6 de noviembre de 2005, 04:27 PM Policías antimotines patrullan el distrito Le Mirail de Toulouse, al suroeste de Francia, el domingo 6 de noviembre de 2005. (FOTO AP/Remy Gabalda)
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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6 de noviembre de 2005, 04:27 PM Policías antimotines patrullan el distrito Le Mirail de Toulouse, al suroeste de Francia, el domingo 6 de noviembre de 2005. (FOTO AP/Remy Gabalda)
WWJCD (what would jimmy carter do)
Glad to hear it! Sometimes wonder about you guys in Ill., :)
Bumming class.
I agree. I am also out here in the middle of northeastern Oklahoma. I have a feeling the natives around here "won't take kindly" to that kind of stuff.
Most of us are armed and trained.
"funny, they were worried about mcdonalds signs"
says it all.
But I think this time the planet sorta has a clue to what the muslims are all about. I'm not sure it will make a difference now. Hell's is probably gonna break loose at a later date.
Remind you of anyplace? Like (French) New Orleans?
Because not working IS the French definition of "working!"
LOL!
All in all, I'd say it couldna happened to a nicer bunch!
(Is this what they mean by "schadenfreude?")
A) blame Israel
B) wait to be voted out of office by a 43 - 7 state margin.
C) drink lots of Billy Beer
D) A & B
E) all of the above
Completely agree. Cops are here to protect citizens, not to kill innocents. The comment was completely in poor taste.
Unlikely. On this side of the pond people who behave like that end up with fatal increases in body lead content.
Don't be so sure....there are enough Islamofascists here in America too.
You know, I don`t know french from spit. But I didn`t see a word resembling : gun , pistol , firearm etc.. anywhere in that jumbled up mix of french words in the caption on the bottom.
Didn`t see them holding any either........
I have enough firepower sitting 10 feet from me to scatter that ragged bunch. And I don`t think I would even need to fire a shot. Just my mean looks alone could send them back a few feet. ; [
I know nobody's gonna burn cars in my neighborhood, posse time!
Agreed. Look how mad the mean old muslims get when two dumbasses run to hide near a transformer and get electrocuted when the cops weren't even chasing them. These muslims are quite irritable, and the French know better than to upset our irascible friends by enforcing laws that they break.
Dumbasses. Or should I say, "Dumas"?
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