French Police Clash With Youths in Lyon

AP ^ | 11/12/5 | JOCELYN GECKER

[SmithL]

PARIS -- Thousands of Parisian police guarded the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees and train stations on Saturday as part of emergency measures enacted in response to text messages and Internet postings that called for "violent actions" in the capital. In Lyon, France's third largest city, police fired tear gas to disperse stone-hurling youths at the historic Place Bellecour.

It was the first time in 17 days of unrest that youths clashed with police in a major city.

Hours earlier, authorities had announced a weekend curfew in Lyon, barring youths under 18 from being outside without adult supervision between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

In separate incidents Saturday night in the southern city of Carpentras, rioters rammed burning cars into the side of a retirement home and a school. A second school and linen store were also set ablaze there.

The violence started in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois on Oct. 27 when about 100 youths rioted to protest the accidental deaths of two Muslim teens who were electrocuted while hiding from police in an electricity substation.

The turmoil, marked by arson and clashes with police, quickly spread across France in housing projects plagued by unemployment and alienation. The unrest has forced France to confront its failure to integrate minorities and the anger simmering among its large African and Arab communities.

The emergency measures in Paris came a day after cell phone text messages and Internet blog postings called for "violent actions" in Paris on Saturday evening. Authorities banned public gatherings considered risky in an effort to keep the unrest from reaching inside the capital.

"This is not a rumor," National Police Chief Michel Gaudin said. "One can easily imagine the places where we must be highly vigilant."

[SmithL]

Celebrate Diversity!

[ncountylee]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521142/posts

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[Carling]

"Youths"

LOL at the MSM.

[Southack]

The MSM keeps referring to "youths," but fails to point out that there are no females involved.

There is a gender gap. Why?!

France's massive riots back in 1968 had many, perhaps even mostly, women rioters.

Today it's an all male affair...something that punches a big hole in the "oppressed minorities" theory and sinks the "unemployed rioters" theory (no females are oppressed or unemployed today compared to 1968?!).

So part of the news story isn't being told by the MSM. Why the difference today in gender participation from that of 1968?

[BurbankKarl]

In your hurry to be FORUM POLICE, you linked this post.

[SmithL]

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Nope, I only posted it once.

[pepsionice]

You know...from all those videos I saw of the rioting....you are right...not one single girl in the bunch. Why is that? Don't Muslim girls suffer the same injustice? Are they not getting jobs either? Whats the catch here?

[river rat]

Diversity is our Strength....
Multiculturalism is the wave of the future...
All cultures are equal.....

Leftist imbecilic Bull Squat.

Semper Fi

[little jeremiah]

From what I've read less than a third arrested were minors.

[SmithL]

Don't Muslim girls suffer the same injustice?

Their men protect them from all this injustice by making them stay inside after dark.

[Tempest]

Ramming burning cars into retirement homes a schools.

Oh my the boredom and unemployment really causes people to do strange things....

I hope the government spends taxpayer money so that these youths have a productive outlet to express their anger.....

[BurbankKarl]

Turned on Old Glory and am getting a good signal tonight....

Dr. Bill can rip on Bernie Ward all he wants, Dr Bill has a higher number of listeners....Plus he does the show from high up in the Sierras in Greenville on his ranch.

[DB]

Why I thought it was all over with now that France has enacted the all powerful curfew...

[The Red Zone]

Turn loose wild hogs and wild dogs in those ghettos.

[modest proposal]

and a bunch of drunk irishmen and scotsmen armed with pistols lol

[Dallas59]

[modest proposal]

i love the way all the articles call them "youths" which brings to mind images of little boys in sailor shorts with lollypops and toy boats.

they are grown men if they are 18+

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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Kindly note tagline:

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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Kindly note tagline:

[modest proposal]

stop posting that LA picture its brazen audacity is annoying :P

[backhoe]

its brazen audacity is annoying :P

That's the idea- I hope it shocks people into putting their brains in gear, and thinking about it.