Posted on 11/05/2005 5:46:40 PM PST by NewMediaFan
PARIS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Schools were torched and more than 600 cars set on fire in cities across France in a tenth night of rioting in poor suburban areas that went into the early hours of Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.
Police ranks were beefed up across France and in several Paris suburbs as the continuing violence put added pressure on the government to act quickly.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin also summoned eight key ministers and a top Muslim official to his offices on Saturday as he sought to chart an end to the violence.
"We are trying to be firm and avoid any provocation," Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said following the meeting.
In Saturday night's rioting, police said 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half outside the Paris region.
Two schools were set ablaze in the Paris suburb of Essonne, but no one was reported hurt, the Interior Ministry said.
The violence has been seen as the expression of pent-up anger by youths, many Muslims of North African and black African origin, at police treatment, racism, unemployment and their marginal place in French society.
A number of public and commercial buildings were targeted, authorities said. In Evreux in Normandy, a mall was set on fire, burning down more than 50 vehicles while a post office and two schools were also set alight...
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Be careful! Prayin' for your safety.
And thank you for your service!
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.....Normandy......Hmmmm....IIRC, isn't that the place where the US has some VERY sacred real estate???...
IMHO, the French can let the cars and buildings burn, but they'd better AT LEAST put some kind of SUBSTANTIAL defense around that area, and I can only imagine what it would be like to be a "mudlum" OR FRENCH if ANYTHING EVEN CLOSE TO BEING DESTRUCTIVE happens there....
Too late, at least on the region, and I'm ahead of you on the contingency planning.
Riots spread beyond French capital (Marseilles, Dijon and Normandy)
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Send in Jimmy Carter. We might all get lucky. He could get trapped on a burning bus.
Translation,,,,, We have ordered surrender flags, but they have not arrived.
Those cemetaries are American soil. They do that and I would expect some real action..at least one would think so.
I personally wont be surprised if this goes on for over 14 days and MAYBE the French Political Leader will grow a pair of BALLS and stop the rampaging of these violent muslims.
Leave it to the French to worry about provoking anyone while they are in the middle of getting their A$$es kicked!
this reminds me of what the french guy says in monty python and the holy grail "I fart in your general direction"..seems like that's the basic response to this latest uprising..
I gotta agree.
Certainly, the events of the last few years have proven the French to be unworthy of the spilling of any more American blood.
One thing that concerns me is how easily Islamofacists could conceivably roll a society of sheep. In many part of this country, that's us. Just how tough can Katie Couric and Oprah watchers be?
Not many years ago, IIRC, France had near state of the art atomic/thermonuclear technology. Hmmm, Who would come into possession of this if France falls? Hmmm.
Your mistake is understandable. Who'd have thunk that a country that was razed by the Nazis and one that still has plenty of people from that generation still alive, and many in government, would sit still for this. What short memories people have. They'd always rather spend decades at enormous costs digging themselves out from under some dung heap than simply undertake some preventative maintenance.
Having recently spent time in that alternate reality known as France, I can say this is absolutely true!
The French need to put Jeanny Depp in charge of the French citizen militas.
Yeah, or when at the wedding when the castle owner (Michael Palin) is trying to keep things civil:
"Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who! This is supposed to be a happy occasion."
yea.."I blow my nose at you, Arthur King..you and all your silly English knnnnnnnigets"..again, this seems like the best the french can do..lots of talk, no action..
Pretty soon the French will be the Black Knight and the Eurabians will be King Arthur.
I'm gonna LMAO in black comedy fashion if France falls to Islam because of this.
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