Posted on 11/06/2005 7:54:34 PM PST by Pikamax
10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities By CRAIG S. SMITH PARIS, Monday, Nov. 7 - Rioters fired shotguns at the police in a working-class suburb of Paris on Sunday, wounding 10 officers as the country's fast-spreading urban unrest escalated dangerously. Just hours earlier, President Jacques Chirac called an emergency meeting of top security officials and promised increased police pressure to confront the violence.
"The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Mr. Chirac said at a news conference in the courtyard of Élysée Palace after meeting with his internal security council. "The last word must be from the law."
But the violence, which has become one of the most serious challenges to governmental authority here in nearly 40 years, showed no sign of abating, and Sunday was the first day that police officers had been wounded by gunfire in the unrest. More than 3,300 vehicles have been destroyed, along with dozens of public buildings and private businesses, since the violence began.
"This is just the beginning," said Moussa Diallo, 22, a tall, unemployed French-African man in Clichy-sous-Bois, the working-class Parisian suburb where the violence started Oct. 27. "It's not going to end until there are two policemen dead."
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This could spread across the pond
The french cops need to follow NYPD procedure in dealing with 22 year olds named Diallo.
How can it be a "working class" suburb if nobody has any jobs there?
"cities?" Plural? I thought this was in Paris. Is there more going on that the MSM isn't telling? (Is the Pope Catholic?)
""It was a good excuse, but it's fun to set cars on fire," said Mohamed Hammouti, a 15-year-old boy in Clichy-sous-Bois"
He'd have fun picking the buckshot out of his @ss in my neck of the woods, at a minimum.
Man, if this happened in Chicago, it would have been "shoot to kill" a *long* time ago.
Are the snipers out on strike?
Too little, too late.
The law of unintended consequences has kicked in. The crowd has learned that the police are scared of them, that the police will not engage them, will not punish them, and will not pursue them.
A little bit of force 10 days ago; and this non-sense would be squashed. The Muslums now know what cowards the Frogs really are. This is only the beginning; and I can honestly say that I really don't care who wins. One enemy is forthright in his hatred of us; the other is two-faced.
Americans have a second amendment. They would not last long here.
Maybe a little action might convince the people. So far Chirac has only dealt in words.
Of course. The intifada is all over the country, from the Mediterranean to the German border.
"This could spread across the pond"
Not likely.
It sounds as if the French are reluctant to use overwhelming force to quell this problem. Declare a curfew, shoot violators. It seems to work elsewhere.
Another issue is the fact that Muslims in Europe are not likely to integrate into the culture as they are here. Muslims are not accepted and are looked upon as a lower class.
just added a 9MM yesterday
Chicago don't allow no guns.
Sure wouldn't be the gubment shootin' them.
Let's get it over with then.
Good call.
LOL
I would at this time prescribe a proven , tried and true IDF solution of the supressed ruger 10-22 scoped .22 rimfire and start kneecapping the little moltov chucking islamakazi ring leaders and their minions........if the authorities keep messing with them they just keep going to a mess.
Some days ya just have to say WTF and create a few limpin gimps to remind em of the Allah Fubar reality.
I wonder what it's like to be too sophisticated to defend one's self and one's property. If nothing else, at least the French won't get chilly with all those fires burning.
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