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...
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French Liberals recruited North African muslims and now they have to live with them. Suckers!
That seems to be working because we are letting it work.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
TRump makes the race, sex, gender monger Marxist look idiotic, unAmerican, and treasonous.He will stop them cold. This is why they fear him so much.
All we have to do is elect Trump to office.Its really the only shot we have left, and we must not miss that shot.
They let them in, fed them, housed them. LOL
That's a wonderfully succinct way of explaining the demon that sleeps within all government. Now we're witnessing what happens when that demon awakes and starts rampaging through a society.
But what these fear-filled, amoral scumbags don't seem to realize is that all it takes to flip the game on its head and turn them into the lab rats and "the hunted" is one chaotic, unpredictable person or one cataclysmic event over which they do not have control.
Their greatest weakness is their self-assured, self-impressed view of themselves and the fact that they see themselves as gods.
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