Chirac
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.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who cancelled a trip to Canada to tackle the crisis, said the violence was "unacceptable".
President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday called for calm, warning that an escalation would be "dangerous".
Typical French. Their capital is being burned to the ground and the strongest response that the govt. will muster is complaining and putting on a face of defiance. If the Islamics were to pull this kind of crap, it would be hunting season if the govt. response were this weak.
How long before the Dem talking points start blaming this on the President?...
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.
Typical media tripe. Being poor is not an excuse to trash your neighborhood and it sucks that the media tries to float this excuse, like they do with the Palestinians. Great message for the world: "Put them on welfare and up their benefits or they'll throw garbage and set things on fire."
This is just the first step.The kikkings and bombings are coming later. They are now letting the "amatuers" test the waters, so to speak and see what the response the French authorties give.Also it is o see what tone the media takes.
When the time is right,the "professionals" will be issued the arms currently stored in the mosques and go to work.
The Jews in France should be getting very nervious, or,if they are smart, getting out.
Appears to be that way, doesn't it?
WE all know, from listening to the alphetabet media organizations, that the followers of mohammad are peaceful.
See...it was the Jews all along.
8 posted on 11/04/2005 12:45:08 AM PST by ncountylee
And also it is President Bush's fault.
Will the Euro-Dhimmis finally open their eyes?
No.
Dickey never used the word Muslim in the report. He mentioned the word "mosque" once, in reference to some leaders from a local mosque (where they presumably practice Islam) who were trying to intercede with the rioters.
It's only a matter of time til a weapons-pipeline becomes operational.
What was that song from the disco era? "Burn Baby Burn"????
This is what the Left wants in the USA. For some insane reason, they want the Islamo-fascists to win, not caring that they would be first against the wall.
20 posted on 11/04/2005 1:10:55 AM PST by Sterm26 (Indict....no, HANG Joe Wilson!)
The reason they want this to happen , and will aid and abet it happening to the best of their ability is their rabid hatered for our way of life. And their rabid hatered of President Bush because to them he represents out way of life. They want total power over us, in other words, they will be our masters with life or death power over us and we will be their slaves.
As you said, they will be the first the followers of mohammad put against the wall should they succeed.
This is what blind, rabid hatered does to you. It destroys your ability to reason logically and rationally.
"Dickey never used the word Muslim in the report. He mentioned the word "mosque" once..."
KIlmeade needs to pick up the ball and start using the word, "insurgents". Now that has a familiar ring.
Right! They are at war now and all chirac can do is hope the media downplays it. Yikes.
The French will be surrendering to the muslims, as they've done historically in other wars. In a while there will be no France OR Europe as we knew it.
Reference your post # 31:
Correct in all aspects and the communist and socialists [Democrats] over here will learn that lesson the hard way.
Dickey said that it wasn't a language problem, that the rioters speak French. He suggested that the rioting was due to joblessness, but he didn't address why the jobless in the areas where rioting is taking place is between 20 to 30% Dickey didn't come right out and say it, but it seemed to me he was suggesting racial discrimination by the French, though Dickey also said that the folks in these burbs were all French citizens.
Land for peace!
Self-rule for Paristine!
Stop the massacre of Paristinian freedom fighters!
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