Posted on 11/02/2005 4:27:04 PM PST by Flavius
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.
Police in riot gear fired rubber bullets late Tuesday at advancing gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois -- one of the worst-hit suburbs -- where 15 cars were burned, according to officials in the Seine-Saint-Denis region.
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 injuries from the clashes.
Four people were arrested for throwing stones at police in nearby Bondy where 14 cars were burned, the prefecture said. A fire engulfed a carpet store, but it was not immediately clear whether the blaze was linked to the suburban unrest.
Officials gave an initial count of 69 vehicles torched in nine suburbs across the Seine-Saint-Denis region that arcs Paris on the north and northeast.
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.
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I think it's more like "adieu"
A much maligned novel, Camp of the Saints. The harsh realities of political correctness and loss of National Identity, come to haunt the frogs.
Great book, and now I can watch it on Euro TV!
Wouldn't that be adieu?
Let's see, CNN reported this so I'm guessing at least 5 paragraphs in before they say the word MUSLIM or ISLAM.
Darn, blew it again, it was 6 paragraphs. Oh well, wasnt that far off. Anyway, Viva France ... at least for one more night.
That novel teaches you that if you cannot identify yourselves in any direct sense your enemies will. Kind of like both liberal and conservative leaders labeling America "racist" and then marveling that we produce nutjobs like Farakan and Jackson and how we can bend over for their agendas.
Have they surrendered yet?
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| Published: 3 November 2005 PARIS: The French government was reeling yesterday after nearly a week of suburban rioting outside Paris spread to other areas around the capital, laying bare what observers said was the country's failure to address deep problems of poverty and immigration.Gangs of stone-throwing youths clashed with police and torched 180 cars overnight in several towns north and west of Paris in an escalation of dusk-to-dawn violence that has raged since last Thursday following the death of two teenagers in the northeast suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Thirty-four people were arrested in the rampages, which have so shaken authorities that President Jacques Chirac came forward to call for calm and vow to investigate the teens' deaths. "Tempers must calm down," a spokesman quoted him as telling his cabinet. Chirac warned that "an escalation of disrespectful behaviour would lead to a dangerous situation" and asserted that "there can be no area existing outside the law" in France. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin put off indefinitely a trip to Canada originally scheduled for yesterday to call an emergency meeting of ministers to discuss the problem and attend a parliamentary session in which he called the violence "extremely serious". He told ministers that "the government will ensure public order and will do so with the necessary firmness." He said he was counting on Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - who cancelled a trip next week to Pakistan and Afghanistan to deal with the situation - to "take the necessary measures." In all, more than 80 people have been arrested and two dozen police hurt since the start of the riots last week. They were triggered by the accidental electrocution of two youths, aged 15 and 17, who had scaled an electrical relay station's walls to escape a police identity check in the street. Since then, tensions - punctuated by the nighttime confrontations - have increased in the low-rent, high-immigrant suburbs that surround Paris. The firing of a police teargas grenade against a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois during clashes late Sunday also sparked rage in the suburb's large Muslim community. The grievances have been further fuelled by Sarkozy's hardline law-and-order policies. Observers saw the riots as a sign of the growing divisions in French society - Muslim immigration, poverty, declining education standards in downtrodden areas and joblessness. |
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CNN = JNN Jihadi News Network
police clashed with angry MUSLIM youths
advancing gangs of MUSLIM youths
MUSLIM Youths lobbed Molotov cocktails
I love CNN.... [/sarcasm off]
To the PC crowd, it will be described as anything but what it really is.
guess the country of disaster? iraq? palestine? france
Send Jesse Hijackson to determine the"demostrators'" grievances and demands.
I did, thirty years ago...still have the copy. I shuddered when I read it then and have grown more pale as the years go by as it appears to be more of a prophesy than I ever thought possible. Let the fun begin...I'm ready.
They'll have to get serious one of these days! Then again, it is France. The next response will probably be trying to pour wine in their eyes to make them sting.
Yes. Excellent book.
As long as the unrest does NOT get any where near the Eiffel Tower or The Palace, no problem....let the rubber bullets fly!!!
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