Posted on 11/04/2005 12:32:54 AM PST by Southack
PARIS RIOTS SPREADING 4.11.2005. 18:34:50
Rioting around Paris has worsened with gangs attacking police and firefighters in defiance of a government vow to crackdown on the violence, which has plagued the capital for over a week.
Fresh rioting broke out on the outskirts of Paris — in the city's poorest and mainly immigrant suburbs — for the eighth straight night on Thursday.
Around 1,300 police officers were mobilised in the north-eastern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, while more than 30 people were arrested in the area.
Buses, fire engines and police were stoned and five policemen were reported injured.
Police said more than 160 cars were torched overnight in the Paris region and 33 in the provinces, a day after around 315 vehicles were burnt in the city’s Ile-de-France region.
One of the worst incidents took place at Neuilly-sur-Marne where police vans came under fire from pellet pistols, but nobody was reported hurt.
A fire was started in a primary school in Stains, as police were targeted by a group of 30 to 40 people near a synagogue.
Paris firemen were called to fight a blaze at a carpet warehouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Traffic was halted on a suburban commuter line which links Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport after stone-throwing rioters attacked two trains.
The clashes have gained territory every night since they began last Thursday, exposing what critics say is a failure of the government to address the problems of low-income, high-immigration suburbs where crime and gangs run rampant.
In a worrying sign similar rampages broke out elsewhere in France.
Police said several cars in the eastern city of Dijon were set alight, while similar attacks took place in the western Seine-Maritime region and the Bouches-du-Rhone in the south of the country.
Government defiant
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who cancelled a trip to Canada to tackle the crisis, said the violence was "unacceptable".
He vowed that authorities would not give in to the violence and would make restoring order their "absolute top priority".
"I will not allow organised gangs to make the law in the suburbs," he said.
President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday called for calm, warning that an escalation would be "dangerous".
The riots were sparked last week by the accidental electrocution of two teenagers who had hidden in an electrical sub-station to escape a police identity check in Clichy-sous-Bois.
A preliminary report released by the interior ministry on Thursday appeared to exonerate police of any direct role in the teenagers' deaths.
But as the unrest continued the opposition Socialist Party and many in the suburbs themselves blamed the hardline policies of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for fanning the violence.
Mr Sarkozy, who on Thursday said the total number of people arrested was over 140, vowed a "war without mercy" on crime and rebellious youths in the suburbs just before the rampages erupted.
The conservative minister, who has ambitions of running for president in two years, has drawn criticism for his tough rhetoric, especially for referring to delinquents as "rabble".
On Thursday, he claimed that recent rioting "was not spontaneous, it was perfectly organised — we are looking into by whom and how."
Low income suburbs
France has 751 neighbourhoods officially classed as severely disadvantaged, housing a total of five million people, around eight percent of the population.
The recent violence has exposed simmering discontent in those suburbs where African and Muslim immigrants and their French-born children are trapped by poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, crime and poor education and housing.
Unemployment is these areas is often twice the national rate of 10 percent, and per capita incomes 40 percent below the national average.
Thursday night was the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a night traditionally marked by feasts and family get-togethers.
Just like we got attacked after siding with the Islamics against the Christians...nothing changes and no one in the West learns anything.
"Remember there are plenty of us Europeans who have our eyes open!...Prayers for the innocent and the police who have to deal with this."
Indeed! You have my prayers for all the innocents and what they may face tonight and in the coming days. I also pray that the socialists will have their eyes opened to the failure of their multi-cultural ideology. Without this, the stage will be set for worse in the future no matter how this current unrest is settled.
bttt
They have "trapped" themselves, with poor decisions about how to live their lives. I have no sympathy for them--their refusal to assimilate, and their openly stated intention of turning France into an Islamic state, clearly identify them as enemies of freedom and democracy.
I hope the French are finally awakening to the threat they've created in their own country.
I agree the French must assimilate. (Joke)
BTTT
"Well put, I've been saying that the real threat to America is the American left. The muzzies cannot take us out, but the left can destroy our society and defenses from within. Just watch Western Europe crumble one country at a time. This time around, beyond securing nukes, we need to let them fall and rot."
I disagree on this count. If freedom is worth securing in Iraq, it's worth preserving in Europe, even France.
Of course I don't think an infusion of American blood is desirable or necessary here. We ought to help assure the Euros that if they elect to stand firm they won't lose face for 'cowboyism' or whatever social fear they have :)
I bet the fall rates in France are pretty good now on accomodations.
You scamp!
They can more then do it themselves, they just need to have the will power to do it.
"What is best in lfe?" To crush the jihadists, to drive their minions before you, and to hear the ululations of their girlie-men mullahs! Allahu fubar!
That looks better
The frogs should take a lesson from one of their own, Old Nappy, 19 Brumaire, a Whiff of the Grape.
I agree. Here are the conditions on which I'd reconsider the issue:
1. The French citizenry takes to the streets in massive demonstrations calling for the expulsion of all Islamofascists.
2. The French government apologizes wholeheartedly to the US for its anti-American philosophy and actions during the last 50 years, and offers to pay, in advance, the entire cost of any US military aid provided to assist the remaining French forces.
3. The French armed forces engage the Islamofascist forces in their country in open warfare and lose more than half of their soldiers.
Call me when this happens.
You and your country have my prayers!
There won't be any Sgt. York to save France this time.
France should get the hell out of Iraq! oh...
Cote D'Ivoire?
"I bet the fall rates in France are pretty good now on accomodations."
Yep, it's a fire sale. :p
That's presuming anyone wants to go there.
From blog: http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
That's called sending Vilepine a message
posted by U*2 @ 3:49 PM
At the same moment that Prime Minister Vilepine was meeting with French youth this afternoon to discuss their grievances, cars were burned - for the first time in broad daylight - directly in front of the Seine Saint Denis police station.
More insight from another blog: http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=3574
MSM blackout on the intifada in Denmark
It’s not just Paris. Successive nights of riots have rocked parts of Århus, the second largest city in Denmark. Little to nothing has appeared in the English language press about the second front in the Eurabian intifada. Århus is home to an excellent Danish university, and is a place where I have spent some time. It is usually spelled “Aarhus” in English.
Fortunately, Hendrik, The Viking Observer, has translated in his blog a press account from Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper which has been the target of Muslim protests for publishing drawings of the prophet Muhammad.. A few excerpts:
Rosenhøj Mall has several nights in a row been the scene of the worst riots in Århus for years. “This area belongs to us”, the youths proclaim. Sunday evening saw a new arson attack. Their words sound like a clear declaration of war on the Danish society. Police must stay out. The area belongs to immigrants....
Four hours after the short meeting, Falck (Danish privat emergency service – Henrik) sent a group of fire engines under police escort to the nursery Kjærslund on Søndervangs Allé, right across the street from Rosenhøj Mall. Gasoline through the windowA window had been shattered at the back of the house, and the fire had been blazing, apparently because of gasoline poured onto the floor, then lit. Falck stopped on Viby Square, a couple kilometers from the site of the arson attack, waiting for the police to turn up so they could be escorted to the nursery. Two nights earlier, other Falck-employees were threatened, when they were covering up broken shop-windows. Cobblestones had smashed the shop-windows from one end of the mall to the other. The police wrote in their report saturday night, that the youths had their stones with them in bags, when they came to Rosenhøj....
He calls himself 100 percent Palestinian, born in a refugee camp in Lebanon 19 years ago, and now out of work in Denmark.“The police has to stay away. This is our area. We decide what goes down here”.
The MSM has done everything possible to minimize the Islamicist nature of the violence in Europe, and has blacked-out coverage of the Danish front. Here is another example of how the blogosphere has become essential to an understanding of the realities of the world.
Hat tip: Ed Lasky
Thomas Lifson 11 04 05
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