Thousand cars torched in latest French riots(Paris/France burns, Live Thread Night #11)

Reuters ^ | 11/06/05 | Elisabeth Pineau

[Dane]

Thousand cars torched in latest French riots Sun Nov 6, 2005 12:17 PM GMT

By Elisabeth Pineau

PARIS (Reuters) - Gangs of youths torched 1,300 vehicles overnight in the 10th consecutive night of violence in Paris's poor suburbs and major French towns, despite the deployment of thousands of extra police.

Cars were burnt out in the historic centre of Paris for the first time on Saturday night. In the normally quiet Normandy town of Evreux, a shopping mall, 50 vehicles, a post office and two schools went up in flames.

Authorities have so far found no way beyond appeals and more police to address a problem with complex social, economic and racial causes.

Evreux mayor Jean-Louis Debre, a confidant of President Jacques Chirac and speaker of the lower house of parliament, told France Info radio:

"To those responsible for the violence, I want to say: Be serious ... If you want to live in a fairer, more fraternal society, this is not how to go about it."

The deaths 10 days ago of two youths apparently fleeing police ignited pent up frustrations among young men, many of them Muslims of North and black African origin, at racism, unemployment, their marginal place in French society and their treatment by the police.

"Many youths have never seen their parents work and couldn't hold down a job if they got one," said Claude Chevallier, manager of a burned-out carpet depot in the rundown Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois.

But authorities now say the rolling nightly riots are being organised via the Internet and mobile phones, and have pointed the finger at drug traffickers and Islamist militants.

Overnight, 1,295 vehicles were torched across France, the highest total so far, police said. An extra 2,300 officers have been drafted in.

Seven police helicopters buzzed over the Paris region through the night, filming disturbances and directing mobile squads to incidents. Overnight, police made 349 arrests.

The number of incidents in the Paris region was similar to the night before, but in the provinces it was up sharply.

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The violence has tarnished France's image abroad, forcing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to cancel a trip to Canada, while Russia and the United States have warned their citizens to avoid Paris's troubled suburbs.

Villepin has combined a call for an end to the riots with dialogue with community leaders, youngsters and local officials, and has promised an action plan for 750 tough neighbourhoods.

"I'll make proposals as early as this week," the weekly Journal du Dimanche quoted him as saying.

But it remained unclear what could stop the violence, though some opposition parties have suggested a symbolic measure -- the resignation of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

Accused of stoking passions by calling troublemakers "scum", Sarkozy has ignored calls to quit. A survey published on Sunday indicated his public image was holding up, even if many disapproved of his strong language.

Villepin also has ambitions to be the right wing's presidential candidate in 2007 and has tried to position himself as a much more consensual figure than Sarkozy; the effect on the crisis on his ratings is still unclear.

With no end in sight to the nights of wailing sirens, acrid smoke, stone-throwing and destruction, residents from all ethnic backgrounds are tiring of the unrest.

"My kids can't sleep at night," said a mother named Samia in Aulnay-sous-Bois. "They hear explosions, they see fires and they think they're in a war. When the slightest thing happens, they get anxious and say 'Mama, what's going on?'"

[Fred Nerks]

More 'buer yoots'? LOL!

[eeevil conservative]

Why am I not surprised.....

[oldenuff2no]

Do you think it's time to call in the military? Things get worse every night and they don't have a clue. Anarchy will only produce more anarchy in a geometric progression. If the government does not suppress and end this violence then the people will begin to take measures to protect themselves and their possessions. Somewhere in all of this the world will finally see who the enemy is, young Muslims.
France is in a live or die, survival situation right now. Their socialism is on financial life support already and now the gangrene of Islam is attacking the body that is feeding it. I'm sure glad we have the second amendment, at least we still have it in parts of our nation. I wonder what the other parts are going to do when they start their crap here. Lock and load.

[BurbankKarl]

French police patrol near an apartment building in Grigny, south of Paris, on the 11th night of violence late November 6, 2005. President Jacques Chirac vowed to restore order in France after riots in Paris spread across the country. ATTENTION EDITORS - FRENCH LAW REQUIRES THAT FACES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BE MASKED IN PUBLICATIONS WITHIN FRANCE

French police holds a shotgun shell recovered after they were shot upon in Grigny, south of Paris on the 11th night of violence late November 6, 2005

[the_Watchman]

Dane-Geld
A.D. 980-1016

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"

-Rudyard Kipling

[eeevil conservative]

The military?

Images of Ivory Coast come to mind...... wonder how deep the MSM would bury those images.....

or would they?

[strategofr]

"My oldest brother who lived in one the most ideally planned suburbs was unable to even get his mail without his mailbox being urinated on.»"

Tough to comment on...

[LikeLight]

See my 653 above.

[Cplus]

Le Pen ic currently a Member of the European Parliament on a visit to Cyprus.

[strategofr]

"Police were hurt by shots and baseball-bat-wielding youths as rioting raged on for its eleventh night in France despite a vow from President Jacques Chirac that public order would be restored."

Sounds like it's pretty much over now. Chirac has escalated to a "vow".

[strategofr]

"sitting on a rock all day and they're content that way."

Sounds like a lizard.

[strategofr]

"Le Pen"

I thought he was killed, maybe?

[mysonsfuture]

Thanks. He needs to come back home and lead his people.

[antisocialista]

Very Nice!!!

[Paladin2]

I thought that calling 911 in Texas brings a resupply of ammo expended.

[Dark Skies]

Meanwhile, Sarkozy has received a prize for his anti-Semitic stance.

He is Jewish on his mother's side...what anti-semitic prize?

[Fred Nerks]

from the link re the Denmark Riots...

"...The riots have increased following a cartoon in Danish paper The Jyllands Pos involving Mohammed..."

MEDIA LIES! There never were any 'cartoons' of mohammad, someone wanted illustrations for the front of a book about the 'prophet' and twelve illustrations were submitted by various artists. However, it is 'against islam' to show the face of the prophet...so all hell broke lose. Sort of reminds me of the 'desecrated koran' incident.

If the ENEMEDIA told the truth, it would be a cold day in hell. Here's one of the pics...I saved what I could, they are disappearing fast.

[antisocialista]

You buy the first round.

[LikeLight]

[eeevil conservative]

DANG!

Well- that sure looks hilarious.......I am just sick of the LIES!

SICK OF IT!