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.
"Chirac Warns of Firm Response to Rioting
Wednesday November 2, 2005 1:16 PM
By CHRISTINE OLLIVIER"
Geez - Did Paris just win the EU summer NBA title?
However, if it becomes clear to the Libs that they are threatened, no one is more vicious, or brutal.I am skeptical. If it is trampling the rights of Christian parents to home-school, or something like that, then yes, the liberals wouldn't hesitate to tear the "offender" to pieces, with all the force and fury of a lynchmob.
But when it comes to actually being critical of a declared "wonderful people" (declared by the left, on a global basis), I think the liberals are paralyzed with fear. Not fear of the "wonderful people" themselves, but fear of going against the leftist agitprop that defines their own core existence.
In other words, the cheese eating surrender monkeys would have no problem turning over Jewish families to a nazi mob, but to go against anything that is sacred to the left (and right now Islamofacism is sacred to the left)... this they cannot do.
I don't know, maybe he'll puit them all on "Double-Secret" Probation.
Perfect! Thank you.
"In other words, the cheese eating surrender monkeys would have no problem turning over Jewish families to a nazi mob, but to go against anything that is sacred to the left (and right now Islamofacism is sacred to the left)... this they cannot do."
Yet another illustration of the schism in the left. The left really is clueless. They fight the mixture of religion and state down to the stupidest detail. But they love islam. Do they not know of sharia law? Are they not aware that when muslims take over, there will be no separation of mosque and state?
The left screamed and screeched for women's rights. Do they not know how muslims treat women?
The left's self loathing, and hate for all things Christian must blind them to the danger they face from the muslim fascists.
It is obvious that a "two-state" solution is needed. It is reprehensible that Chirac continues to refuse to give these "insurgents" a homeland, no?
Does their military still have real bullets? Someone might get hurt!
Suicidal immigration policies strike again.
After he goes to Indonesia and explains it to the parents of the 3 teen girls who were beheaded last week.
I suggested that in an email I sent Tony Blair objecting to Charlie's visit tob the US to lecture us. What an idiot!
??? 'Dialog', M. Chirac???
Here's all the 'dialog' you need for these bastards.
I agree. Actually I am rather enjoying seeing the reaction of the Frenchies and MSM to the insurrection & rioting in France by Muslims, and to see Chirac get his shorts all bunched up with indignation and calls for treating this firmly with dialogue and respect - yah, right, I bet the Muslim radicals & extremists will really respond to that. You gotta wonder how long the Frenchies will keep up their appeasement and capitulation until they realize they are in a fight for their lives and act to wipe out the insurrection. You're right, once Libs & left-wingers realize that their power base is really being threatened, they will react with unbridled savagery and brutality. Ref. the Stalinist regime!
The left screamed and screeched for women's rights. Do they not know how muslims treat women?I would fight to the death against an Islamic takeover of the US, but as I was dying I would smile at the thought of all those NOW bitches down on their knees to their new Islamofacist masters.
Sorry I was not more obvious. I was being sarcastic about these rioters in Paris being labelled as "insurgents" by the MSM.
{quote}"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. "{quote}
I love it. Blame it on the one guy who has a zero tolerance towards these Islamofacists. If you ask me, his not HARD enough on the savages. Bring back Vlad the Impaler, is what I say!! ...and turn their third world homes into parking lots for our SUVs.
No he should hire Carter to write the letter.
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