HERE'S....... MUHAMMED!
Posted on 11/07/2005 8:37:20 AM PST by HHKrepublican_2
PARIS - Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight, and a 61-year-old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday. ADVERTISEMENT
As urban unrest spread to neighboring Belgium and possibly Germany, the French government faced growing criticism for its inability to stop the violence, despite massive police deployment and continued calls for calm.
Meanwhile, governments worldwide urged their citizens to be careful in France.
On Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured, setting a new high for overnight arson and violence since rioting started last month, national police chief Michel Gaudin told a news conference.
Australia, Britain, Germany and Japan advised their citizens to exercise care in France, joining the United States, Russia and at least a half dozen other countries in warning tourists to stay away from violence-hit areas.
The victim was identified as Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, a retired auto industry worker who died after being beaten by an attacker. He was trying to extinguish a trash can fire Friday at his housing project in the northeastern suburb of Stains when an attacker caught him by surprise and beat him into a coma, police said.
Apparent copycat attacks spread outside France for the first time, with five cars torched outside Brussels' main train station, police in the Belgian capital said.
The mayhem started as an outburst of anger in suburban Paris housing projects and has fanned out nationwide among disaffected youths, mostly of Muslim or African origin, to become France's worst civil unrest in more than a decade.
Attacks overnight Sunday to Monday were reported in 274 towns, and police made 395 arrests, Gaudin said.
"This spread, with a sort of shock wave spreading across the country, shows up in the number of towns affected," Gaudin said, noting that the violence appeared to be sliding away from its flash point in the Parisian suburbs and worsening elsewhere.
It was the first time police had been injured by weapons' fire and there were signs that rioters were deliberately seeking out clashes with police, officials said.
Among the injured police, 10 were hurt by youths firing fine-grain birdshot in a late-night clash in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said. Two were hospitalized, but the injuries were not considered life-threatening. One was wounded in the neck, the other in the legs.
The unrest began Oct. 27 in the low-income Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois after the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. The youths were accidentally electrocuted as they hid from police in a power substation. They apparently thought they were being chased.
About 4,700 cars have been burned in France since the rioting began and 1,200 suspects were detained at least temporarily, Gaudin said.
The growing violence is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair — fertile terrain for crime of all sorts as well as for Muslim extremists offering frustrated youths a way out.
France, with 5 million Muslims, has the largest Islamic population in Western Europe.
President Jacques Chirac, whose government is under intense pressure to halt the violence, promised stern punishment for those behind the attacks, making his first public comments Sunday since the riots started.
"The law must have the last word," Chirac said after a security meeting with top ministers. France is determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear, and they will be arrested, judged and punished."
France's biggest Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Union for Islamic Organizations of France, issued a fatwa, or religious decree, that forbade all those "who seek divine grace from taking part in any action that blindly strikes private or public property or can harm others."
Arsonists burned two schools and a bus in the central city of Saint-Etienne and its suburbs, and two people were injured in the bus attack. Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete, he said.
In Colombes in suburban Paris, youths pelted a bus with rocks, sending a 13-month-old child to the hospital with a head injury, Hamon said, while a daycare center was burned in Saint-Maurice, another Paris suburb.
Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions.
Or a widening front?
'Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions'
Ah, he hurt their widdle feelings did he. A load of buck shot delivered at close range is really what is in order for these t-rds.
I always thought they'd need to be a bigger minority than they are before beginning the Euarabian Intafada.
Perhaps something happened to inflame Minister Sarkozy's passion, no?
On the other hand, a dead rioter burns no churches...
Euroweenies unite for whirled peas !!!
"I fell in to a burning ring o fire, I went down, down, down, and the flames getting hire...LMAO."
The French: "We surrender!"
But the Israelis have not lost the will to live like the Euros.
Perhaps the new generation will recover that will to live. They'd better do it quickly, however... they don't have much time left.
Jeff Cooper has an excellent essay on the use of 22lr in riot control in his book: To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth.
Is that the kind of law similar to a UN declaration?
...yeah, with one press of a button!
Notice the MSM being good dhimmis and covering their masters by saying a man "hurt in the violence." The man was beaten by Muslims and later died. "hurt in the violence" implies a much less severe situation. No doubt that they would say "man was severely beaten by the gang of (insert non-PC group here) and later died of his extensive injuries" if races/religions were changed. But there is no bias in the media
..... struggling with high unemployment,racial discrimination and despair-fertile terrain for crime of all sorts.....
I have carefully noted in both the print media and on T/V what seems to be an unwritten conspiracy. Nowhere have I seen any invective against these terrorist thugs. Now it might be argued that it is not the job of the press. Yet, when police over react under stress against criminals, how the press does lay on the outrage.
Better still, have a few surly skin heads, calling themselves some ridiculous out dated name and the press has a fit.
The clue is in the words "media spin". A rough definition is that it is the use of words to present one's own bias or slant. Better still and also, can be words NOT used. Like an Orwellian nightmare the key words are stamped home by this media monolith. Racial discrimination, poverty, despair, youths, anger. My sad conclusion is that the press have successfully staged managed this news.
A well armed and determined citizenry could stop this chaos dead. Instead, the disarmed and confused French are cowering in their homes, hoping that the ineffectual and overstretched police will take care of this.
I'd be outside guarding my vehicle- and property- , as would any other honest individual, and I'd be prepared to use force to do it.
There may be an upside to all this. It may wake the French up to the fact that their beloved nanny-state is really a hollow shell which will never take care of their every need.
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