29 cops injured in French riots

News 24 ^ | November 7, 2005

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Paris - Youths armed with shot pistols wounded 29 police officers on Sunday as rioting went into an 11th consecutive day in France, said police in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny.

Two of the officers struck by the pellets were said to be seriously wounded after police came under fire during clashes with groups of rioters in Grigny.

Sunday's new round of unrest broke out as President Jacques Chirac broke his silence on the crisis, telling journalists in Paris that the government's "absolute priority is the re-establishment of security and public order".

"The law should have the final word," Chirac said after an emergency meeting of the government's homeland security council.

In what were Chirac's first comments on the unrest, the French president said that he, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the seven ministers in the homeland security council had "taken a certain number of decisions to reinforce the actions of the police and courts".

"The republic is quite determined to be stronger than those who want to spread violence and fear," Chirac added.

Another outbreak of violence

Villepin said the government would speed up judicial proceedings against those who taking part in the riots, and security forces would be reinforced "wherever it is necessary throughout the country".

Even as the French leaders spoke, new violence had broken out.

Two people were injured on Sunday evening when a group of youths set fire to a bus in Saint Etienne, where bus service was immediately suspended citywide.

Police in Saint Etienne said an elementary school in a tense neighbourhood of the city was burned down on Sunday evening, while farther north, in a suburb of the city of Roanne, youths torched eight lorries in a car park.

Cars and trash bins were also burned on Sunday evening in the cities of Nantes, Orleans and Rennes as police and firefighters braced for another long night of violence and arson.

Rioters mostly minors

The new disturbances came after the unrest had spread on Saturday and Sunday across France, as gangs of youths attacked police and burned cars in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse and other cities.

The turmoil spread for the first time to central Paris where 51 cars were set on fire on Sunday. Police made 30 arrests in the capital.

Nationwide, 1 295 cars were torched overnight on Saturday, and police reported 349 arrests.

TF 1 television reported on Sunday that the rioters were predominantly minors, and that the average age of the nearly 500 people arrested over the preceding 24 hours was 16.

The chaos was set off by anger in France's immigrant community over the deaths of two teenagers as they were apparently evading police on October 27. They tried to hide inside a power transformer and were electrocuted.

A police investigation into the deaths is currently underway.

[genghis]

Is there even one freeper in France? Is there any opposition to chirac's total abducation of duty?
The muaraders only understand force- and it is not being demonstated.
They have been talking about this for 11 days and it was getting tiring a week ago, now it is just funny.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They don't even use the new R-134a Freon. Bummer.

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[Berlin_Freeper]

The whole angle of coverage from the media (little that there is) is total BS.

Don't buy into this load of crap about how the Muslim's are "angry because they have no jobs."

The truth is they don't really want jobs.

The real reason they are violent is because 9/11 got the Muslim's all pumped up on the notion that they are the supreme power to be reckoned with in this world, just like their so-called "Holy Book" the Koran teaches.

Add to that the law France passed banning headscarf's in schools and voting against the EU constitution, thereby effectively shutting out Muslim Turkey and what you have is 9/11 hyped up Muslims being put down rather than ascending, which is what they were ready for.

Now, they are all pissed off and acting violently because with the French they know they can get away with it and this BS excuse about jobs is their media cover that they are dishonestly promoting.

Once again the media refuses to put the proper perspective on what is happening because the left has no spine and is constantly looking to make the minority the victim no matter what.

You can give these barbaric beasts all the best job and you think that will make them happy? They would still be scheming and plotting and be even more dangerous with money.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I'll cover the bet -- that at least two Policemen will be killed before the rioting stops...

I contend that the body count is covered up. Not prudent to show socialism and racism for the abject failure that it is. Meanwhile, did you know that 3 more people out of 1.5 billion might have bird flu?

[Simmy2.5]

If they are, the message they are currently getting is, "KEEP GOING! WE'RE NOT STOPPING YOU!"

God help the French. If they still believe in God other then Allah.

[GeronL]

They haven't found the limits yet, thats for sure

[OldFriend]

We had a similar situation in NYC. The neighborhood of Crown Heights had a riot sparked by an auto accident in which a Hasidic Jewish driver struck and killed a small black child.

The rioting went on for days on the orders of the black Mayor Dinkins.

The Police Commissioner at the time was none other than the current Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly.

The blacks attacked any jewish people they came across and generally terrorized the entire area for days. It was the Mayor's contention that the blacks needed to 'vent'.

It was only Governor Cuomo's insistence that this be stopped that the police finally moved in.

[CheyennePress]

With all that is going on in Indonesia, Papua, France, Denmark, Nigeria, Egypt, the Sudan, Iran, the UK, and not too long ago in Spain, you think someone might clue into the fact that these all could be related and that maybe these French punks were not named Pierre, Andre, and Jean.

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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[Proud_USA_Republican]

The european and american MSM have for the most part, downplayed the riots and refuse to mention that its muslims rioting and the high level of cordination going on by the rioters.

Its a total coverup. The French press and government will supress the real stats.

Reporting of any act perp by a muslim involving violence against white people isn't allowed since its not politically correct.

I got a display of this on going trend last night. TNT was playing the movie Rules of Engagement. They heavily edited it and removed the most important plot scene in the movie where Samuel L Jackson looks over the edge of the embassy to see the crowd of muslim protestors firing weapons, including young children.
Leftist Ted Turner strikes again. Muslims acting as muslims is no longer allowed to be shown on tv. Its not politically correct since 9/11. We musn't dare offend Al-Queda.

[Nipplemancer]

send in the french foreign legion!

[joyce11111]

Bring Back the Crusades

[singfreedom]

This is the same idiotic way they edited Tom Clancy's book, "The Sum of All Fears" before they made it into a movie. In the film the bad guys were white, S. African, Nazis, not Muslim terrorists, who built an atomic bomb they set off at the Super Bowl in Denver.

[singfreedom]

Another thought: Isn't it strange that before 9/11, it was permissible to portray Muslim terrorists, but after 9/11 (and affirmation that they could attack us) it was no longer PC to portray Muslim terrorists as the "bad guys"!! Amazing, huh?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

ongoing political correct liberal hollyweird agenda since 9/11.

Pump out lots of anti-america movies. Muslims are not allowed to be shown as bad people, etc.... Its always the white christian people that are bad.

Kingdom of Heaven is a perfect example. The movie was like Osama Bin Laden's version of the crusades.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Not really considering how entrenched political correctness has become in our lives. It effects everything these days.

From our schools, to our media, to our politicians, to our socieity, everything as been effected.

You think they could make a movie like "Blazing Saddles" today and get away with it?

[pseudoscientologist]

Most of what I've read suggests that the MSM has actually overplayed the riots (along the lines of 'if it bleeds, it leads'). It's important to keep in mind that there has not been a single confirmed casualty at this point.

That said, newspapers have been somewhat reluctant to admit that almost all of the participants are young black Muslims (a lot of the stories I've read focus on poverty instead), and that at least some of the activities are being coordinated (as opposed to random acts of frustration).

[MikeHu]

President Bush should send special envoy John F. Kerry to France to straighten out that mess. If anybody understands the French, he's their man. I believe that they polled the French, and he won the election for President of the United States by a decisive margin. He will show Chirac how to talk nicely to those rioters. Obviously they are not doing enough to appease them.

[JoeSixPack1]

France needs Janet Reno!