Posted on 11/07/2005 3:18:31 AM PST by CarrotAndStick
LONDON/PARIS: In the first disturbing assertion that a European country and its capital can be brought to a halt by the massed forces of Islamist militants both within and outside its borders, French police warned there was evidence they had played a role in inciting vandals, albeit "not on the front lines."
With the tough-talking interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy warning of stiff jail sentences for the rioters, there were signs the French capital was a city under siege.
With night buses in and to some of the more remote suburbs cancelled to prevent rioters using them as soft targets, police helicopters patrolled the skies over the capital.
Sikh community leaders, who make up a small but newly-vocal and highly-visible religious minority in France, told TOI they had so far stayed away from the ongoing troubles. But they admitted the authorities' red alert on potentially troublesome immigrant youths might bring the focus closer to South Asian communities as well.
Meanwhile, Yves Bot, Paris chief prosecutor, said the hit-and-run arson attacks were an insidious "form of action that is organised. It responds to a strategy. It's done by mobile units of youths or older guys because they are masked who arrive on scooters, throw a burning bottle at a vehicle and leave."
He said it was "irrefutable" that these "are organised gangs because it's done in a way that gives every sign of coordination. In fact, one can read blogs on certain websites inciting other cities to join the movement of the Parisian region."
In what many commentators believe is the deadly downside of the 'information revolution', Paris police intelligence sources said they feared the Internet was triggering a domino effect across the country.
Meanwhile, Racial unrest spread to the gilded heart of the French capital on Sunday as the 10th night of rioting continued to leave a charred trail of burnt cars and smoky ruins in Paris and provincial towns.
The continued rioting saw violence erupt around one of the grandest symbolic, touristy images of France in central Paris, the Arc de Triomphe, and to yet another region, Normandy. It is thought to have significantly moved up a gear because it came just hours after religious and community leaders conducted a peace march through some of the capital’s worst-hit suburbs.
Police also found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of Paris, with more than 100 bottles, litres of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters’ faces, a senior justice ministry official said on Sunday.
The French authorities on said that the rioting, inexorably spreading across the country, seemed increasingly well-organised and appeared to be coordinated on the Internet by bands of disaffected technophile youths looking to have a "punch up" with police.
On Sunday, with the riot damage rising to its highest levels in 10 nights, police said 1,295 vehicles had been torched and 312 arrests made over the weekend.
On Saturday night, anxious Parisians reported that several of the fires in Paris, particularly around its key train station, the Gare du Nord, began with the lobbing of a Molotov cocktail.
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Saout=South
Must've bumped the wrong key. Proof-reading is my friend.....
Either that, or declare the Manson Family as a religion, and import the Amazonian Jivaro headhunter/cannibal tribe.
Level the playing field and provide for competition for mass murdering savages! You know,.... Capitalism!!!!!
I say we get the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution condemning the riots and imposing econominc sanctions on the rioters. Then we can send in teams of inspectors to find out whether or not there really are any Muslims in the affected regions. Meanwhile, the U.N. can pass more and more resolutions demanding the rioters stop what they're doing and play nice-nice. The rioters call sell French wine under a U.N. sponsored Wine-For-Food program.
It should only take about ten years or so, but it will work, trust me. France can prove to the world their Iraq strategy was correct fromt he beginning.
Now that the car-burning has spread from France to other countries, we have International Mooliganism.
That would be easy to accomplish in Europe, since so many of the elderly died from the heat a few years ago.
...litres of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters’ faces...
I like the hoods part. This makes the job so much easier. You wear a hood, you're a target. You find a bullet ridden body wearing a hood, no sympathy...
Chainsaw, don't be fooled by the media. This is a french link, once again the internet beats the MSM:
http://www.chretiente.net/breve.php3?id_breve=1156
It says:
«The sentence is so short that it has good chances to pass unnoticed. And all the french media to the 'orders' (of whom you know, my note) hopes that it would:
"Two churches were targetted by incendiary cocktails, at Lens (Pas-de-Calais) and at Sète (Hérault), declared Patrick Hamon of the DGPN (General Directorate of the National Police)"
Nothing to do with a tear gaz grenade in a mosque, this time....it is throwing incendiary cocktails.
The more things get tough, the less french medias report the facts. Till When?»
So, the french people are getting it! it is Mr. Chirac that do not want to get it, yet. After all, he owes a large part of his presidential campaign to Saudi money through the late Hariri.
Masked terrorists throwing molotov cocktails from motor scooters..... thousands of cars torched....... police should be authorized to shoot such scumbags on sight........ but that would get a lot of Euro-panties all twisted up.
Seems an obvious bit of ammunition for those arguing that the UN should grab the Internet...maybe all the cell phones and text messaging companies as well, since those have also been used.
All part of the UN's desire to be a fully realized totalitarian regime...just what we need, an incompetent totalitarian ruler.
Or any totalitarian ruler.
Hang on to your guns and ammo and practice regularly. ;)
LOL...Good point...I stand corrected, we don't need any sort AND the UN is incompetent.
"The continued rioting saw violence erupt around one of the grandest symbolic, touristy images of France in central Paris, the Arc de Triomphe..."
This is the first I've read of this. Does anyone have more information? Yikes!
So if this is all being driven by poverty, exactly where are these "youths" getting the money for internet/text messaging services, motor scooters, gasoline for the bombs, etc.???
No problem...it made me consider my comment in the light of which was worse, an incompetent totalitarian government or an effective one...I think I'd rather then incompetent one :P
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