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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That pic came from El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper - sorry for the lingual confusion.
"...you do know that the people rioting in our country will be African Americans right? We have our version of islamofascists here -- only they listen to rap music and were ballcaps instead of turbans."
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Yep....and thanks to Katrina, right now a big chunk of the losers are scattered all over Texas where we were recently given the right to carry weapons wile traveling. - Don't Mess With Texas ~
I was born in San Antonio, so it is old hat to me. If it were French, I could have read that as well...
Your orginal point is still valid. No mention in the caption as to whether the anti-riot police were packing anyhting more deadly than a baton.
and that the MSM and our goverment will act in the same fashion as the frogs' right? MSM yes, our government NO. (the military would be called in long before the 11th day)
yes we have our version of islamofascists Actually we now have the islamofacists here in cognito without their turbans.
Wake up dude, big difference between looting (as in NO) and burning and killing across the entire country.
Are you ready?
Has anyone seen reporting that indicates there actually is any ideological or religious overtones? Or is it really fair to characterize the riots this way.
Well, with officers down, I hope the pansified socialist French government will now deploy the snipers. Lots and lots of snipers.
Some folks just need killing. Insurrectionists, collaborateurs, saboteurs, spies, personnel captured out of uniform, etc.
Just pick a position and a high-quality low-report rifle and exercise some lethal discretion.
Chirac is ready to SURRENDER, except he does not know who leading the rebellion!
"Quick, quick, point me to you leader so we can negotiate! I will give anything to put an end to this turmoil!"
Agree.... LOL ....."Class of 98".....:o)
Stay safe !
I'd like to add a thought I posted on another Freeper site discussing the situation in Paris. There is, in my view, a serious implication now that so much time has passed. Here goes (and monitors can tell me whether this is kosher or not):
Frenchie indecision and inaction are now, after 11 nights, sending all the wrong signals, globally. First, it is telling Al Quida that French suburbs are even more primed for more serious ventures than they ever suspected. Second, it is telling similar suburbs across Europe, already Denmark, I don't think Italy (because the Guidos won't put up with this), but soon in many other places, that they cannot expect significant EARLY retaliation. So they have some days grace to do pretty much whatever they want whenever they want.
Many have been noting, and correctly: If Bush acted in anything like this way, European elites and decision-makers would be all over him. The Dems, of course, would promote more striden welfarism as they simply say - as always - that whatever Bush is doing is wrong.
Even if Monday night is quiet, which I doubt, the messages above have been sent. Only a ferocious crackdown would begin to send a very different message, and we have alreadyh seen that Frenchie is hardly going to take this turn at any time.
Just squint yer eyes and think sod poodles with moltovs. Yep a high position on a balcony as ya describe with a supressed little plinker accurate enough to hit their knee and then the moltovs in their hands to let them feel the heat.......
I'm tired of this trash and I'm not even there.....if the "alledged" good ones here don't get a handle on the bad ones real quick then they all pay in a profiled solution. What else can a civilized nation do vs letting this trash just destroy, terrorize and disrupt with their anarchy.
They want to play medevil then show em medevil IMO........
Stay safe !!
Buy stock in Renault.
It's time for the Crusades once again. The West needs to destroy enough Muslims that they will not be a problem for hundreds of years.
The economy of France will only get worse now. I feel sorry for the people who have lost their cars. Most families in these areas only have one car. They won't be covered by insurance since this falls under the "riot ro insurrection" exemption.
The Left should soon embrace the rioters, and Islam as well. I mean, they are just like the Minutemen, right? They just want to throw off the oppressors of the working class, and the poor.
I can just see them all holding hands, swaying and singing, "All we are sayyy-ing----is give Islam a chance."
What would we do?
Just wondering because it may happen sooner than later here if France provides the morale boost to terrorism and/or Muslim extremists they're looking for in order to attempt their ultimate objective, America. Spain provided the first moral victory to our enemies. We are the core of western civilization and without us the world is doomed.
If they try it here, we will kick their a**es.
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