Posted on 11/05/2005 4:47:47 PM PST by DogBarkTree
Paris - \'We burned 15 cars. How many do you have?\' A grim contest is under way in France as kids from disadvantaged suburbs vie with each other to see who can riot the hardest.
On Internet websites, young arsonists brag about their successes. Rioting, it seems, has become a trend sport, as youths in immigrant areas of provincial cities begin to rally to the call from Paris.
While political slogans hold no sway among these youngsters, hatred for Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is palpable. \'Now we\'re the ones chasing you with the Karcher (high-pressure hoses),\' they say, referring to Sarkozy\'s pledge to clean the suburbs of \'scum\'.
What began as pitched battles has transformed into a nightly game of cat-and-mouse with the police.
Two or three people set out armed with mobile phones, crowbars and incendiary material. A quick hit with the crowbar on the windscreen of a police van, a Molotov cocktail inside - and they\'re off back into the sprawling housing estates.
The rioters have also started using motorbikes and mobile phones to trace the movements of police riot squads, in tactics reminiscent of urban guerrilla movements.
\'Each night we turn this place into Baghdad\', says one masked youth in Sevran near Paris. As a political statement, there have been better - but these riots seem to be more aimed at the television cameras than the National Assembly.
\'It would be better to go into Paris than break up everything here,\' his friend says, appearing to consider that the victims of the rioting are predominantly their own neighbours and friends.
\'Why did they set my car on fire, why mine?\' asks one young man as he watches it go up in flames. He knows the perpetrators, he says. They\'re neighbours of his, but he refuses to name them.
\'These are our kids,\' says Mohammed Rezzoug, vice president of Blanc-Mesnil football club.
Every night, Rezzoug is out on the streets talking to local youths in a bid to prevent his own sports hall going up in smoke. \'They answer me: \'Momo, we\'ll fuck them all\',\' he says.
Lurking behind the lines of burning cars is the knowledge that these riots could soon become a matter of life and death.
On Wednesday night, a disabled woman in Sevran barely escaped death in a burning bus.
Youths barricaded the road with burning tyres and threw fuel into the bus. All the other passengers fled, but the 56-year-old, unable to move, was sprayed with petrol and then a burning rag was thrown inside.
The woman survived the attack with second and third-degree burns on one-fifth of her body, after the bus driver managed to pull her to safety.
WHY is the news of the wspreading of islamic terrorist uprisings NOT being reported??
Islamic War in Denmark
Place de la Republique? Where did you hear that? Are the Pres et al still TALKING???? Lot of good it's doing.
This will put a real crimp in French tourism.
"It is spreading as I write.
they are in Place de la Republique in the centre of Paris... 11 cars burning for now."
May God help you, sir.
In the end all Muslims are the enemy.
Oh my.
Shantytown is the surest sign. I can't believe that France has allowed this, and it may be too late now to make it right. They need another De Gaulle, right now. Whether you liked him or not, he was formidable.
Read Infiltration, by Sperry.
http://www.sperryfiles.com
It's not just France.
Is there rioting in Marseille? I have friends there. Also what about near the Champs Elysee? Sounds like the French need to give the police real ammo and study up on the Nazis clearing the Warsaw ghetto.
So they hate sarkozy. Why? He's the only Frenchman that apparently wants to fight them. Chirac is probably scheduling a visit to England to have some of the cuisine he dislikes so much, to avoid this "unpleasantness".
"they are in Place de la Republique in the centre of Paris... 11 cars burning for now."&
Source?
well, here is the "11 cars inside Paris" story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516513/posts
but I do not know what "center of Paris" refers to.
Fox news has mentioned it. I am living in Sweden, trying to get news from European news but they are shy about giving the news.
I have to rely on Americans to know those things.lol.
The riots are spreading out from the Slums to the center and to the leafy suburbs as I write.
Who cares (besides the Germans) if france just disappears?
The French are reluctant to solve this problem too quickly. It's been reported that there have already been over 1,000 autos destroyed. Replacing these autos is expected to be a real shot in the arm for the struggling French auto industry.
Please insert peace loving muslim reference....Gil Scott Heron:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
Thanks.
Breaking news on FOX....yes Ihave to watch American TV for live news.....European journalistsare too ashamed to report the riots their friendly muslims have started.
Bastards. Let them eat France. Oh yeah...Democrats will loose their @$$ if they continue to push against fighting the towel heads "over there".
Idiots believe, as the French, that our fine troops should come home and fight here. @holes. Pubes should use this fine riot footage to prove their point.
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