10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities

NYTIMES ^ | 11/07/05 | CRAIG S. SMITH

[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."

[RegulatorCountry]

"Not likely."

Mostly true, but I'm not so sure about Detroit.

[digger48]

sounds good to me!

[1066AD]

Mr. Villepin, a former foreign minister, has focused on a more diplomatic approach, consulting widely with community leaders and young second-generation immigrants to come up with a promised "action plan" that he said would address frustrations in the underprivileged neighborhoods. He has released no details of the plan.

John Kerry, please pick up the white courtesy phone..

[proxy_user]

I would not call them cowards, or ineffective fighters.

They know how to have commandos sweep the streets with automatic weapons.....in African countries.

But they prefer not to on their home soil. That would shatter their illusions.

[HangnJudge]

Taking of the Bastille




Islam has no respect for any belief but it's own
Islam has no respect for any writings but those derived from Mohammad
Islam will kill those who renounce Mohammad
Their world view is frozen into the 7th century

Identify those who propagate hate speech in Islam
Arrest, Deport, or Imprison
Do not reinforce or reward violent behavior, ever

[CommandoFrank]

This could spread across the pond

I'm ready, are you?

[The Worthless Miracle]

As if the rioters are the type of people who would go hold down a job. Today: I'm burning a store to the ground - Tomorrow: I'm an accountant. Gimme a break

[indcons]

"Riots Worsen in French Cities"

Must-resist-urge-to-laugh-and-celebrate.

[Carling]

Chirac finally speaks out on this days after it begins.

He's a hero to the American left on Iraq, yet instead of taking decisive action or even pulling the usual liberal 'empathy' rhetoric card in these riots he hides until he realizes this isn't just going to go away. Then, he talks tough while his police are being used for target practice.

He is a COWARD.

[JHBowden]

"Chicago don't allow no guns."

Well, theory and practice are two different things. Besides, the Chicago PD would eat Muslim rioters for breakfast. Take my word for it.

[roses of sharon]

Do not resist, you must not resist, you cannot resist!

[Jaysin]

I think working-class is a another name for a slum!

[rightwinggoth]

Whatever that plan is be assured that it won't be to OUTSOURCE THE JOB TO AFGHAN WARLORDS.

[indcons]

Most Frenchmen are COWARDS.....

[digger48]

see post 15

[Peace will be here soon]

"10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities"

I think the french government is holding back from using real bullets because if they start killing muslims in their streets, they know they will then become the enemy of islamist around the world.

The fact that they are already doesn`t matter, the french just haven`t figured it out yet.

[Crazieman]

While the arson is more common than in the past, it has become a feature of life in the working-class suburbs, peopled primarily by North African and West African immigrants and their French-born children. Unemployment in the neighborhoods is double and sometimes triple the 10 percent national average, while incomes are about 40 percent lower.

[Mr_Moonlight]

"The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear," Mr. Chirac said

... added Mr Chirac: "And this time I mean it!! Really, I mean it this time !"

[Mr. Mojo]

This could spread across the pond

If it did, I'd have countless new stories to put on my armed citizen pinglist.