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!"
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.
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.
What kind of "youth's"
Where are they immigrants from?
C'mon MSM, tell the truth.
Good post. I like the comparison to the Rodney King riots. I hate it, but it is a great way for the MSM to spin this. So good that it could work.
I must confess to being guilty of schadenfraude over this.
Fox has covered it and so has the BBC. The BBC has graphic tape and Fox says that it is Muslims rioting.
French gov't powerless as worsening riots spread from Paris
04/11/2005 14h37PARIS (AFP) - Gangs of youths again stoned police and set cars ablaze as France's worst rioting in more than a decade raged for its eighth straight night, sparking fears that racial and social divisions were fuelling growing violence.
In a worrying sign, the rampages that have gripped the poorer immigrant-populated outskirts of Paris since October 27 spread, for the first time, to other parts of the country, to Dijon, Marseille and Normandy, and inside the capital itself.
They have also taken on an increasingly dangerous tone, with buckshot fired at riot squad vans -- and prosecutors revealing that a handicapped woman was deliberately set on fire the night before.
According to prosecutors Friday, the 56-year-old woman was unable to get off a bus targeted by a Molotov cocktail late Wednesday in the northern Paris suburb of Sevran. She was allegedly doused with petrol by one youth, then others threw a flaming rag on her. Rescued by the driver, she was taken to hospital with severe burns to 20 percent of her body.
A fireman was also being treated for burns to his face received from a Molotov cocktail thrown earlier in the week.
Overnight Thursday, more than 500 vehicles and several businesses were set on fire, and 78 people arrested in the Paris area, according to police.
Most of the arson happened in the low-income neighbourhoods that lie well outside the city, far from its famous monuments and tourist sights, although seven cars were also burnt in poorer northern and eastern districts in central Paris.
The violence has badly rattled the government of President Jacques Chirac, which is wavering between the "zero tolerance" policies of the hardline Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and calls for a more conciliatory approach to take account of the rioters' grievances.
More than 1,300 police were deployed in a vain attempt to restore order around the city, following a vow from Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin that "I will not allow organised gangs to make the law in the suburbs."
Marine Le Pen, daughter of extreme-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen and deputy leader of his National Front party, called for a state of emergency to be declared in the worst-hit areas.
The rioting -- sparked last week by the accidental deaths by electrocution of two youths who hid in an electrical sub-station in the northeast neighbourhood of Clichy-sous-Bois to escape a police identity check -- is the worst France has seen since the first troubles broke out in deprived high-immigration neighbourhoods in the late 1980s.
Those responsible are groups of young Muslim men, the sons of families from France's former Arab and African colonial territories, who have said in interviews that they are protesting economic misery, racial discrimination and provocative policing.
Arsonists set fire to five businesses in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north and east of Paris city centre, completely destroying a large warehouse containing carpets and flooring material at the Garonord industrial zone near Charles de Gaulle airport.
At Trappes to the southwest of Paris a spectacular fire gutted a bus depot, with 27 vehicles inside destroyed. Witnesses told Europe 1 radio that flames shot 50 meters (150 feet) into the air with repeated explosions.
Five officers were lightly hurt by flying objects as rioters once again stoned police and fire services in several neighbourhoods, and at Neuilly-sur-Marne to the east of Paris buckshot was fired at vans belonging to the CRS riot squad.
Police said that though the number of car-burnings was higher than the previous night, clashes with rioters were fewer.
Speaking on French television late Thursday, Sarkozy said the violence was being orchestrated by unknown organisers. "What we have been witnessing ... has nothing spontaneous about it. It was perfectly organised. We are trying to find out by who and how," he said.
The minister -- who has ambitions to become president after elections in 2007 -- also rejected accusations that his tough rhetoric had fuelled the rioters' anger. He has described delinquent suburban youth as "racaille" or rabble, and said crime-ridden areas need to be "cleaned with a power-hose."
Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe of the opposition Socialist Party warned on Europe 1 against hasty conclusions being made "between one religion, Islam, and a few extremists" and the range of criminal networks in the down-trodden suburbs.
Small-scale suburban violence is a regular but unreported fact of life in many poor areas on the outskirts of major French cities. According to the police intelligence service, a total of 28,000 cars were burned across the country this year -- even before the latest outbreak.
They have also taken on an increasingly dangerous tone, with buckshot fired at riot squad vans -- and prosecutors revealing that a handicapped woman was deliberately set on fire the night before.
According to prosecutors Friday, the 56-year-old woman was unable to get off a bus targeted by a Molotov cocktail late Wednesday in the northern Paris suburb of Sevran. She was allegedly doused with petrol by one youth, then others threw a flaming rag on her. Rescued by the driver, she was taken to hospital with severe burns to 20 percent of her body.
Ugly hardly describes that event.
"Car torchings........with thousands burned EACH month, police say."
This is unbelievable. Don't believe these people have too little, but too much....just like Iraq has enough cars to blow up. I'd say ban all cars. Maybe when they get tired of walking, they might appreciate cars....or at least get bright enough to set up a few chop shops. These are nihilists, plain and simple.
The article makes it sound like it's drug dealers doing the rioting. I thought it was muslims?
Elsewhere on FR it was posted that the French media will be cutting back reporting so they don't "inflame" the situation (that's what they said).
Looks like it will keep spreading to other towns until the authorities actually do something and get tough but maybe de Villepin is too busy writing a poem about it.