All Quiet on the Western Front:
Posted on 11/06/2005 5:07:47 AM PST by Dane
He also said that French radio was way behind the curve. Remember this is France we are talking about, and like I said before, the broadcast media there is essentially state controlled.
Yep, and it is beginning to look pretty good managed. I wonder how many Molotov cocktail factories are located in Mosques.
The radio has been very tightlipped. The same headlines recycled the whole time I've been listening, with occasional new things.
But it's all old news--stuff from yesterday and this morning, nothing about what is happening right now.
I can't help but contrast this with the coverage after the London bombing.
There will come a time when Islam will have to be deemed incompatible with western society. Who will be the first country to do it?
That's what I find so ironic... The one "youth" speaking in regards to Sarkozy calling them "scum" said that the insult was as if he "declared war". They said they are "fighting so their friends' death would not be in vain". They are truly delusional... The ones rioting ARE scum - showing complete disrespect for their "own" - burning down the schools and businesses of their neighbors and families. Attacking women, senior citizens, firefighters, paramedics, and disabled people...
What's most scary is that they show the same sort of attitude as some of the "poor" in this country. Entitlement, self-righteousness, etc... No interest in personal responsibility.
"they aren't going to be able to enforce a curfew - that's the sad truth of the matter"
I was just about to say the exact same thing.
It's at least that; I heard the term "dozens," with at least two being critical.
I wonder why the police haven't shot back? Have they been told not to? If their hands are tied like that when officers are getting hurt, it's no surprise their morale is zero.
at least things look good in New Orleans now...;o)
http://www.nola.com/fqcam/
They were reporting the other day that police had only "non-lethal" bullets (rubber pellets?).
Looks like the French should dust off the Committee for Public Safety before the insurgents do it for them.
The radio has been very tightlipped. The same headlines recycled the whole time I've been listening, with occasional new things.
From French News on shooting:
http://news.tf1.fr/news/france/0,,3260739,00.html
Babelfish translation:
Twenty-nine police officers wounded by shootings
Suburbs:Twenty-nine police officers wounded by shooting About thirty police officers were wounded Sunday evening in Grigny (the Essonne), including two seriously, by shootings of guns with shot. Fires of vehicles and attacks of public buildings had begun again as of Sunday afternoon in provinc
Whereas the groups of breakers seemed to avoid the contact with the police force during previous nights, of the confrontations violent one occurred Sunday evening in Grigny, in the Essonne. About thirty police officers were wounded by shootings guns with shot. Two CRS were more seriously reached, whereas 27 their colleagues were it more slightly. At the time of these clashes between police officers and young breakers, no arrest was announced. In the same department, incidents took place in the city of Tarterêts of Corbeil-Essonnes, around fifty of masked young people having in particular tried to project a vehicle on a bus of CRS located downwards of a road. A school was also burnt with Savigny-on-Barley. Also in Paris area, the principal treasury of Trap doors (Yvelines) was burnt. The traffic of the buses of the RATP was in addition disturbed Sunday evening in Parisian suburbs because of urban violences, particularly in the departments of Seine-Saint-Denis and the Top-of-Seine.
In province also, the number of announced incidents was increasing to the wire of the evening. Fires of vehicles were announced in Nantes. Several cars were burned in Rouen and Le Havre Sunday at the beginning of evening, whereas a car ram was launched against a police station of a "sensitive" district of the agglomeration rouennaise. In Toulouse, incidents also occurred in Mirail between a group of about thirty young people and police force which answered by shootings of teargas jets of various projectiles. A nursery school was burnt with Saint-Etienne and eight weight-heavy with Roanne.
Also in the afternoon of Sunday, a bus was set fire to by a group of young people in the suburbs of Saint-Etienne and two people were slightly wounded in the fire. Towards 16H30, a group is gotten into the bus on the level of the commune of Ricamarie (the Loire). They ordered to the passengers to go down and poured gasoline in the vehicle, which they ignited before all the passengers did not have time to leave, according to the police force and the Company of public transport of the agglomeration inhabitant of Saint-Etienne (STAS). The vehicle was completely destroyed by the flames. Its driver and momentary was taken charges some by the firemen because of light burns. The traffic of the buses was completely stopped in the agglomeration. In the night of Saturday to Sunday, confrontations between young people and the police force had already occurred in Saint-Etienne and a fifteen year old teenager had been challenged and placed in police custody. But then, the intervention of the families had brought back calms it.
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Article continues for a few more paragraphs.
All Quiet on the Western Front:
LOL - Shock and Awe???
I got a WW2 picture with 3 French soldiers surrendering to German forces in 1940. Their hands are over their heads and they're LAUGHING!
'Whatta nation.
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