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Unrest spreads across France.
AP ^ | 11/05/05 | AP

Posted on 11/05/2005 10:16:47 AM PST by Pikamax

Aubervilliers, France — Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, with youths torching an ambulance and stoning medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person. Authorities arrested more than 250 people, an unprecedented sweep since the beginning of the unrest.

Bands of youths also burned a nursery school, warehouses and nearly 900 cars overnight as the violence spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France. The U.S. warned Americans against taking trains to the airport through the affected areas.

At the nursery school in Acheres, west of Paris, part of the roof was caved in, childrens' photos stuck to blackened walls, and melted plastic toys littered the floor.

The town had been previously untouched by the violence. Some residents demanded that the army be deployed, or that citizens rise up and form militias. At the school gate, the mayor tried to calm tempers.

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"We are not going to start militias," Mayor Alain Outreman said. "You would have to be everywhere."

Fires and other incidents were reported in Lille, Toulouse, Rouen and elsewhere on the second night of unrest in areas beyond metropolitan Paris. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue in Pierrefitte, northwest of Paris, where electricity went out after a burning car damaged an electrical pole.

"This is dreadful, unfortunate. Who did this? Against whom?" Naima Mouis, a hospital worker in Suresnes, asked while looking at the hulk of her burned-out car.

On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people took part in a silent march in one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois, filing past burned-out cars to demand calm. One banner read: "No to violence." Car torchings have become a daily fact in France's tough suburbs, with about 100 each night.

The Interior Ministry said nearly 900 vehicles were burned throughout France from Friday night to Saturday morning, most in the Paris area.

Arrests were also up sharply, with more than 250 people detained overnight, nearly all in the Paris area, said national police spokesman Patrick Hamon. Police deployed in smaller teams and used a helicopter to track bands of youths going from attack to attack, he said.

Police had made just 78 arrests in the Paris region the previous night.

The violence — sparked after the Oct. 27 accidental electrocution of two teenagers who believed police were chasing them in Seine-Saint-Denis — has laid bare discontent simmering in France's poor suburbs ringing big cities. Those areas are home to large populations of African Muslim immigrants and their children living in low-income housing projects marked by high unemployment, crime and despair.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin oversaw a Cabinet meeting Saturday to evaluate the situation.

The persistence of the violence prompted the American and Russian governments to advise citizens visiting Paris to avoid the suburbs, where authorities were struggling to gain control of the worst rioting in at least a decade.

An attack this week on a female bus passenger highlighted the savage nature of some of the violence. The woman, in her 50s and on crutches, was doused with an inflammable liquid and set afire after passengers were forced to leave the bus, blocked by burning objects on the road, judicial officials said.

Late Friday in Meaux, east of Paris, youths prevented firefighters from evacuating a sick person from an apartment in a housing project, pelting them with stones and torching the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry officer said. The officer, not authorized to speak publicly, asked not to be named.

"I'm not able to sleep at night because you never know when a fire might break out," said Mammed Chukri, 36, a Kurdish immigrant from northern Iraq living near a burned carpet warehouse. "I have three children and I live in a five-story building. If a fire hit, what would I do?"

A national police spokesman, Patrick Hamon, said there appeared to be no co-ordination between gangs in the various riot-hit suburbs. He said, however, that neighbourhood youths were communicating between themselves using cell phone text messaging or e-mails to arrange meeting points and alert each other to police.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cheeseeating; france; frenchmuslims; ouijad; parisriots; surrendermonkeys
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To: Pikamax
Jihad!




21 posted on 11/05/2005 10:34:31 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: FarmerW

who would enforce the curfew?


22 posted on 11/05/2005 10:34:40 AM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker!)
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To: Pikamax
... that citizens rise up and form militias

Too bad. France doesn't have a Second Amendment.
23 posted on 11/05/2005 10:35:21 AM PST by Beckwith (The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
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To: Pikamax

If they are waiting for this to just peter out, that is a big mistake. In the time it took for this to get started, I will bet that the jihadists have now taken up position with real weapons and not just handguns.

The diversion is just enough to allow them to funnel in with something more than petrol bombs..

I can't believe France is just stupid.

Any bets on aircraft nailed by missles next week?


24 posted on 11/05/2005 10:36:10 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Pikamax
I wonder if the Frenchies realize that its going to be hard to use their usual appeasement/surrender tactics to pull their chestnuts out of the fire this time.

Its an object lesson to us.

25 posted on 11/05/2005 10:36:57 AM PST by An Old Marine (Freedom isn't Free)
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To: Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)

LOL! The best tagline in recent memory.

26 posted on 11/05/2005 10:37:06 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Pikamax
I sure hope none of these member of TROP work in the Toulouse Airbus plant. Of course, how can you separate sabotage from their typical shoddy work?
27 posted on 11/05/2005 10:37:25 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Pikamax
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin oversaw a Cabinet meeting Saturday to evaluate the situation.

Probably discussing what kind of wine to serve at the next State Dinner.

28 posted on 11/05/2005 10:37:46 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
No it is not far fetched. Remember Churchill saw WWII comming in 1931 and was a laughing stock because he could see inexorable path of appeasement. If you don't recognize the seriousness of the problem you will not provide an effective remedy. that is the problem now. Europe is in denial about this. Wake up!
29 posted on 11/05/2005 10:37:49 AM PST by vimto (Life isn't a dry run)
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To: Pikamax
Why is it that you have to read down to the 11teenth paragraph before you find out it is MUSLIM VIOLENCE?
30 posted on 11/05/2005 10:38:10 AM PST by p23185 (Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin considered Sedition?)
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To: Bon mots

Map of Europe - very good and we deserve it!


31 posted on 11/05/2005 10:40:19 AM PST by vimto (Life isn't a dry run)
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To: TheBattman

Even the most liberal of Germans are telling me "this would be allowed for all of ten minutes here". Note that the Germans aren't even hearing that the rioters are Muslims. But rioters in general would not be allowed in Germany.

What the Germans are hearing on CNN and Spiegel TV is that angry young youths are protesting racism and ghettoization. CNN stresses that these young men are "French citizens" because their parents were the ones who moved here.

CNN is basically saying that these young men have a right to riot...that France OWES THEM because they were born here.


32 posted on 11/05/2005 10:40:50 AM PST by GermanBusiness
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To: Pikamax
France = General Cowardice in a "people" is a hard taskmaster..

{snip}

Republicans doing virtually nothing about massive rampant voter fraud..

33 posted on 11/05/2005 10:41:58 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: Pikamax

34 posted on 11/05/2005 10:42:18 AM PST by manapua
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To: GermanBusiness
"conductors walked off their jobs to protest attacks on their trains and passengers."

And the government keeps talking. Great solution France.

35 posted on 11/05/2005 10:51:08 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: GermanBusiness
Some of the MSM in Germany (Die Welt) are talking about youths from mostly Muslim origin. Off course they trot out all the trash about dialogue and overcoming racist attitudes etc.

I think I need to become an illegal alien. I'll go settle in Switzerland and demand they hand over the cash of UBS.
36 posted on 11/05/2005 10:54:26 AM PST by seppel
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To: Pikamax
"We are not going to start militias," Mayor Alain Outreman said. "You would have to be everywhere."

Coward

38 posted on 11/05/2005 11:03:26 AM PST by Taggart_D
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To: Pikamax
"Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence"

Now that is a funny statement. At what point are "widespread riots" not "malevolent"?

39 posted on 11/05/2005 11:15:08 AM PST by Rokke
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To: Pikamax

"with youths torching an ambulance and stoning medical workers"

Where there's stoning, there's muslims.


40 posted on 11/05/2005 11:15:36 AM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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