Posted on 11/06/2005 7:54:34 PM PST by Pikamax
10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities By CRAIG S. SMITH PARIS, Monday, Nov. 7 - Rioters fired shotguns at the police in a working-class suburb of Paris on Sunday, wounding 10 officers as the country's fast-spreading urban unrest escalated dangerously. Just hours earlier, President Jacques Chirac called an emergency meeting of top security officials and promised increased police pressure to confront the violence.
"The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Mr. Chirac said at a news conference in the courtyard of Élysée Palace after meeting with his internal security council. "The last word must be from the law."
But the violence, which has become one of the most serious challenges to governmental authority here in nearly 40 years, showed no sign of abating, and Sunday was the first day that police officers had been wounded by gunfire in the unrest. More than 3,300 vehicles have been destroyed, along with dozens of public buildings and private businesses, since the violence began.
"This is just the beginning," said Moussa Diallo, 22, a tall, unemployed French-African man in Clichy-sous-Bois, the working-class Parisian suburb where the violence started Oct. 27. "It's not going to end until there are two policemen dead."
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Now that was one medevil movie....dang !
Could this be the second front that terrorists have been looking for? Occupy Western armies so that the Middle East will be left alone? Could this spread to other parts of Europe?
To where across the pond, Oh Canada, the UK? It ain't gonna happen here, period.
Need some of the armed citizens in France to go totally untrained ballistic and put a stop to the nonsense.
.22 LR behind the left ear does wonders for quelling insurrections.
Methinks it will come from the La Raza infected Barrios.
The French have the means, they are as usual lacking the intestinal fortitude to take action, until it is too late.
It took Mayor Richard J. Daley exactly one night to respond to the riots that followed the murder of Martin Luther King in Memphis TN on April 4, 1968. He directed the Superintendant of Police to issue an order to "shoot to kill any arsonists, or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in their hands, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city."
It worked. Libs and journos screamed "Boss Daley" - Chicago responded with thousands of letters of support for the Mayor and an overwhelming mandate when he next stood for election in 1971.
Yeah, and all Chicagoans who once had guns have turned 'em in... not!
Every Muslim I know is scared and fear American retribution otherwise know as vigilantism if their are any Muslim violence.
They want peace.
Anyway, if the American Government was in charge of France, day one would have been shoot to kill and curfew.
WACO X 1000 sO I think not for spreading to the US.
Chirac has ordered them not to shoot. (Chirac is a corrupt idiot). French police have a reputation for brutality.
Yeah but then as a polite society ya have to go pick up the road kill, dig a hole, etc etc etc ....just a pain the arse as ya well know. I just want em to be in pain for the rest of their little sad lives vs getting a get out of life free and clear ........:o)
Agree on the effectiveness of the .22 rimfire. We have been debating that on a few threads here of late.....
Stay Safe Bear !
French gun control is not all that strict.
Calling Michael Moore hey?
You got that right, I have kin there from the south, they sure as Hades didn't.
The pain I agree with, it is the thought of future crippled homocide bombers I don't relish.
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