[ECM]

This is a stupid question, but does anyone know if, overall, this is as bad as it sounds? Is this the sort of thing the police over there are capable of putting down w/ anything short of extreme force?

[Americanwolf]

7 night of rioting in nine cities in France... rioting for 4 days in Denmark is pretty bad... the police are not reacting with overt force in hopes of not creating a massive conflict... the police chief in Paris stated the tension is bordering on civil war.. that was stated a couple of posts back in this thread... it is pretty bad.

[Cincinna]

"Is this the sort of thing the police over there are capable of putting down w/ anything short of extreme force?"

The French special police , the CRS. are totally capable of handling these riots. They are equipped with full riot gear, body armor and machine guns.

The government is afraid of these Islamists. Afraid they will attack,commit terror, etc. They are afraid to punish lawlessness for fear there will be retaliation. There are debates on in France now with the Left condemning the government for calling the rioter sand looters "criminals" and "delinquints".

Maybe they should all sit down for tea and talk it through Shame on them.

They have never learned that appeasement never works.

[EBH]

This is a stupid question, but does anyone know if, overall, this is as bad as it sounds?

"No matter what the politicians say, some neighborhoods are all but lost," said Patrice Ribeiro national secretary of the Synergie police officers' union.