Posted on 11/05/2005 7:48:42 AM PST by Eurotwit
AUBERVILLIERS, France - Marauding youths torched nearly 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France, police said Saturday. Authorities arrested more than 250 people overnight — a sweep unprecedented since the unrest began.
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For the first time, authorities used a helicopter to chase down youths armed with gasoline bombs who raced from arson attack to arson attack, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.
The violence, which was concentrated in neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations but has since spread, has forced France to address the simmering anger of its suburbs, where immigrants and their French-born children live on the margins of society.
With 897 vehicles destroyed by daybreak Saturday, it was the worst one-day toll since unrest broke out after the Oct. 27 accidental electrocution of two teenagers who believed police were chasing them. Five hundred cars were burned a night earlier.
In a particularly malevolent turn, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project, pelting rescuers with rocks and torching the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.
A nursery school was badly burned in Acheres, west of Paris.
The town had previously escaped the violence, the worst rioting in at least a decade in France. Some residents demanded that the army be deployed, or that citizens band together to protect their neighborhoods. At the school gate, Mayor Alain Outreman tried to calm tempers.
"We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere."
Unrest, mainly arson, was reported in the northern city of Lille, in Toulouse in the southwest and in the Normandy city of Rouen. It was the second night that troubles spread beyond the difficult Paris suburbs.
In Suresnes, a normally calm town just west of the capital, 44 cars were burned in a lot.
On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people took part in a silent march in one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois. One banner read: "No to violence."
Police detained 258 people overnight, almost all in the Paris region, and dozens of them will be prosecuted, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said after a government crisis meeting.
"Violence penalizes those who live in the toughest conditions," he said. "Violence is not the solution."
Most attacks have been in towns with low-income housing projects, areas marked by high unemployment, crime and despair. But in a new development, gangs have left their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with fewer police, spreading the violence.
Police deployed overnight in smaller, more mobile teams to chase rioters getting around in cars and on motorcycles, said Hamon, the police spokesman.
There appeared to be no coordination among gangs in different areas, Hamon said. Within gangs, however, youths communicated by cell phone text messages or e-mails and warned each other about police, he said.
Anger against police was fanned days ago when a tear gas bomb exploded in a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris — the same surburb where the youths were electrocuted. Youths suspected a police operation, but Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met Saturday with the head of the Paris mosque and denied that police were to blame.
The persistence of the violence prompted the American and Russian governments to advise citizens visiting Paris to steer clear of the suburbs.
In Torcy, east of the capital, looters set fire to a youth center and a police station, which were gutted, city hall said. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue in Pierrefitte, northwest of Paris.
A police officer at the Interior Ministry operations center said bullets were fired into a vandalized bus in Sarcelles, north of Paris.
Firefighters battled a furious blaze at a carpet warehouse in Aubervilliers, on the northern edge of Paris.
A couple of months ago...
French high school students were having a protest in downtown Paris...
Maurading gangs of "angry youth" attacked them..
One quote was from the "angry youth" was something like this:
"These pathic small white people deserves a beating"
Yep! They did it in the Ivory Coast, why not at home?
How 'bout dat. Just like the hated Israeli occupiers of the beloved Pali's. I wonder how the sensitive French palate responds to a steaming plate of crow.
I am fine...
Got some time off from college at the moment...
How are you?
BTW: I ran into some poles last night.... They didn't speak much Norwegian or English...
But, when I said that I admired Sobiesky, they bought me a beer :-)
Have a good weekend.
Well heck...just give up, lay down...and die.
France is using helicopters to make sure that none of the thugs are rioting for more than 35 hours a week, which would be a violation of labor laws.
No $#!t Sherlock, that's what a militia is good for. It's lightly armed, not very mobile, but omnipresent.
During the Los Angeles riots, the ghetto low-lifes burned their own neighborhoods down, but in many places the citizens organized themselves into armed patrols and barricaded their streets. The rioters and looters would have been shot to rags if they tried any funny stuff. Remember the Korean shopkeepers?
-ccm
France will appeal to the United Nations for financial help to build nicer homes and to give more welfare dollars to these thugs to "appease them".
Remember, the United Nations dollars = America's dollars.
You really should watch the recent remake of Dawn of the Dead.
It is very scary in terms of what is going on today.
Awesome Qoute!I will memorize this for my Debates!
Helicopters...The Frenchies must be getting serious.
The New French Revolution, May 16, 2004
For almost half a century, Europe has depended on imported labor to do the kind of menial jobs its own people don't want to do -- so much so that, today, the population of France is almost 10 percent Muslim.
They are the descendants of Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian workers who came from France's ex-colonies.
Now, many of them live in neglected public housing projects, ruled by violent gangs and increasingly susceptible to Islamic fundamentalism.
Sisters In Hell, Dec 2, 2002
Sexual assault is rampant in France's crumbling housing projects. Now a gang-rape victim has broken the silence. Will society confront the crisis?
Racial Gang-Rape: The Sequel, July 23, 2002
In France, gangs of North African youths were gang-raping French girls.
France in shock over gang rape,July 26, 2001
Watching the film La Squale (which translates as "the squaw" or "the girl tearaway") was a test both for my nerves and my French. The 14, 15 and 16 year-old-teenagers watching it with me hardly bat an eyelid: they had seen and heard it all before.
The average (Not all!) white person, sadly, is an effeminate wimpy, physically weak, cowardly, person unable or unwilling to defend him or herself from these barbarian marauders.
I say this as a white person who sees what is around me. Sure its not PC to say, but the reality is what it is. White kids will get stomped if they try to stand up to these kids.
WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is Nazi Germany in 2005.
This is just the beginning.
The civilized world will undoubtedly have to treat the Islamic problem like the Nazi problem or the civilized world will lose.
9/11 marked the beginning of World War III and until all civilized countries unite to rid the earth of this scum, we will not prevail.
One Israeli Defense Forces veteran has said in my hearing that this is simply a rehearsal for what the Islamofascists are preparing for. He debunked the early news reports that these rioters are simply angry youths. He thinks these punks are well organized and are simply encouraging financing at this stage. He said if the French don't deal with this now, next spring will be much worse.
"For my money I'd want to pop off a few shots at the hostiles before they cut my head off."
Remember how the Koreans saved their businesses in Los
Angeles? They stood on top of their stores with shotguns.
In France, they'd have to stand on top of their stores with really angry thoughts and wishes they had a Second Amendment.
It may well call for the formation of militias, if the central government remains impotent. But what will the people use for arms? Have the French citizenry not been long since disarmed by their caretakers?
At this rate the government will need to admit sometime soon that they are in a state of insurrection, and call in the military.
Who? The French? Are you serious?
Germany has a huge population of Turkish origin....if France can't (or won't) get a handle on this expect same in Germany.....worse as the government is weak following the wrangling over power after recent split elections.
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