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France rioters: \'Each night we make this place Baghdad\'
Monsters and Critics.com ^ | Nov 5, 2005, 19:00 GMT | Hans-Hermann Nikolei

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; frenchmuslims; mooligans; parisriots; sarkozy; sevran
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Throw some Aussies in and you'd have a real party.


81 posted on 11/05/2005 5:48:41 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: ml/nj
"Ever hear of Lafayette?"

This is the most recent picture we have of France.



82 posted on 11/05/2005 5:50:05 PM PST by Earthdweller (Earth to liberals..we were not in Iraq on 9/11..so how did the war cause terrorism again?)
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To: ml/nj
"Ever hear of Lafayette?"

Ever hear of Normandy?

Ever hear of Ypres?

War of 1812?

Oh, yeah, the French and Indian Wars?

Quebec?

83 posted on 11/05/2005 5:51:08 PM PST by norton (This is not about the DIA or the CIA. This is about CYA...)
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To: oceanview

the Downtown of Paris I'm sure


84 posted on 11/05/2005 5:53:10 PM PST by Murtyo
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To: RightWhale
Good evening.

France needs the modern versions of the paratroop Mafia from Indochina and Algiers to step up to the plate.

No luck there I think.

Michael Frazier
85 posted on 11/05/2005 5:55:10 PM PST by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: norton
The French are really Anglo-Saxon Protestants who fled from an RC dominated europe 200 years ago?

So that's it for you WASPs or nothing? Would you write off the Italians too?

ML/NJ

86 posted on 11/05/2005 5:55:38 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: 1rudeboy
It's more likely that what is happening now is why Chirac didn't support the Iraq invasion.

The car burning has been going on for years (It's an annual event in Neuhof, near Strasbourg).

Jacques (All mouth and no guts) Chirac spoke out about this almost 9 years ago

French President Jacques Chirac, in his annual New Year message, denounced growing violence in France and urged people to help the police control the problem. He said: "There is too much violence in our country, too much insecurity - in the schools, on public transport. Every day new limits are broken beyond which our society will disintegrate."

Too bad he didn't take his own words seriously.

87 posted on 11/05/2005 5:56:41 PM PST by syriacus (Youthful angst of "Bowling for Columbine" + political passion of "Fahrenheit 9/11" = MOOLIGANs)
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To: DogBarkTree
'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.

Why does the name Watts keep coming back into my mind?

88 posted on 11/05/2005 5:57:21 PM PST by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: BurbankKarl
"Maybe Saddam should run France from now on."

Ah... perhaps someday we will be able to sail down the romantic and beautiful River HusSeine, in the heart of Paris...

89 posted on 11/05/2005 5:57:59 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad...Jihadn't.)
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To: 1rudeboy
It's more likely that what is happening now is why Chirac didn't support the Iraq invasion.

France supported and provided troops in the war to remove Saddam from Kuwait. They did not have Chirac as their leader then. Chirac is aligned with the terrorist. That is why the riots are being allowed to spread. Perhaps its time for the Free World to give the commanders of the French Nuclear subs the ultimatum to surface and surrender.

90 posted on 11/05/2005 5:59:09 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

absolutely..or else the rioters will go to the sea and throw rocks at them..:)


91 posted on 11/05/2005 6:00:07 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (Islam is a religion of peace and they'll behead you to prove it...)
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To: DogBarkTree

It's time for France to end the occupation of Islamic territory. I call for the formation of a equal State side by side with France (for now) with the Islamic holy city of Paris as its capital.
/sarc


92 posted on 11/05/2005 6:01:07 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: ml/nj

BOO HOO, the rotten french are getting what they deserve and are seemingly uncapable of stopping. HEY FRANCE-TRY BULLETS.
I know maybe they can call John Kerry for help, you know he was in Vietnam-LOL!!!!!!


93 posted on 11/05/2005 6:02:04 PM PST by bfree (Liberals are evil and should be eliminated)
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To: ml/nj
"So that's it for you WASPs or nothing? Would you write off the Italians too?"

Americans should not fall pray to attempts to make us feel guilty. All types of Americans are buried on french soil.

94 posted on 11/05/2005 6:02:30 PM PST by Earthdweller (Earth to liberals..we were not in Iraq on 9/11..so how did the war cause terrorism again?)
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To: ml/nj
Good evening.
"... their culture is our culture."

And there are those 350 nuke warheads.

Michael Frazier
95 posted on 11/05/2005 6:02:33 PM PST by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: Ciexyz

I am hoping to make it to Normandy at some point in my life to pay my respects and say thank you to our brave men who lie there.

I guess I had better do it soon...


96 posted on 11/05/2005 6:07:12 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: brazzaville
"And there are those 350 nuke warheads."

I wonder if Chiraq will let us know when the islamofascists get close to the stockpile.

97 posted on 11/05/2005 6:08:17 PM PST by Earthdweller (Earth to liberals..we were not in Iraq on 9/11..so how did the war cause terrorism again?)
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To: RightWhale

France needs a Napoleon. He used artillery to rake the rioters that attempted to storm the Assembly in Paris. Grapeshot, point blank baby!!


98 posted on 11/05/2005 6:19:40 PM PST by Fee (`+Great powers never let minor allies dictate who, where and when they must fight.)
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To: DogBarkTree
'Rioting has become a trend sport."

Chic French flambes have suddenly become very sheik.

99 posted on 11/05/2005 6:19:46 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad...Jihadn't.)
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To: DogBarkTree

The French understanding-and-appeasement response certainly seems to be working out well.


100 posted on 11/05/2005 6:19:51 PM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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