Posted on 11/07/2005 2:44:49 AM PST by Dane
French police made 395 arrests last night as riots intensified for the 11th consecutive night, with violence and fire engulfing towns from the North to the Mediterranean.
In the impoverished suburbs and satellite towns around Paris, where the unrest began on October 27, churches, schools and warehouses were set alight. At least 1,408 vehicles were destroyed, many more than on previous nights, and the random attacks have spread into the heart of the city.
In Grigny, south of the capital, a gang of around 200 youths are reported to have lured police into a housing estate before opening fire with hunting rifles. At least 30 officers were injured, two seriously with lead pellets in the legs and neck.
Riots broke out in beacons of disaffection across the country from Lille, on the border with Belgium, to Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast. In Toulouse, police used tear gas to disperse a mob. Cars were set alight on the streets of Nantes, Orleans, Rennes and Rouen, and youths in St Etienne forced passengers off a bus before burning it. Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete.
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In Strasbourg, youths stole a car and rammed it into a housing project, setting the vehicle and the building on fire. "We’ll stop when Sarkozy steps down," the defiant 17-year-old driver told an Associated Press reporter.
Police are calling for a night-time curfew in affected areas and some senior officers have demanded that troops are brought on to the streets.
Michel Gaudin, France's most senior police officer, said today: "We are witnessing a sort of shock wave that is spreading across the country."
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You have to be careful of believing what you read in the papers...(although in fairness, this is inside a direct quote, but the headline isn't).
"In the past, when we have cracked down on these criminals in their homes, we found drugs, grenades and heavy weapons such as guns. While they haven't started using these arms yet, there's also no reason to think they wouldn't."
'Guns' (unless he is talking in terms of actual artillery, which I really, really doubt) means rifles, pitols and shotguns. None of these are 'heavy weapons' Words have meanings, and the press regularly butchers the meanings around firearms.
Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?
"Makes total sense if you think about it." [Not to shoot.]
It's like some spoiled brat you never disciplined when he was young. He gets more brazen and dangerous every year. At some point, you've GOT to bite the bullet and crack down. Make'em or Break'em. I'd tell the French, IT'S YOUR COUNTRY, DAMMIT!
This one stuck out.
"BB guns?"
It was a shotgun, from long distance.
"Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?"
Maybe Chirac threatened to boycott peanut butter if he did.
"It was a shotgun, from long distance."
Ah thank you. I was beginning to wonder. Buckshot, perhaps.
I have the solution to these riots. Import the Brit soccer hooligans, and German neonazi skin heads to come confront the mooligans. Arm the Brits and Germans with pipes, chains, broken bottles, etc; and fill em up with 10 or 15 pints before you set em loose.
It would be quite something.
Cops call that "pest control".
I believe its Che with Mickey Mouse ears. The blogger seems like a good guy if I'm not mistaken.
"Joblessness is the real cancer eating at France, and socialism does not cause it." [The quote in question.]
That's what socialists honestly believe. A truly communist country can create jobs for everyone. The only problem is, the lack of passion about their work, and the trouble they have feeding themselves.
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The unrest started in the poor Paris suburb of lichy-sous-Bois, after the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. The youths were accidentally electrocuted....
youthGee.....do you think they want us to think the rioters are youths?n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy)
rioter
n : troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority
And reacting so mindlessly to the tear gas in the Mosque?
Backhoe has coined a new moniker to replace MSM - ToM - Tired old Media.
It fits...
If France is unwilling to fight this cancer of Islam, it will die.
That would be the beginning of the end. You can mess with a lot of things in this world, but never mess with Disney.
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