Posted on 11/04/2005 5:09:48 AM PST by rface
In Aulnay-sous-Bois, north-east of Paris, a fire engine hurtles through the evening streets. After a tour around the long, high blocks of flats, the vehicle stops in front of a school building.
Flames are leaping from the window frames. The glass has been smashed in, says resident André Sirguey, angrily. Theyve set it on fire. Again!
It is nine oclock, and a new evening full of violence and arson has begun. Every evening since Thursday, 27 October, the suburbs of Paris have been struck by serious riots. Youths take to the streets, light fires and engage in battles with the police.
Raising hell Mr Sirgueys neighbour comes to watch what is going on this evening. The school? he yells, while clouds of black smoke hang around the apartment complexes. Have those jerks really set it on fire? My daughter goes there! He begins to gesticulate wildly. If you really think its necessary to raise hell, then set fire to the town hall, or a government building, but not a school!
Suddenly, theres the sound of shouting from the end of the street. André Sirguey and his neighbour walk over, and see a line of about 30 police officers, helmets on, shields in hand. Theyve sealed off the street. Opposite them: the banlieu youths; immigrant boys with their hoods pulled over their heads, who stand defiantly in the middle of the street, yelling come on then! Come on if you dare! at the riot squad facing them.
Battlefield Scarcely two minutes later, and the street has been transformed into a battlefield. The youths hurl petrol-bombs, bottles and rubbish at the police. A shrubbery is set on fire and a skip is pushed into the middle of the street. It is also set alight.
Paris riots The officers stay in their places, deflecting bottles with their shields. When the young men come too close with their petrol bombs, rubber bullets are fired. Tear gas is kept near to hand, but it isnt used. Again, this evening, Aulnay-sous-Bois is the stage for what some people say is urban guerilla warfare and what the extreme right calls ethnic civil war.
The riots began in the north-east of Paris, but, in a couple of days spread to suburbs around the whole of the French capital. Within a week, more than 140 rioters had been arrested.
People getting angry In the mosque at Clichy-sous-Bois, a couple of kilometers south of Aulnay, its chairman Abderrahmane Bouhout wants to give his analysis of the situation. The visitors to the mosque, however, are getting angry. Why talk to the press? They only paint a negative picture of Muslims here, they snarl at him.
Later on, outside the mosque, Mr Bouhout tells his side of the story. People in this area dont have any work, the young people dont have anything to do, he says, as the mosque fills up with men for evening prayer. It only needed something to spark it off. A youth-worker, who has also come to pray, adds his opinion. Its a timebomb here! Theyve created ghettos, shoving all the immigrants together and then just letting things run their course over the years. Now the bomb has exploded.
In Aulnay-sous-Bois, the police and fire services withdraw at around 11 oclock at night: theyre needed elsewhere. On the other side of the city, a police station and a garage have been set on fire. The burning skip stays on the street.
"I wonder how Johnny Depp's doing over there?"
LOL! No better place in the world for him to live, wish all stupid liberals could afford to do this.
Why don't these rabble and scum go back where they came from. Instead of praying so damn much, why don't they try to acquire a skill and get their lazy butts to work?
Pull out now!!!
NO BLOOD FOR QUICHE!!!!
What goes around, comes around!
"Why talk to the press? They only paint a negative picture of Muslims here, they snarl at him."
Its been Muslims doing all the painting...
Too bad so many refuse to see the picture...
We shouldn't let him back in.
Damn, so THAT's how multiculturalism is supposed to work! It's not about affirmative action and integration and special government grants to the lumpenproletariat, it's about keeping them "separate, unequal, and essentially out of sight".
Well, I'll watch this with great interest, but the time when Americans used to care about foreigners invading France is just so... so... so last millenium, you know what I mean?
The press paints a negative picture of the Religion o' Peace? You learn something new every day.
Sure hope Bolton gets to toy with a few UN Security Council resolutions about this!
"Well Villepuke, I think we should send in UN inspectors and give them 13 years to establish that there's any rioting going on, we'd like to opportunity to sell them some weapons, also there's the whole Korans-for-Food program to consider."
The boys try to kill the officers, and the officers respond with fake bullets? What a messed up response.
...He begins to gesticulate wildly...
Sadly, that's all that the French have left.
Waving and shrieking will not stop the ravaging hordes.
Most of these rabble and scum came from there. But the rest of your comments are spot-on.
Hehehe... ABC identified them as Muslims last night. I guess it takes a long time for word from Europe to travel to their US studios.
Ah...Islam....the "religion of peace".
MUST be another reason for these riots!
It's time we stopped letting the MSM sanitize this by ignoring it or minimizing it, by calling it "protests" by "French youth" and start referring to it as what it is, the French Intifada.
Well we're talking about France's legal immigration policies here, but I do get your point! :>D
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of islam.
Those days of riots, and jihad, and fear.
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