This is the most recent picture we have of France.
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.
Throw some Aussies in and you'd have a real party.
This is the most recent picture we have of France.
Ever hear of Normandy?
Ever hear of Ypres?
War of 1812?
Oh, yeah, the French and Indian Wars?
Quebec?
the Downtown of Paris I'm sure
So that's it for you WASPs or nothing? Would you write off the Italians too?
ML/NJ
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.
Why does the name Watts keep coming back into my mind?
Ah... perhaps someday we will be able to sail down the romantic and beautiful River HusSeine, in the heart of Paris...
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.
absolutely..or else the rioters will go to the sea and throw rocks at them..:)
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
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!!!!!!
Americans should not fall pray to attempts to make us feel guilty. All types of Americans are buried on french soil.
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...
I wonder if Chiraq will let us know when the islamofascists get close to the stockpile.
France needs a Napoleon. He used artillery to rake the rioters that attempted to storm the Assembly in Paris. Grapeshot, point blank baby!!
Chic French flambes have suddenly become very sheik.
The French understanding-and-appeasement response certainly seems to be working out well.
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