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Youths riot in French town
AFP ^ | 010/05/2007

Posted on 10/05/2007 10:34:44 AM PDT by Republicain

Saint-Dizier, France - French police clashed overnight with youths who went on a rampage in a town in eastern France, prompting Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to travel to the trouble spot.

Between 40 and 50 masked youths used metal bars to smash a firefighters' vehicle and a police car dispatched to a shopping mall in Saint-Dizier, said Yves Guillot, the head of the Haute-Marne regional government.

The youths then fanned out across the town of 30 000 inhabitants, setting fire to two buildings, a car rental office and 16 vehicles. Police reinforcements were sent in to quell the violence.

"We are trying to understand what happened. We have had clashes in our town but not on this scale," said Mayor Francois Cornut-Gentille.

The youths are said to be residents of Saint-Dizier's low-income housing project, Vert-bois, which is home to 12 000 people.

Alliot-Marie was due to travel to Saint-Dizier, some 200km east of Paris, after police and fire emergency authorities were targeted in the violence, her office said.

Hundreds of suburbs across France exploded into rioting for three weeks in late 2005, highlighting the nation's failure to integrate its Arab and African immigrants.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrymuslims; france; riot; saintdizie; saintdizier; youths; yutes
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To: Da Coyote
Oh no, please. Not my Peugeot.
101 posted on 10/05/2007 5:55:17 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: rockabyebaby

I think you need to move.


102 posted on 10/05/2007 6:01:19 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: diamond6

I’ve been thinking. We need a national animal, sort of like the national bird.

What about a pig?


103 posted on 10/05/2007 6:07:11 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Charles Martel
1,275th anniversary of the conclusion of the Battle of Tours

Your work there is well remembered and much admired, Hammer.

104 posted on 10/05/2007 6:07:57 PM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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To: cajungirl

a pig would be good just as long as we don’t dress it up in clothes—a naked pig, just like God made it


105 posted on 10/05/2007 6:16:15 PM PDT by Taffini
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To: Republicain

It’s that time of the year again already?


106 posted on 10/05/2007 6:43:44 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear
It's odd... I remember a travel agent's office that I saw many years ago - it had a large poster that read: "France glows in Autumn".

Yep - it's all the burning Renaults and Citroens.

107 posted on 10/05/2007 9:24:38 PM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: RachelFaith

OMG I caught myself looking for the Looter Guy in that picture - not examining the actual picture itself.


108 posted on 10/05/2007 9:43:41 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Republicain

It’s those darned Amish again, right?


109 posted on 10/06/2007 10:26:53 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: Republicain

Probably Christian malcontents.


110 posted on 10/06/2007 10:29:19 AM PDT by hershey
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"We are trying to understand what happened."

LOL

111 posted on 10/06/2007 10:38:11 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: Republicain
Just an obvious comment on the effects of welfare housing, here. So many youths that live in the subsidized housing get in trouble, join gangs, prey on inhabitants of the projects, tear up the housing, etc. They have free housing, help with the utilities, food stamps, medicaid for health ins, or some other state/fed program (like SCHIPS). If the families were required to work in order to receive; if they could get help only for a limited time--would things be different? I think they would.

My husband is in late seventies and he had the proverbial farmboy upbringing-had to milk the cows before school. Walked to a country school, carrying a leftover biscuit and, hopefully a piece of bacon for lunch. In HS could not play sports because he had chores. Turned out to be a good, hardworking, responsible man.Our kids, now from 45 to 52, had responsibilities at home or they didn't get their allowance. They griped, but all learned how to work. It is a good character builder.

Too many free handouts make lazy, gimme characters, and the Dems are busy inventing more<.p>vaudine

112 posted on 10/06/2007 10:54:01 AM PDT by vaudine (RO)
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To: Sandy
Nearly half the people in this town live in one housing project? WTF?

Here's a map of the city, with the "off limits to non-Muslims" area marked in red. You're right. It is about one third of the town.

Saint Dizier - Vert Bois

This comes from a French publication which shows the hundreds of ATLAS DES ZONES URBAINES SENSIBLES "off limits" areas in France, which native non-Muslim Frenchmen are warned to avoid for their own safety.

113 posted on 10/06/2007 11:01:37 AM PDT by Gritty (Europe died in Auschwitz. We replaced 6 million Jews with 20 million Muslims-Sebastian Rodriguez)
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To: El Gato
Can't be, the French kicked them out the country a long time ago

And we still remember that. Along with other incidents which led to our departure.

114 posted on 10/06/2007 11:04:17 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: cajungirl
What about a pig?

If it's got to be a pig, I nominate this guy's offspring.


115 posted on 10/06/2007 9:54:27 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Holicheese
Detroit, but that's in low-class America. (/s)

I mean really, a car fire in October?

116 posted on 10/06/2007 9:58:54 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: vaudine
ust an obvious comment on the effects of welfare housing, here. So many youths that live in the subsidized housing get in trouble, join gangs, prey on inhabitants of the projects, tear up the housing, etc. They have free housing, help with the utilities, food stamps, medicaid for health ins, or some other state/fed program (like SCHIPS)

Lack of a father, who is not needed to provide for the physical needs of the mother and children seems to be a big factor as well.

Even if the father is present, which is probably the case with these French Muzzies, if he's not the provider, and is not respected by the mother and children, because they don't see him *doing* anything, also contributes to the "Rage".

And then when that rage is directed by a Mad Mullah at the local Mosque, you get this sort of thing, or worse.

117 posted on 10/06/2007 10:00:01 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Well, he is mighty fine pig.


118 posted on 10/07/2007 6:02:09 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl
Well, he is mighty fine pig.

With a pig like that as the national mammal, the Diamondback Rattler being the national reptile (Don't Tread On Me!), we would have little problem with lack of cojones.

119 posted on 10/07/2007 8:34:25 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: tracer

They refuse to talk about Marcel’s death...

Yes they are internalizing, and their angst is manifesting in this violence.


120 posted on 10/08/2007 10:29:44 AM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Message received, is message sent" Claire Cooper)
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