I just meant the fact that he let the riots go on for four days. You're not from NY, I take it.
actually I am from NYC. But while I think very little of Dinkins who allowed what I perceive as a very controllable mob to run riot, I have more respect for Sarkozy and his much bigger less easily controlled problem. Sarkozy has cracked down more than anyone else in France.
From the article:
Laurent Fabius, a former Socialist prime minister and also a potential presidential candidate in 2007, mocked Sarkozy's frequent visits to areas such as Clichy.
"When he announces that he's going to visit such and such a commune or suburb every week, that's not how we resolve those problems," Fabius told Europe 1 radio.
"We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play the cowboy."
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Note the "cowboy" reference, an allusion to Sarkozy's law and order approach and a dig at the US too.