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French rioters open fire on police, 10 hurt
Reuters Alert Net ^ | November 6, 2005

Posted on 11/06/2005 4:13:26 PM PST by HAL9000

GRIGNY, France, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Rioters fired shots at police in an 11th night of riots in France on Sunday, injuring 10 policemen, two of them seriously, police said.

Some 200 youths were lobbing stones and other objects at police in Grigny, south of Paris, a police spokesman said, adding that some of the rioters had fired at officers with shotguns, hitting 10 policemen.

Two officers were being treated in hospital, one with lead shot wounds to the throat, the other with wounds to a leg.

Asked whether the rioters could have killed someone, the spokesman said: "Probably not at this distance, but they could have caused bad injuries, or turn one of the officers blind."

The fresh violence came just hours after President Jacques Chirac vowed to restore order, making his first public comments since the riots started in Paris's poor suburbs on Oct. 27.

"The Republic is quite determined, by definition, to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Chirac said after a domestic security council met to respond to the violence in which thousands of cars have gone up in flames.

"The law must have the last word," Chirac said.

Rioting began with the accidental electrocution of two youths apparently fleeing police. Their deaths ignited frustration among ethnic minorities over racism, unemployment, police treatment and their marginal place in French society.

The riots have spread from Paris's bleak suburbs to other French cities. Towns such as Toulouse, Nantes and Strasbourg were hit by violence on Sunday.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chirac; dangtheygotguns; france; frenchmuslims; grigny; insurgency; leo; parisriots; riot; rioters; riots; uprising
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To: HAL9000

You'd think the police would take up arms and overthrow their opressors for this injustice!


21 posted on 11/06/2005 4:27:30 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: HAL9000

How come the police aren't responding to this? Are they armed with spitballs or something?


22 posted on 11/06/2005 4:29:09 PM PST by Simmy2.5 (There are more conspiracies at DU then there are on Coast to Coast AM.)
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To: Carling

It appears that they were sprayed with birdshot which is definitely not lethal beyond 30 yards or so


23 posted on 11/06/2005 4:29:57 PM PST by spanalot
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To: Brilliant
These guys just don't want to face reality.

They know what reality is; they just don't want to give the impression that things are getting beyond the "angry youth" bullshit level.

This is like watching those "World's Scariest Videos" where the dumb-butt drivers try to out-race the police: you know how it is going to end, you just don't know how nasty the crack-up will be.

24 posted on 11/06/2005 4:30:17 PM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: HAL9000

"Asked whether the rioters could have killed someone, the spokesman said: "Probably not at this distance, but they could have caused bad injuries, or turn one of the officers blind."

It's like they are making excuses,too far,no real injuries...here even shots would be answered in kind times 10


25 posted on 11/06/2005 4:31:39 PM PST by rang1995 (They will love us when we win)
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To: HAL9000

The "rioters" probably got some of their ideas from watching TV (FROM AL-JAZEERA TO THEIR OWN FRENCH CHANNELS)
and seeing the "insurgents" in Iraq and the "intifada" of the Palestinians covered from the terrorist perspective by
left-wing journalists.


26 posted on 11/06/2005 4:31:56 PM PST by Nextrush (The Soviet Union died, but the National Education Association is alive and well.)
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To: HAL9000
How much worse has this got to get? The French have made things so bad by their INACTION that only a Tinamen-like response will settle this. Not that the Muslims are anything like those poor folks the PLA gunned down in 1989.

I do also wonder the makeup of the Armed Forces in France, how much of it worships Mecca? Wouldn't do to commit the troops and then find out half of them defect to the damn rioters.

28 posted on 11/06/2005 4:32:25 PM PST by Braak (The US Military, the real arms inspectors!)
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To: cripplecreek
Just shoot the molotov.

BOOM
30 posted on 11/06/2005 4:33:08 PM PST by Danae (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: pabianice

"I love the smell of burning French cities in the morning. It smells like... poetic justice!"

A GREAT line!


31 posted on 11/06/2005 4:33:37 PM PST by purpleland (Vigilance and Valor!)
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To: Brilliant
Egad... Not very tolerant of him.

French or sharia ??

32 posted on 11/06/2005 4:33:51 PM PST by oldbrowser (A living, breathing constitution is a usurpation of the people's sovereignty.)
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To: varyouga

Muzzies believe they can convert by the sword.

Fine.

Level the playing field.


33 posted on 11/06/2005 4:36:32 PM PST by Peelod (Decentia est fragilis. Curatoribus validis indiget.)
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To: HAL9000

The Muslims were using shotguns loaded with buckshot to fire on the police. According to other news accounts.

Will the Islamic scum surpass yesterday's 1,300 automobiles torched? They use a crowbar to smash a window, then toss in a Molotov cocktail


34 posted on 11/06/2005 4:36:37 PM PST by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: Carling

Methinks pellet guns were used, even a .22 LR has a 1.5 mile range.


35 posted on 11/06/2005 4:37:05 PM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Panerai
"Or anyone with a molotov."

It is time for a martial law, sun down to sun up curfew, and violators will be shot on sight government policy, just like we did during the Rodney King riots. No, wait a minute, we didn't do that. We just let them riot until they had burned everything, got tired and went home.

The sad fact is that our government probably won't do any better than the French are doing when our own home grown Muslim Jihadists begin to riot. And they will, it's just a matter of time.

36 posted on 11/06/2005 4:37:51 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Carling

Memo to France - Shoot back!


37 posted on 11/06/2005 4:38:23 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Braak
I do also wonder the makeup of the Armed Forces in France, how much of it worships Mecca?

About 15%.

38 posted on 11/06/2005 4:38:52 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: spanalot
True, but the intent was to cause injury. The police may not be so lucky the next time. This thing is escalating and still the French government seems paralyzed.
39 posted on 11/06/2005 4:39:31 PM PST by asp1
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To: HAL9000
"Some 200 youths were lobbing stones and other objects at police in Grigny, south of Paris, a police spokesman said, adding that some of the rioters had fired at officers with shotguns, hitting 10 policemen."

Just some poor, harmless ticked off teens..nothing to see here. /sarc

40 posted on 11/06/2005 4:39:39 PM PST by Earthdweller (Earth to liberals..we were not in Iraq on 9/11..so how did the war cause terrorism again?)
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