Posted on 11/06/2005 4:44:35 PM PST by SkyPilot
Rage on Rue Picasso
Will the riots swell the ranks of jihadists in Europe?
Nov. 14, 2005 issue - Word of the deaths spread quickly through Clichy-sous-Bois, a grim collection of housing projects an hour by train and bus from the center of Paris. Two teenage boys had been electrocuted while trying to hide near a transformer the night of Oct. 27.
Rumor said they were running from police. Soon, dozens of angry young men came from the soulless high-rises looking for cops to fight and cars to burn on streets named, as it happens, after heroes of French culture: boulevard Emile Zola, allee Albert Camus, rue Picasso. Dead white men. "It's Baghdad here," the rioters shouted. Night after night last week, rage spread through the ghettos that ring Paris, then beyond to every corner of France.
When a tear-gas canister exploded near a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois on the fourth violent evening, a new cry went up. "Now this is war," said one of the vandals. Others cried "jihad."
It was neither, in fact, and Paris—the capital known to tourists—was not burning. But by using cell-phone text messages to coordinate their incendiary flash-mobs, rioters in the city's suburbs managed to burn thousands of cars, as well as buses, warehouses and stores.
More than 200 people were arrested and there were many injuries, some serious, even if by last weekend no one had been killed. (The Los Angeles riots of 1992, by contrast, took the lives of more than 50 people.) What really shook the French government, and badly, was its inability to contain the metastasizing anger.
Decades of French policies intended to force the integration of immigrants and their children—and children's children—into French society had failed, and no Plan B was apparent.
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No 'plan B'? I bet many will differ with that statement...
When are the French police going to start with shoot to kill orders? I hope they dont destroy Monmarte. That is such a beautiful place in the south of Paris.
Hmmm. Lets see.
Two youths electrocute themselves by going into a location that is off limits because of the safety hazard and it is our (the French) fault?
Angry my eye. They're vicious, idle and amoral. Anger has nothing to do with it.
Get back to the 'thesis' on why they rioted.
This is not "Rodney King". The police did not beat the youths. They did not throw them onto the transformer.
The kids electrocuted themselves.
Yet somehow they view this as a cause to riot.
Iran will have the a-bomb shortly, and Paris will be on the hit list.
Impossible. The AP in my paper never mentioned Islam in connection with the insurrection and conflagration in France.
Once mob mentality is in play, it's much tougher to bring any semblance of reason or calm to the frey.
You'd have to have a plan A before you move to B...at least in English...maybe the French alphabet is different.
Unless this is stopped soon, I think that it will only escalate. And giving in to whatever "demands" this scum makes, will embolden them.
Nov. 14, 2005 issue ?????
Lets see if it makes it to print
Too stoooopid about electricity, kicks harder than camel. Failure of frenchie eeeducaution!
LOL. Indeed.
It might make more sense if they burned a power plant mightn't it? How do the poor get cell phones? Are they issued in France like food stamps.
The NEW Crusades?
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