Posted on 11/04/2005 7:32:13 AM PST by Syco
Groups of youths hit Paris' riot-shaken suburbs with waves of arson attacks, torching hundreds of cars, as unrest entered its second week Friday and spread to other towns in France.
In the eastern city of Dijon, teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood set fire to five cars, said Paul Ronciere, the region's top government official.
Overnight in the Paris region, 420 cars were set ablaze, up from previous nights, the Interior Ministry said... The unrest was led by "very numerous small and highly mobile groups," with arson attacks that destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings, including three sprawling warehouses.
Car torchings are a daily fact of life in France's tough suburbs, with thousands burned each month, police say. Police intelligence has recorded nearly 70,000 incidents of urban violence this year, including attacks on police and rescue services, arson, throwing projectiles, clashes between gangs, joy-riding and property destruction, Le Monde reported.
Many of the riotous youths are the French-born children of immigrant parents. The unrest has laid bare discontent simmering in suburbs and among immigrant families who feel trapped by poverty, unemployment, and poor education.
Youths fired buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, east of Paris, and a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue in Stains to the north where a city bus was torched and a school classroom partially burned, Cordet said.
In Trappes, to the west, 27 buses were incinerated. But the unrest was scaled back from the sometimes-ferocious rioting of previous nights, when bullets were fired at police and firefighters without causing injuries.
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Sorry. I MEANT to say that the MSM probably isn't focusing on the WORST of the news! They never give us ALL the news.
Do you really think this "new population" really wants to "assimilate"?
Within a generation? Wake up, this is NOW.
time for the Parisians to "take out the trash!"
Okay, okay! I agree. I made the "within a generation" crack because I thought it would be over-reacting to say "all of Europe" would go up in flames NOW. Still, your point is well taken. It could happen much sooner. I don't think that this is a continent-wide civil war (yet), but it may be the opening shot.
I just love (sarc) when the media offers excuses for criminal behavior! Of course, it's always the same, always,,poor, disenfranchised, alienated,,blah blah blah blah!
Their misery is factual but rioting doesn't make it any better. Are there any brain cells left in France at all?
I hate to gloat, but... no, wait, I love to gloat: This couldn't be happening to a more deserving country.
I'm sorry, but... no, wait, I'm not sorry: In this case, bad news is good news.
With them burning all those cars, it should cut down on there traffic problem. Good things come out of bad.
Are there any brain cells left in France at all?This is your brain: [photo of unbroken egg]
This is your brain on socialism: [photo of egg frying in pan]
So, what would be your (final) solution to this problem?
I don't know what France is to do. They have really painted themselves into a corner here.
Jamey Keaten uses all the pathetic AP tricks to avoid saying what is at the root of the problem.
"Groups of youths"
"teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood"
"very numerous small and highly mobile groups,"
"Many of the riotous youths are the French-born children of immigrant parents. The unrest has laid bare discontent simmering in suburbs and among immigrant families who feel trapped by poverty, unemployment, and poor education."
So, it's just a bunch of mistreated teens who are responsible for the riots. The word "immigrant" is used twice, buried in the middle of the story. The words "Arab," "African," and "Muslim" never appear.
All the news, all the time, that's AP.
Criminals, angered by a police crackdown on crime, committed even worse crimes.
It's time to trade in the rubber bullets and pepper spray for lead bullets and Willie Pete.
There are three theoretical possibilities:
1) Some amicable solution that ends the violence and allows life to continue as before. Probability: negligible.
2) France responds with enough force to end this riot and to deter future ones. Probability: Very unlikely.
3) France "pulls out" of the Islamic neighborhoods, creating their own little Gaza strip surrounding their capital. Life continues as France-under-siege. Probability: Almost certain.
What kind of "youth's"
Where are they immigrants from?
C'mon MSM, tell the truth.
Yes, but all that smoke! Has anybody stopped to consider what this will do to Global Warming?!?
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