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.

[skimask]

"send in the french foreign legion!"


March or die

[Northern Alliance]

I wondered when a few days ago I saw a report of 'pellet guns'. Now I think these are what we used to call 'zip guns'; single shot, home made, 12 ga shotshell pistols. They are very common here in Thailand with petty criminals and petty drug dealers. (Real gangsters use .45 Colt Gov't knockoffs, M16s and grenades!)

Two policemen so far 'seriously wounded' from these and there will be more as they can be loaded with anything up to slugs. Of course that would probably be the last shot the shooter would shoot for a long time or possibly ever, but could still be lethal to whoever was the target.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Get a clue - if anything the MSM is playing the riots DOWN!!

[GVnana]

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

You're right. The "injustices" are just a cover. Give them money and they'll just hate you because they know they don't deserve it and you're weak.

[Southack]

"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."

No, that's incorrect. There were 29 French police shot last night, confirmed, which means 29 or more casualties.

Your teachers probably didn't tell you about anything "military" related, but the word "casualty" means wounded or killed.

Your liberal teachers typically misuse the word "casualty" deliberately to sway gullible audiences into incorrectly thinking "fatalities" instead of the correct phrase "wounded or killed."

Now, after getting past that first error, consider how the news media would report Baghdad if 1400 cars were torched and 29 policemen shot overnight?!

[From many - one.]

Yo're forgetting something.

They don't have jobs.

But they do have enough money to eat.

If they didn't, they'd have no time to riot.

[VRWCmember]

Most of what I've read suggests that the MSM has actually overplayed the riots

Yeah, when they wait until the 10th or 11th day of rioting to even mention it, that sounds like overplaying it to me.

[Lady Heron]

You singed up today to back the MSM?????

You are one of two things....1)New to the Internet, so you have not been aware of how news is manipulated everyday,2) you have an agenda.

I wonder how long you will last on this site???

[El Gato]

Bring Back the Crusades

The History Channel is doing just that. The Christians are the Bad Guys in the story... mostly anyway. The emphasis was on the "ulterior motives" of the Christian Princes.

OTOH, in fairness to the HC they did show what led up to the Crusades, just not in the Crusades program. (Muzzies cut off access to the Holy Land, just as they cut off access to Jerusalem to the Jews in more recent times.)

They also showed "The Siege", which is very sympathetic to the Muslim Terrorists (Palies in that case) , with the only "Bad Guy" being the American General played by Bruce Willis.

[El Gato]

Now, after getting past that first error, consider how the news media would report Baghdad if 1400 cars were torched and 29 policemen shot overnight?!

It's a quagmire! The French need an Exit Strategy and a Pullout Timetable.

When do they mount the "call to prayer" speakers on the Eiffel Tower?

[joyce11111]

I watched it too, and, the Christians were the bad guys.
Different than what I learned in Grade School.

[jb6]

Tell that to the 60 year old man who had his head openned with an axe. To the old handicapped woman covered in fuel and set on fire. To the 13 month baby hit in the head. Yeah, no casualties...tell that to the two cops in critical.

[little jeremiah]

On one thread I read that a photographer was murdered next to his car in front of his wife and child. I haven't see that since.

It is hard to imagine that 12 - is it 12? - nights of rioting and unfathomable arson, and practically no injuries. Could be, but who can trust the media at this point?