Paris-Area Riots Spread To 20 Towns(Update)

WRAL.com ^ | 11/03/2005 | AP

[oldleft]

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.

Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants.

Police deployed for a feared eighth night of clashes, after bands of youths lobbing stones and petrol bombs ignored President Jacques Chirac's appeal for calm a day earlier.

"I will not accept organized gangs making the law in some neighborhoods. I will not accept having crime networks and drug trafficking profiting from disorder," Villepin said at the Senate in between emergency meetings called over the riots.

The unrest cast a cloud over the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. In Clichy-sous-Bois _ heart of the rioting _ men filled the Bilal mosque for evening prayers, but streets were subdued with shops shutting early.

[LS]

This is sounding more and more like the "Great Fear" of 1789 that brought down Louis XVI! I like it!

[highlander_UW]

The unrest cast a cloud over the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.

This sentence was just tossed in there without explanation. How did the violence cast a cloud over Ramadan? It's a "holy" month during with one gains extra rewards if one dies for allah. Only could hanging in the air is over France...not Ramadan.

[pabianice]

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state. Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to hang TWO white flags from each police station in the effected area...

[xcamel]

Is Pfrance Phuqu*d?

[soccer_maniac]

Boycott FRANCE!!

[EagleUSA]

How did the violence cast a cloud over Ramadan? It's a "holy" month during with one gains extra rewards if one dies for allah.
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Wow, you have to hand it to these Islamics. I am impressed with their marketing campaign. Ramadan, virgins, more goodies from Alla...maybe someone should set up a used car dealership for Islamic radicals...hmmm.

[oldleft]

Much as I hate to say it, I'm praying for France. If these people are allowed to set up semi-autonomous enclaves in France they will export terror all over Europe. I hope the French come to their senses and take the fight to the Islamofacists in their country.

[cripplecreek]

I'm wondering if there's a point where it stops being rioting and becomes an insurgency.

[Jackson Brown]

There has been specific area "civil wars" -- called "no go" areas by the police, fire, and ambulance services in nearly every EU city.

I've been thinking there is a growing potential for a hot - wide -- civil war in Europe natives VS. muslim immigrants.

Maybe the time for Europe to pay the piper has come?

[Gator101]

The wages of appeasement.

[bonfire]

Freedom Fighers, doncha know.

[baystaterebel]

Q U A G M I R E !

[gotribe]

What do you like about it?

[cripplecreek]

"Much as I hate to say it, I'm praying for France."


I agree, we cannot allow france or europe to fall to islam. We can't afford it.

[Soul Seeker]

Hmm.

We're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are fighting Islamofascists in their own homeland.

Waiting for Chirac to again explain the wisdom in his choice.

[durasell]

We have better riots here in the U.S.

[taxesareforever]

France is now observing what happens when a country allows the influx of muslims. Look out U.S.

[junta]

Bosnia and Albania probably fit that bill.

[VOA]

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