Posted on 11/02/2005 6:24:41 AM PST by blam
Chirac Warns of Firm Response to Rioting
Wednesday November 2, 2005 1:16 PM
By CHRISTINE OLLIVIER
Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac, intervening after six nights of rioting in suburban Paris, called Wednesday for calm and said authorities will use a firm hand to curtail what may become a ``dangerous situation.''
The violence, sparked initially by the deaths of two teenagers, has exposed the despair, anger and deep-rooted criminality in the poor suburbs, where police hesitate to venture and which have proved fertile terrain for Islamic extremists.
``The law must be applied firmly and in a spirit of dialogue and respect,'' Chirac said at a Cabinet meeting. ``The absence of dialogue and an escalation of a lack of respect will lead to a dangerous situation.''
Chirac's remarks were passed on to reporters by government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope.
The rioting, which spread Tuesday night to at least nine Paris-region towns, has exposed rifts in Chirac's government, with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - a potential 2007 presidential candidate - being criticized for his tough talk and police tactics.
It also has renewed debate about France's failure to fully integrate its millions of immigrants, many of whom are trapped in poverty and grinding unemployment, living in low-cost, sometimes decrepit, suburban housing estates where gangs dealing drugs and stolen goods sometimes are in control.
That Chirac intervened personally was a measure of the crisis. He acknowledged the ``profound frustrations'' of troubled neighborhoods but said violence was not the answer and that efforts must be stepped up to combat it.
``Zones without law cannot exist in the republic,'' the French leader said.
In Tuesday night's clashes, riot police fired rubber bullets at advancing gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois, where 15 cars were burned, officials said. Youths lobbed Molotov cocktails at an annex to the town hall and threw stones at the firehouse. It was not immediately clear whether there were any injuries.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told Europe-1 radio that police detained 34 people overnight.
Sarkozy - blamed by many for fanning the violence with his ``zero-tolerance'' approach to suburban crime - defended his approach and vowed to restore calm. He recently called rioters ``scum'' and vowed to ``clean out'' troubled suburbs.
Housing projects to the north and northeast of Paris are heavily populated by North African Muslim immigrants.
Because of the unrest, Sarkozy canceled a visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan planned to begin Sunday, his office announced Wednesday.
The rioting began Thursday in the northeastern suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois after the electrocutions of two teenagers hiding in a power substation because they believed police were chasing them.
Officials have said police were not pursuing the boys, aged 17 and 15.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met Tuesday evening with the parents of the three families, promising a full investigation of the deaths and insisting on ``the need to restore calm.''
In the northeastern suburb of Bondy, 14 cars were burned and four people arrested for throwing stones at police, authorities said.
Once again the French use the appeasement approach to no avail.
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They were stupid to let these sub-humans in to begin with, now they are paying the price, the French way.
Wonder whether De Villipan asked the familes if they had taught their sons that playing with electricity (they were killed running into an electric power substation when electricuted) was dangerous and could lead to tragic consequences.
The French rioters are really "Insurgents". The MSM should repect that fact and give them their due. They are as noble as those in Gaza who throw stones for a living. Jacques just needs instruct the mayor to give them the keys to the city, etc.
Meaning, he'll switch from Brie to Emmental Français
Cheese eating surrender monkeys. Does anyone question the validity of the phrase? The french can't wait to throw in the towel.
Here is a plan:
Bring in the military, with real bullets.
Use them.
I suggest they follow the US method of riot defusing. Let the rioters burn out the lower working class who are skeptical of liberalism, then provide rioters with lifetime welfare bennies while at the same time allow a media campaign to create myths that the "oppressed" are akin to Jesus Christ and the early martyrs. Then in forty years marvel how things have progressed to where large scale gatherings of the "oppressed" call for the extermination of the providing nation.
will use a firm hand to curtail
A firm hand ... to hold the surrender flag? Pardon my skepticism. Let's hope this is a real turning point for the French regarding their assimilation-shy radical immigrant groups and the trouble they continue to cause.
Cut off their generous welfare and housing benefits and give them a one-way ride back to Africa!
Here is a plan: Bring in the military, with real bullets. Use them.Spoken like a George Bush cowboy. No self-respecting cheese eating surrender monkey would ever talk or think that way.
Jacques Dinkins.
Some now say the biggest threat of terrorists emerging is from Europe not the Middle/Far East.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513947/posts
"The French rioters are really "Insurgents". The MSM should repect that fact and give them their due. "
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Like the MSM here -- calling the thugs in Iraq and elsewhere "insurgents" or "rebels" or my favorite (gag) "freedom fighters" -- they are none of the above. They are criminal thugs and terrorists, and the only way to stop them is to use force. No dialog, no inviting them to tea, no negotiation. Force -- swift and deadly.
Worth remembering: the two "youths" were "electrocuted" when they VOLUNTARILY jumped a fence at a power station.
No cops shot them.
No cops made them jump the fence.
They were stupid, they lived stupid, they died stupid, and now the utterly stupid French government is wringing it's hands over the utterly stupid riots that have ensued.
Is there no one in France with an IQ over 6?
Firm Response:
Extra starch in the white flags.
If I were French I'd have a "don't blame me, I voted for LePen" bumpersticker.
France, for now. The rest of Europe can wait 'til later.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/775282/posts
I'm afraid their Jihadi allies in Iraq and Gaza wouldn't understand the French using force against the Jihadis in France.
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