Posted on 11/06/2005 7:49:08 AM PST by anonymoussierra
France has suffered its heaviest riot damage yet as warnings of tough prison sentences failed to deter arsonists. Police reported 1,295 vehicle burnings and made 312 arrests as unrest in African and Arab communities spread to Strasbourg, Toulouse and Nantes.
On the 10th consecutive night of riots, four cars were torched on Place de la Republique in central Paris along with others in the central 17th District.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy had warned of stiff jail sentences.
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In some areas of Paris, night buses were cancelled as a precaution.
Police helicopters patrolled the skies over the capital, attempting to pursue and identify those responsible for the attacks.
Unrest began after the deaths of two youths in the rundown Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois on 27 October, who were accidentally electrocuted at an electricity sub-station after reportedly fleeing police.
The northern town of Evreux in Normandy saw some of the worst unrest overnight with at least 30 cars burned along with three shops, the local authorities said.
A school was also petrol-bombed in the town while four police officers were injured in clashes with youths, some of them reportedly wielding baseball bats.
Saturday night's violence was the worst reported to date:
A McDonald's was rammed by a car and almost completely burnt out in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris
Five classrooms of a nursery in Grigny, south of Paris, were destroyed by fire while a primary school was also slightly damaged
A recycling facility was attacked in the Essone area near Paris, with 800 sq m of paper going up in flames and at least 35 vehicles torched
In Drancy, north-east of Paris, two teenagers were caught and handed over to police after they tried to set fire to a lorry.
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Marches
Earlier on Saturday hundreds of people joined marches in Paris suburbs to protest against the violence.
In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt out vehicles and buildings with banners reading "No to violence" and "Yes to dialogue".
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met eight key ministers and the head of the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur.
After the meeting, Mr Boubakeur urged a change in tone from the government.
"What I want from the authorities, from Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials are words of peace," he said.
Mr de Villepin has been holding a series of meetings with public figures and ordinary people from the affected areas as he seeks an end to the crisis.
Mr Sarkozy's much-quoted description of urban vandals as "rabble" (racaille) a few days before the riots began is said by many to have already created tension.
Reports of a police tear gas grenade hitting a mosque during the riots further inflamed feelings.
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What would I do? Call for a curfew, back it up with shoot to kill immediately. Then cut off all welfare, shove them into their own chaos, to form their own communities to rebuild. Not one dime.
PS The Mongols converted to Islam in 1260, probably finding it compatible.
Churchhill could to the heart of matter in a very succinct way.
I do agree with that. It's implications for other nation states is grim. Europe is destroying it's own citilization.
The implactions of this should not be lost with regard to the hoards flooding into our own nation.
IMO, northern European whites are in danger of loosing self-determination within a generation. Will that bode well for the planet? That's a question we should consider at some point.
i say we get the UN to send all the "youth" who are rioting a strongly worded resolution. And maybe some foreign aid to help sweeten the deal.
how bout a fluffy pastry for oil program?
Where is this from?
Response: So far the French government seems incapable of stopping the riots. This raises the question, where are the French people? The American government will be equally inept when the Third World uprising starts here but some how I think the people will be able to handle it by themselves. It will not be nice, but it will be handled. A lot of injustices towards the American people will be rectified at that time.
Presumably, this is why CFR and Bush are pushing the one happy hemisphere deal/globalization so hard. If we can find some way for the hordes to earn a decent living back home, and if we can persuade their govts. this is in their self interest, we won't be overrun by millions of illegals. (Ahem). Well, it's a plan, and so much can and is/will go wrong. We export American jobs by the millions to accomplish this, and down in South America protestors scream that it's not fair for Americans to have all the jobs. Meanwhile, every single day, the MSM connives to bring this country to its knees.
Think of it this way. There are probably about thirty-five nations in the Americas. If each get two representatives to participate in the AU, how much influence will we have over the laws that will be designed to regulate us?
Answer 1/35th. Does that sound like some form of representation that would lead to a better life in the U.S.?
Being the big guy on the block, we will be targeted for a takedown. We will be uttlerly defenseless.
If Fidel Castro, a Manuael Noriega type, and the most recent dunderhead in South America, plus a few other nations with problematic leaders were to have two votes to combine into something like 14 votes against our two, would that make you feel better?
No, this is an extremely flawed premise. The best bet would be to see us skid into oblivion under such a plan. We've already seen how willing our leaders are to defend our nation with regard to border or trade issues.
An AU would simply multiply that problem exponentially. We will have lost a representative form of government.
You're right, and they're blithely selling us down the river. They want free trade and free travel throughout the hemisphere and have actually said they'll call former illegals, 'trusted travelers'. Utopian nonsense.
And to make things worse, they have the gall to slide this stuff past the general dumb public without explaining anything. They knew it'd be the only way NAFTA, CAFTA and God knows what they'll come up with next had a chance at sliding under the radar. The whole mess is clearly unconstitutional.
Of course today the ACLU and CAIR would be screaming that it was hate speech. I'd enjoy hearing them scream.
I agree. Thanks for the comments.
The truth is the truth!
Hi Sara--this is really horrible what's going on in France. The fact that French President alongside leftist Politically Correct press blames his own interior minister Sarkozy for tough remarks on rioters rather than rioters themselves shows that current French leadership has no willpower to use tough measures to stop them. Nevertheless, they will have no choice but to introduce curfews and possibly call up military. Otherwise, the entire France could be burned taking much of the Western Europe with it. No normal person wants it.
French government allowed Muslim communities to remain closed in their own world without insisting on a responsibility to integrate and to accept the democratic values of French Republic. We see the results--bunch of youth from Islamic ghettoes burning the entire France down. Let's hope that France will find a will power to deal firmly with riots including using tough measures. Poverty is sad but it's absolutely NO excuse to behave abhorrently toward your fellow human beings and destroy their lives and property.
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