Posted on 07/22/2009 9:49:25 PM PDT by Lorianne
Via the Brussels Journal, news that the French authorities are trying to make the media downplay the latest round of rioting:
Only the figures for the night of July 13-14 were published: “Some 500 vehicles” were burned, the worst ever recorded for the eve of the national holiday. Despite repeated requests to the Interior Ministry, and the DGPN [similar to the FBI], no figures were forthcoming for the night of July 14-15. These orders have been strictly applied. The different prefectures contacted by Le Monde refused to respond, citing “ministerial instructions.” Regional news media reported the same problem. The daily La Provence issued an unofficial report that was much less favorable than 2008: 41 cars and a day-care center in Marseilles burned. […]
Other local papers describe the same problems. In Reims, the daily L’Union denounces the attitude of the authorities: “Yesterday morning, every journalist who came, even for the smallest piece of news, to the firemen, or gendarmes or police, heard the same answer: ‘No fires’. In fact, the truth is quite different. Some of those we questioned admitted under their breath: ‘We cannot say anything about the fires. We have received orders.” In Lyons, the daily Le Progrès reports the same blackout: “Orders not to speak on the radio were given to firemen, gendarmes and police.”
It seems to outsiders that France has lost control of its banlieues, and this despite spending a fortune on them – the country spends a very generous 1.8 per cent of its annual budget on social housing.
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If anyone reads French can you please sumarize for us:
Nuits du 14-Juillet : la Place Beauvau impose le silence sur le nombre de voitures incendiées
http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/07/17/nuits-du-14-juillet-la-place-beauvau-impose-le-silence-sur-le-nombre-de-voitures-incendiees_1219875_3224.html
News Blackout: Violence In France
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/07/news-blackout-violence-in-france.php
If anyone reads French can you please sumarize for us:
Nuits du 14-Juillet : la Place Beauvau impose le silence sur le nombre de voitures incendiées
Uh.....tourism?
France could fall in to civil war.
But hey, they have the best healthcare system in the world. :D
Probably because its no big deal - the “muslim youth” are burning several hundred cars EVERY NIGHT!
English soccer hooligans
What is it about the ghettos in Europe and burning cars?
Yeah, but European nations are so much more progressive than us backwoods American folk. /s (as if I really needed it)
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