[NYer]

A fireman wipes his eyes as he walks through the rubble of a movie studio in Asnieres-sur-Seine after an overnight fire on the 11th night of violence in suburbs surrounding Paris, November 7, 2005. French President Jacques Chirac vowed to restore order in France after riots in Paris spread across the country. REUTERS/Victor Tonelli

[NYer]

French police hold a position in a residential sector of Corberil-Essones, southern suburb of Paris. Riots in France's poor city suburbs appeared to be spiralling out of control after the worst night of violence so far and the first death, deepening the severest unrest to engulf the nation since the 1968 student uprisings.(AFP/Christophe Simon)

[theDentist]

1st Fatality? How about that poor wheelchair bound woman who was set afire? I thought she didn't survive that?

[Mo1]

I'm still amazed that the MSM is basically ignoring what is happening over there

It is out of control over there

[GOPologist]

That's not urban unrest---it's turban unrest.

[2banana]

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle, inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them, so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

[Always Right]

So the freedom fighters have finally killed one of the occupiers? Isn't that how the French would report it? The whole situation is horrible, but the strategy of appeasement never works.

[kentj]

This just in for the French suggestion Box:

Dear Jac, try a new long term strategy "War of Attrition" That is were you kill all the bad guys till there are none left - then you don't have to put up with there bull shit forever after.

Bonus material: Oil prices will be lower and you will have a friend across the big pond (again)

[RedCell]

I wonder if mother Sheehan will put a body count watch on this one. Somehow, I doubt it.

[The Red Zone]

I'm surprised that with all this fire being hurled about there hadn't been anybody thusly killed.

[finnman69]

France desperately needs a Rudolfe Guillaume to clean out the riff raff.


Then they still have a terminal immigration/racist/socialist sickness to deal with.

[LikeLight]

[ncountylee]

How many Ali's on the arrest list?

Publish the whole list and we might be able to figure who the Yutes are.

[no dems]

"Attacks overnight were reported in 274 towns..."

Wow, 274 towns, if they're not careful, this thing could get out of control.

(Tongue is now place in cheek.)

[Pikamax]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/french-riots-claim-first-life/2005/11/08/1131212012103.html?oneclick=true


A MAN beaten up during violence in a riot-hit suburb north of Paris died of his injuries yesterday.

Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, who was attacked on Friday evening and had been in a coma since then, was the first person to die as a result of the riots that began on October 27.

He was attacked as he talked with a neighbour in a public housing estate in the tough suburb of Stains.

His widow, speaking after meeting Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, said of the aggressor: "I want these people punished."

The Interior Minister, "whom I support with all my heart, has promised to do everything in his power to help us," she said.

[Danae]

Wonder how they are going to stop this?

[Sabramerican]

Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who inflamed passions by referring to troublemakers as "scum."

See it's not their fault. Their passions were inflamed.

They were simple troublemakers. Being called "scum" turned them into savages.

Lucky for France he only called them scum, a**holes would have gotten them really mad.

[giobruno]

Only one dead because the French are so intimidated that they are hiding under the bed. I recall the way the French would defer to the Muslim thugs when I was last there, the French acted as if they could seem invisible, then the Muslim gangs might go away and leave them be.

[Centurion2000]

Dear France,
You adopted this rifle. Fill it up with bullets, aim at rioters and pull the damned trigger.

Anything less is going to cause you to lose your country (again).

[giobruno]

Also, the French are having trouble here because so many of the leftists who were in the streets during the 68 riots are now in gov't and the media. They are nostalgic for the race to the barricades. We have the same idiots in this country. Want to see what the radical left would look like in a crisis? Here you go.

[Aquinasfan]

Those pesky "youths"! Why are they so grumpy lately?