What a shame...the newspapers won't be able to run.
I'm taking bets now. How many nights? My guess is 14.
Cowards
the slimes is the best.
argentinian riots page one, big picture.
ten days of french riots buried by the obituary column.
But I thought being nice to the terrorists would keep the French safe from them.
What an excellent idea!!!!! I'm sure all the "troubled youth" are just shamed by such a display....the guilt they must feel....surely it will make them stay home and watch 'Leave it to Beaver'.
What a bunch of pansies. Can anyone in their wildest dreams see something like this happening in Texas? Of course not! These "troubled youth" would have been dealt after the first hour.
France is such a socialist cesspool.
info.us@franceguide.com
"You're under arrest" might work better than the "We surrender" he's going to hear.
If the west keeps buying into this excrement issued from these vermin, the west will cease to exist.
"What I want from the authorities, from Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials are words of peace," he said.
Should be: After the meeting, Mr Sarkozy urged a change in tone from the Islamist thugs.
"What I want from the imams, from Mr Boubakeur, the sheiks, are words of peace," he said.
Fat chance.
After the meeting, Mr Boubakeur urged a change in tone from the government.
"What I want from the authorities, from Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials are words of peace," he said.
Mr de Villepin has been holding a series of meetings with public figures and ordinary people from the affected areas as he seeks an end to the crisis.
Mr Sarkozy's description of rioters last week as "scum" (racaille) is said by many to have aggravated the situation - which was further inflamed by reports that a police tear gas grenade had gone off near a mosque.
This tells you all you need to know about how the French are handling the situation. Sarkozy (the designated scapegoat) wants to deal with the problem. Villepin wants it to just go away in some sort of magical "Can't We All Just Get Along" Rodney King style. That didn't work with the Germans 65 years ago and it isn't going to work this time either. The French are unfortunately much better at taking bribes than they are dealing with violent scum like the Nazis and this current set of rampaging islamic hoods.
I'm sure they're shaking in their boots now. Sure you want to take such a radical step there, Nick?
Sunday November 6, 2005 12:01 AM
By JOHN LEICESTER
The Guardian (UK)
Associated Press Writer
ACHERES, France (AP) - Youths armed with gasoline bombs fanned out from Paris' poor, troubled suburbs to shatter the tranquility of resort cities on the Mediterranean, torching scores of vehicles, nursery schools and other targets during a 10th straight night of arson attacks.
Police deployed a helicopter and tactical teams to chase down youths speeding from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes. Some 2,300 police were brought into the Paris region to bolster security, France-Info said. More than 250 people were arrested.
The violence - originally concentrated in neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large immigrant populations - is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with unemployment, poor housing, racial discrimination, crime and a lack of opportunity.
The unrest, triggered by fury over the deaths of two teenagers, has taken on unprecedented scope and intensity. The violence reached far-flung corners of France on Saturday, from Rouen in Normandy to Bordeaux in the southwest to Strasbourg near the German border, but the Paris region has borne the brunt.
In quiet Acheres, on the edge of the St. Germain forest west of Paris, arsonists burned a nursery school, where part of the roof caved in, and about a dozen cars in four attacks that the mayor said seemed ``perfectly organized.''
Children's photos clung to the blackened walls, and melted plastic toys littered the floor. Residents gathered at the school gate demanded that the army be deployed or suggested that citizens band together to protect their neighborhoods. Mayor Alain Outreman tried to cool tempers.
``We are not going to start militias,'' he said. ``You would have to be everywhere.''
Arson attacks were reported in the Paris region and outlying cities, many known for their calm. Cars were torched in the cultural bastion of Avignon in southern France and the resort cities of Nice and Cannes, a police officer said.
Arson was reported in Nantes in the southwest, the Lille region in the north and Saint-Dizier in the Ardennes region east of Paris. In the eastern city of Strasbourg, 18 cars were set alight in full daylight, police said.
In one attack, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project. They pelted rescuers with rocks and then torched the waiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.
By daybreak Saturday, 897 vehicles were destroyed - a sharp rise from the 500 burned a night earlier, police said. It was the worst one-day toll since the unrest erupted Oct. 27 following the accidental electrocution of the two teenagers who hid in a power substation, apparently believing police were chasing them.
The anger spread to the Internet, with blogs mourning the youths.
Along with messages of condolence and appeals for calm were insults targeting police, threats of more violence and warnings that the unrest will feed support for France's anti-immigration extreme right.
``Civil war is declared. There will no doubt be deaths. Unfortunately, we have to prepare,'' said a posting signed ``Rania.''
``We are going to destroy everything. Rest in peace, guys,'' wrote ``Saint Denis.''
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. He warned of possibly heavy sentences for burning cars.
``Violence penalizes those who live in the toughest conditions,'' he said.
Most rioting has been in towns with low-income housing projects where unemployment and distrust of police run high. But in a new development, arsonists were moving beyond their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with less security, said a national police spokesman, Patrick Hamon.
``They are very mobile, in cars or scooters. ... It is quite hard to combat'' he said. ``Most are young, very young, we have even seen young minors.''
There appeared to be no coordination between separate groups in different areas, Hamon said. But within gangs, he added, youths are communicating by cell phones or e-mails. ``They organize themselves, arrange meetings, some prepare the Molotov cocktails.''
In Torcy, close to Disneyland Paris, a youth center and a police station were set ablaze. In Suresnes, on the Seine River west of the capital, 44 cars were burned in a parking lot.
``We thought Suresnes was calm,'' said Naima Mouis, a hospital employee whose car was torched into a twisted hulk of metal.
On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people took part in a silent march in one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois. Local officials wore sashes in the red-white-and-blue of the French flag as they filed past housing projects and the wrecks of burned cars. One white banner read ``No to violence.''
Anger was fanned days ago when a tear gas bomb exploded in a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris - the same suburb where the youths were electrocuted.
Sarkozy also has inflamed passions by referring to troublemakers as ``scum.''
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin denied that police were to blame. The director of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, who met Saturday with Villepin, urged the government to choose its words carefully and send a message of peace.
``In such difficult circumstances, every word counts,'' Boubakeur said.
From an online french dictionary:
1 racaille Noun, feminine (a) riffraff, rabble
1 écume Noun, feminine (a) foam, froth on sea, beer, lather from soap, scum from impurities, dross on metal; l'~ de la société the dregs of society
This isn't MSM spin is it? Naaah!
Rundown suburb of Paris? Hah? How can that be? I thought France was a socialist Utopia where there is no rich or poor.
If we can't even expect a paradise like France to remove the scourge of poverty from the face of earth....