Posted on 11/06/2005 5:38:17 AM PST by Cplus
In spite of the calls for calm, violence continues (With AFP.) [ November 06, 2005 ] The destruction created by the riots in the French suburbs has grown louder and louder for 10 days and reached the peak of 1295 vehicles burned and 312 people arrested in the night of Saturday to Sunday, according to the final assessment of the general direction of the national police force. The day before, the final assessment of the disorders made account of 897 burnt vehicles. The calls for calm however had multiplied Saturday. One of them emanated from the parents of the two Clichy-under-Wood young people (Seine-Saint-Denis) whose death by electrocution on October 27 had been used as setting off the riots. Sign of the will of firmness posted by the government vis-a-vis with the rioters, seven helicopters provided with powerful projectors and of video cameras had been mobilized in the night to dissuade the troublemakers. But neither these new material means, nor the reinforcements as police officers seemed to intimidate the arsonists, who operated in the heart of the capital, in the 3rd district where four cars were burned by a Flame Thrower while a half-dozen of vehicles were in flames in 17th. Thirty-two private vehicles were set fire to and destroyed by fire in downtown Paris in the night of Saturday to Sunday, and thirty people were arrested, indicated Sunday the prefecture of police force of Paris (PP). Among these thirty arrested people, eleven were "in flagrante delicto with FlameThrowers", according to this same source. The night was also marked by violent confrontations one in Evreux, where the shopping centre of the district of the Madeleine, was seriously damaged and where young demonstrators, of which some were armed with bats, ran up against the police officers, according to the observations and testimonys collected on the spot. These confrontations resulted in casualties on both sides, according to these testimonys. The prefecture was not able to provide an assessment. Elsewhere in province, the fires of vehicles were particularly numerous, nearly 80, in the departments of North, Aisne and Oise, according to prefectures'. In Toulouse, around fifty of voluntary fires whose 40 burned cars had been raised and ten interpellations. In Avignon, 11 cars were aimed. In Parisian suburbs, many buildings, two schools of Grigny and MacDo of Corbeil-Essonnes smashed by a car-ram, and vehicles (71) blazed up in the Essonne, where the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy as a sign of support went for the police officers. In Evry, the minister in particular met challenged teenagers who were to be given to their parents. Around fifty of people were arrested in this department. "To burn a school, it is unacceptable but that which put fire it is Sarkozy", maintained Saturday evening a relative of pupil of Grigny. The gymnasium Armand Desmet, "more affluent" of Clichy-under-Wood (Seine-Saint-Denis), entirely burned in the night, a fire of criminal origin, one learned near the municipality. In Athis-Mons, two people were slightly injured by inhalation and a hundred evacuated in the night after the fire of a Sonacotray hearth. In addition, at least 80 burnt vehicles and 20 arrests were recorded in Yvelines, respectively 90 and 67 as a Seine-Saint-Denis, 33 and 32 in Valley-of Oise. In Mureaux, about thirty young people perched on the roof of two towers of the district of the Musicians, threw all kinds of projectiles on the police force at the beginning of evening, under the illumination of a helicopter. These new figures carry to nearly 3.500 the number of vehicles set fire to since the beginning of the riots, according to a calculation established on the basis of daily assessment provided by the national police force. According to this same calculation, more than 800 arrests were carried out since October 27. The foreign media continue to look with concern to develop these violent protests in the French suburbs, which are often socio-economic places of segregation for a population as a majority of immigrant origin. These riots are a warning for Europe which integration requires a political solution, the president of the British Commission on the equality of races (CRE) writes Trevor Phillips in a platform published Sunday by Observing it Trevor Phillips. "Our French neighbors are giving us the strongest alarm which they can (as regards integration)", written Trevor Phillips. "you Awake all".
Well worth watching.
The Reuters captions could not be improved by a tongue-in-cheek Mark Steyn.
Oh those "French youths".
That's the problem, right there. If they had a free, capitalist society, the "arab youth" would be assimilating outward, getting careers and climbing the ladder of prosperity, as immigrants tend to do in the U.S. Instead, they remain in the ghetto, with just enough in socialist welfare support to keep them idle, uninspired and motivated to commit crimes.
"How is it possible there have been very few casualties during these riots?Are the rioters unarmed?"Good question.I've been wondering about that as well.I imagine they have guns.Could they be waiting for the french authorities to fire the first shots?Then use that as an excuse to break out the ak's,rpg's,ied's?Could you imagine the msm headlines?French Police Shoot Unarmed Demonstrators!
the problem is they DON'T want to be assimilated into French culture..they want the French to assimilate into THEIR culture..in the words of the Borg, resistance is futile..
Deer slugs...
(D)evolution in action; the remaining gene pool was comprised of the weak and cowardly ie the survivors.
"French-Arab ghettos contained by welfare state's largesse."
That's the problem, right there. If they had a free, capitalist society, the "arab youth" would be assimilating outward, getting careers and climbing the ladder of prosperity, as immigrants tend to do in the U.S. Instead, they remain in the ghetto, with just enough in socialist welfare support to keep them idle, uninspired and motivated to commit crimes.
*I wonder if most Muslim immigrants would want a capitalist society offering only the freedom of economic self-determination and enterprise? It seems a fact that Muslim (and immigrant) populations in both England and France depend upon social welfare. With four (?) calls to prayer daily with an involved protocol, how employable are Muslims anyway? And if the Boss has portraits of his pet potbelly pig in his office, why would the Boss hire a Muslim who would be so offended by the image of pigs that he would demand the removal of the Boss' pet pig portraits?
For their own sake, deport the Muslim/Islamics to more compatible social environs - maybe the Sahara desert.
It is insane to appease the inane.
Chirac and government evidently await Kofi Annany's and John Kerry's recommendations for a global consensus:
Dateline today from BBC News:
"President Jacques Chirac has called security talks at the presidential palace in Paris."
"Key government ministers have been holding consultations on the problem."
The Vichy Soisie...merde alors!
Mais l'electronic-age guillotine...
Nape and bake the MoHamHead burbs.
"Nape and bake the MoHamHead burbs."
According to THEIR tradition, showcase them heads on the Eiffel Tower? Nah, more "altruistic" to deport them to a compatible climate like the Sahara Desert.
bet it was LOUD / had quite an echo at street level...
they should use it.
Couldbe wrong; Je ne sais pas.
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