of Paris, were destroyed by fire while a primary school was also slightly damaged
A recycling facility was attacked in the Essone area near Paris, with 800 sq m of paper going up in flames and at least 35 vehicles torched
In Drancy, north-east of Paris, two teenagers were caught and handed over to police after they tried to set fire to a lorry.
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Marches
Earlier on Saturday hundreds of people joined marches in Paris suburbs to protest against the violence.
In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt out vehicles and buildings with banners reading "No to violence" and "Yes to dialogue".
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met eight key ministers and the head of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur.
After the meeting, Mr Boubakeur urged a change in tone from the government.
"What I want from the authorities, from Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials are words of peace," he said.
Mr de Villepin has been holding a series of meetings with public figures and ordinary people from the affected areas as he seeks an end to the crisis.
Mr Sarkozy's much-quoted description of urban vandals as "rabble" (racaille) a few days before the riots began is said by many to have already created tension.
Reports of a police tear gas grenade hitting a mosque during the riots further inflamed feelings.
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Ooooh, a WARNING! I don't understand why they're not quaking in their boots...
This will do wonders for their faltering tourism.
So what are they going to do?
This will do wonders for their faltering tourism.
So what are they going to do?
Oh no, warnings of tough prison sentences!
The freepers are so mean. If you all had your way, you would spoil Ramadan for the practioners of Islam, the Religion of Peace.
Why are these riots limited to nighttime? Seems to me that the rioters could do this in broad daylight and still get away with it.
Warning??? Something that goes like - "Stop it or we will use real rubber bullets on you" - Oh ya that will drain their water pipes for sure.
Maybe this is going on during the day. It is just a lot easier to see and much harder to hid, at night. That nice red glow in the horizon makes for the prettiest of all sky lines.
""What I want from the authorities, from Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials are words of peace," he said. "
In other words, "kiss our precious Islamofascist Muslim butts or we'll keep burning more of France down to the ground"
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“This is out of control now. Eto fore Chirac cares of more of his image as socialist moral man then his country. France wake up!!! If this people do this in my country we will finish this quickly. Enfore Paris have absolutely lost will of fight. I know this will be deal with it ore pero when? When Louvre is burn to a ground? When Palace of Versailles is in ruin? Infore France wake up!!!”
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Warning: if you don't stop rioting, we might arrest you (and even possibly put you jail.)
"Dialogue not Violence"? Who is that aimed at? That's like nicely asking Freddy Krueger to stop killing people.
I have never seen anything a pathetic as the way the French are pandering to these third-world scum. It is just making it worse. When it comes to fighting, the French are as bad as Senate Repubs!
"Oh no, warnings of tough prison sentences!"I do know this is total stupid!!!!thank you"mtbopfuyn"
I wonder if something like this happened here would all of those "peace" people change their minds?
no..something like this.."I fart in your general direction"..and, "now go away or I shall taunt you a second time"..
yea, threats of prison, putting up choppers to take pictures and stopping the busses..I don't understand why they haven't stopped rioting with this pending punishment..
If the terrorists take France, can we just let them have it? There won't be much change in policies. They'll still be extremely anti-Israel. They'll still give funding to the Palestinians, helping them in their effort to destroy Israel. They'll still support the EU and the loss of France's own sovereignty. They'll still advocate more moslems moving into the nation. Why nothing would change. No big deal.
> Maybe this is going on during the day.
This is, after all, the BBC reporting. You can tell from
the lack of candor about who these perps represent,
that the BBC is sugar-coating the story.
Meanwhile, the French are learning the true meaning of
the Al Qaeda special deal for infidels*:
"You let us jihad, infidel*, and we kill you last."
* Oh, we almost forgot - we lie to infidels.
> If the terrorists take France, can we just let them have it?
Unfortunately, the Frogs do have ready-to-use nukes, and
delivery systems for same, as well as any number of other
nasty tactical weapons (e.g. Exocets) we'd rather not see
in the hands of the Cutthroat Cult.
I guess they have to sleep some time.
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