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'We are at war': French police vow to hit back after rioters steal speeding bus and smash fast car into a Lidl as funeral is held for 17-year-old shot by officer and Macron cancels Germany trip
Daily Mail ^ | 7/01/23 | Christian Oliver, Peter Allen, Miriam Kuepper

Posted on 07/02/2023 2:08:59 AM PDT by Libloather

French police have declared they are 'at war' with 'savage hordes of vermin' amid widespread rioting and looting that saw a bus stolen and a car smashed into a supermarket front.

Two police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron's government restored order amid protests sparked by the killing of a French-Algerian teenager by police on Tuesday - also causing the French president to cancel his trip to Germany.

'Today the police are in combat because we are at war,' a report from the unions said. 'Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this.'

It comes as marauding gangs of rioters clashed with police again last night leading to 1,300 arrests. Footage showed the extreme chaos on French streets as rioters were seen speeding in a bus and smashing a car into the front of a Lidl supermarket.

The friends and family of Nahel today attended the funeral of the 17-year-old shot at point-blank range by an officer at a traffic stop earlier this week.

Looters have ransacked dozens of shops and torched 2,000 vehicles since the start of the riots, which have spread to cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille.

More than 200 police officers have been injured, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, adding that the average age of those arrested was 17.

Friday night's arrests included 80 people in Marseille, home to many people of North African descent.

Social media images showed an explosion rocking the old port area of the southern city, but no casualties were reported.

A gunman yesterday also opened up on police and a weapons shop was looted.

An officer in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, described how 'gunfire started' as a patrol entered a council estate where tower blocks had been set alight in the early hours...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: asylum; bus; civilunrest; europe; france; immigration; macron; migration; refugees; riot
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To: Libloather

Open up Devil’s Island and FILL IT


61 posted on 07/02/2023 5:39:58 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RoosterRedux
On the other hand, weak people and soft countries won't fix problems until they reach a level of extreme disorder...

That's simply a consequence of elected government. The problem has to reach a point where the majority of people reach the conclusion that it's a problem that requires fixing.

Until then, you either move or you grind your teeth and endure it.

62 posted on 07/02/2023 5:42:32 AM PDT by Captain Walker (Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.-Pascal)
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To: Captain Walker
That's simply a consequence of elected government.

Very true in that elected government, in and of itself, is a slow-to-react mechanism.

But some governments and their electorates are weaker and less reactive than others. France has been notoriously weaker and slower to react than most.

63 posted on 07/02/2023 5:46:50 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: Libloather
Eventually Macron will crack down on ... The Yellow Vests.

64 posted on 07/02/2023 5:49:35 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Libloather
FWIW...

Live: French police arrest hundreds amid decline in violence in fifth night of unrest

Le Monde is reporting similar.

65 posted on 07/02/2023 5:57:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Libloather

I just heard on the news that Antifa is heavily involved in this.


66 posted on 07/02/2023 6:07:07 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: peggybac

Antifa will make it’s return to the US starting the summer of ‘24. If MAGA can stop The Cheat, Antifa will blow up in size and make 2019/2020 look like Sunday tea.


67 posted on 07/02/2023 6:12:41 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (It's The Clown Show.)
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To: mewzilla

Yes, paper ballot, hand counted.


68 posted on 07/02/2023 6:17:34 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Libloather

Arrest? How about summary deporation?


69 posted on 07/02/2023 6:29:46 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: McGruff

70 posted on 07/02/2023 6:31:57 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

Actually, my post above is largely in jest, partially because the French have tried to rehabilitate their army after WWI, WWII, and Dien Bien Phu, and partly because our own military is going down that same road defeated by woke-ism.


71 posted on 07/02/2023 6:35:25 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Candor7

What we are seeing in the world is a common recognition over the last30 years by the Marxist movers and shakers that the class warfare aspect of Marxism won’t work at all in countries (such as Western ones) that have large, happy, and relatively prosperous middle classes.

Marx’s theories just fail outright in that dynamic.

So they have changed. They have substituted race, culture, and sex warfare for class warfare.

That seems to be working because we are letting it work.


72 posted on 07/02/2023 6:42:12 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Libloather
France needs a reincarnation of Charles Martel. Or Saint Patrick.

Then send them our way, because we have the same vermin problem.

73 posted on 07/02/2023 7:05:40 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Libloather
France at war.

Maybe we should “lend lease” them some white flags.

74 posted on 07/02/2023 7:13:43 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: CFW

Reaping what they have sowed.


75 posted on 07/02/2023 7:15:00 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Libloather

The correct response is;

“Fix Bayonets and advance to the border.” Any that do not back down can run back to their shit-hole countries or they can be buried in a pit somewhere in the French countryside.

The French did this to themselves. Maybe the rest of the West will figure this out before we burn too.


76 posted on 07/02/2023 7:16:44 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
In 2023, France will be defeated by its own immigrants.

.....and then they will become an Islamic State.

77 posted on 07/02/2023 7:20:02 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: Libloather

‘Today the police are in combat because we are at war,’ a report from the unions said. ‘Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this.’

Seems like a THREAT to the government there. I wonder if Macron understands that he’s far less popular in France than Putin is in Russia. A few more days of this could lead to new leadership in Paris.


78 posted on 07/02/2023 7:30:40 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: mund1011

Minorities and young people, (i.e. uninformed - ill informed) voters, LOVE creeps like that!


79 posted on 07/02/2023 7:45:43 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: Rocco DiPippo
The absurd West is now paying a heavy price for allowing leftist filth, sexual degenerates and anti-White, anti-Christian pigs to convince it to reject everything that made it powerful, prosperous and coherent.

Yes, Really bad things happen when governments pretend things to be true that aren't true:

Witch hunts pretended that witches are real.

Slavery pretended that black people aren't fully human.

The Holocaust pretended that Jewish people aren't fully human.

Abortion pretends that preborn humans aren't fully human.

And pretending that homosexuality is normal is causing all kinds of problems.

80 posted on 07/02/2023 8:31:16 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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