Posted on 11/06/2005 2:26:51 PM PST by Pikamax
French rioters open fire on police, 10 hurt 06 Nov 2005 22:13:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
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GRIGNY, France, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Rioters fired shots at police in an 11th night of riots in France on Sunday, injuring 10 policemen, two of them seriously, police said.
Some 200 youths were lobbing stones and other objects at police in Grigny, south of Paris, a police spokesman said, adding that some of the rioters had fired at officers with shotguns, hitting 10 policemen.
Two officers were being treated in hospital, one with lead shot wounds to the throat, the other with wounds to a leg.
Asked whether the rioters could have killed someone, the spokesman said: "Probably not at this distance, but they could have caused bad injuries, or turn one of the officers blind."
The fresh violence came just hours after President Jacques Chirac vowed to restore order, making his first public comments since the riots started in Paris's poor suburbs on Oct. 27.
"The Republic is quite determined, by definition, to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Chirac said after a domestic security council met to respond to the violence in which thousands of cars have gone up in flames.
"The law must have the last word," Chirac said.
Rioting began with the accidental electrocution of two youths apparently fleeing police. Their deaths ignited frustration among ethnic minorities over racism, unemployment, police treatment and their marginal place in French society.
The riots have spread from Paris's bleak suburbs to other French cities. Towns such as Toulouse, Nantes and Strasbourg were hit by violence on Sunday.
but... butbutbutbut guns are illegal in France!
The rioters are winning. When does this become a 'civil war?'
Any indication that the French police shot back?
When the cops quit.
Le boo hoo....
...they came for the Jews, but I wasn't Jewish so I did nothing...
you know the rest...
Ah, the Religion of Peace at work! Enjoy your dhimmitude, Frogs. Here in America we should make sure that this doesn't happen to us. Slam the door on immigration from arab countries and deport the ones that are here illegally. They are nothing but a Fifth Column for Islamofascism's war on civilization.
Not shotguns and hunting rifles.
i mean it...the french are toast
You are right but I'm afraid your warning will go unheeded by our government.
Hmm ... not going away.
The first intifada in France. Expect many more to come.
From what I understand there's a narrow range of firearms you can legally own in France, if you go through all the rigorous registration and prove a valid reason to the authorities for owning one. My guess is that these may be black market firearms.
Who asked this question? It is quite telling really because (in the eyes of the appeasers) if nobody could have been killed then the cops would have not had a reason to return fire. In other words, the French should hold their fire until someone gets killed. That seems to be the mentality of the French authorities.
Perhaps they could fart in their general direction?
Guess the Police will not shoot back until they can determine if the "youths" intend to kill them.
There is a passage in Xenophon, I think it is in the Anabisis, where he talks about a certain failed Greek general who was a student of Gorgias. He thought politics was all about speech. He could rule gentlemen, but not men who were not gentlemen. Because with the latter one sometimes needs blows as well as words, and he did not know how to use blows.
How many months will pass before the "rioters" are stricken with the label of "insurgents" and to finally be called what they really are? "terrorists".
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