Sixth night of riots in Paris

CNN Associated Press Report ^ | Tuesday, November 1, 2005 | Unknown

[Ray66]

Sixth night of riots in Paris Minister accused of inflaming tensions PARIS, France (AP) -- Violence erupted for a sixth night Tuesday in the troubled suburbs northeast of Paris with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas as they faced down gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois, according to witnesses. A store set afire in the nearby suburb of Bondy, France-Info radio reported. No trouble was immediately reported in Clichy-sous-Bois, where rioting began last Thursday following the accidental deaths of two teenagers. The latest violence broke out as Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris with youths and officials from Clichy-sous-Bois. An Associated Press Television news team reported confrontations between about 20 police and 40 youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. France-Info said that about 100 fires burning in numerous suburbs of the Seine-Saint-Denis region, an area of soaring unemployment, delinquency and other urban ills. A carpet store in the town of Bondy was set afire, and cars were burning in Bondy and Sevran, France-Info reported. Police said 13 people were jailed following rioting late Monday and early Tuesday in Clichy-sous-Bois and three other suburbs. A total of 68 cars were torched in a handful of suburbs, LCI television reported, while police said 21 cars -- two of them police vehicles -- were set on fire in Clichy-sous-Bois on Monday night.

[highlander_UW]

When a bunch of people in Detroit riot over the "march" of something like 13 nazis it is broadcast the world over. Why have I not seen one single second of coverage of a SIX DAY RIOT in Paris on the news? (any channel...even FOX)

[Dark Skies]

However, Villepin will win the Presidency. Sarkozy is in an impossible situation. He cannot truly "win" the riots, because all of the same people will be in place, and hating him, and agitating, and of course he will get the blame. Villepin will not remove him, because a crackdown is needed, and Sarkozy is Villepin's only potential rival for the presidency. So, Villepin will allow Sarkozy to fight the fight, and take the arrows, and do what is necessary, but Villepin will provide the healing balm and get the credit, and he will emerge the political victor.

Dead wrong!

I will try to come back here tomorrow and respond. Villepin is running to become captain of the Titanic. Sarkozy is fighting to save France, even Europe...against Islam. Even France isn't that stupid. I hope?

[syriacus]

The Bastille

[Vicomte13]

"Dead wrong!
I will try to come back here tomorrow and respond. Villepin is running to become captain of the Titanic. Sarkozy is fighting to save France, even Europe...against Islam. Even France isn't that stupid. I hope?"

It truly does not matter who would be the better man, or what his motivations might be, or what Americans think. What matters is who the French will vote for. Dominique de Villepin has emerged, as Prime Minister, from the shadow of Chirac, and has shown himself to be much smoother and more flexible than anyone suspected. He does not rankle in the way that Sarkhozy does. His proposals lightening the burden of the 35 Hours threaded the needle, and reformed labor law somewhat for the better. That is to touch the third rail of French politics, and he did it without provoking a general strike.
Sarkozy is tougher, to be sure, but that is not enough. He must show that he can resolve the problems. A week of disturbances with no end in sight - or envisionable without an overall policy - this will not help Sarkozy. In the end, Villepin has the upper hand and will win the Presidency.

[LibertyRocks]

This looks like an updated article...

Unrest spreads to nine French towns
CNN.com - POSTED: Wednesday, November 2, 2005; Posted: 2:07 a.m. EST (07:07 GMT)

EXCERPT:
PARIS, France (AP) -- Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris in a sixth night of violence as police clashed with angry youths and scores of vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said.
(...)The area, home mainly to families of immigrant origin, often from Muslim North Africa, is marked by soaring unemployment and delinquency. Anger and despair thrive in the tall cinder-block towers and long "bars" that typically make up housing projects in France.

[syriacus]

Maybe the young men were attempting to illegally tap the power lines

[Lady Heron]

That is why I don't understand the gleeful attitude.

Maybe just maybe it could be that it is the muslims who are doing the rioting on French soil that is causing the glee. The French are finally having to face reality.

[Lady Heron]

It truly does not matter who would be the better man, or what his motivations might be, or what Americans think. What matters is who the French will vote for.

LOL! So true.

[asp1]

If it was just Paris I would kick back and pass the popcorn. But my dour mood comes from the fact that I see this happening to the entire western world. Little by little muslims are pushing and probing to see how much they can get away with. Last week (or the week before), Britain suffered through rioting from their "Asian" and black communities. We are at war with muslims and it seems that the only people who realize it are 50% of the US and a few Brits. Muslims cannot live peacefully along side of anyone.

I hope France wakes up. I hope the other 50% of our country wakes up too. :0)

[dervish]

"When Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California in 2003, all French politicians sneered, except one. For Nicolas Sarkozy, the leader of a center-right Gaullist party and the son of a Hungarian refugee, the rise to power of the Austrian-born Hollywood star was a sure sign of modernity.

Commenting soon after Schwarzenegger’s election victory, Sarkozy said, “ [that] someone who’s a foreigner in his country, who has an unpronounceable name and can become governor of the biggest American state—that is not nothing!”

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3112&page=0

What a nice switch his election would be. He admires the US.

[Lady Heron]

We (with the Brits, Poles and Aussies) and the Russians are the only ones who realize we are at war with the muslims. Though the Russians still have not figured that one totally out, because they are fighting the ones on their soil but supporting Iran and Syria against us.

The glee against arrogant France is the swift kick in the ass they are getting from their own muslims within(how much have they tried to undercut our efforts??). Granted every country in the West who has let this population in is going to deal with them sooner or later.

[dervish]

When the French authorities ignored the anti-Semitic violence against the French Jewish community by Muslim youth, violence which rose to historic levels after the beginning of the Intifada in 2000, they set the stage for these riots.

The French police and politicians were afraid to tackle the problem and clean out the "scum." Neighborhoods were no go zones. They empowered the mobs.

[cyn]

"You can see it in his face."

I love that look (#29) ... it was what I loved about "When the man comes around." We are at our best when our leaders, and we, have it.

Great quote on your homepage, Dark Skies.

[Jeff Head]

Unbelievable...such people are asking for a totalitarian government of the worst sort.