Posted on 11/08/2005 12:04:12 PM PST by NewMediaFan
PARIS (Reuters) - France is wounded and faces a moment of truth, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Tuesday, after his government approved the use of curfews to quell 12 nights of rioting.
The protests, blamed on racism and unemployment in rundown suburbs, receded in the Paris region after shots were fired at police the previous night but continued unabated in other parts of France in the early hours of Tuesday, with youths torching more than 1,000 vehicles overnight.
"The Republic faces a moment of truth ... France is wounded. It cannot recognise itself in its streets and devastated areas, in these outbursts of hatred and violence which destroy and kill," Villepin told the lower house of parliament.
"A return to order is the absolute priority. The government has shown this. It will take all the steps necessary to ensure the protection of our citizens and to restore calm ... We see these events as a warning and as an appeal."
Five cars were torched in Brussels in what officials say could have been copycat attacks, but the rioting did not spread across the border. Even so, fears of riots erupting in other countries helped push down the value of the euro.
Villepin's conservative government adopted a decree at an emergency session under a 1955 law that allows regional government officials known as prefects to impose curfews if they consider it necessary.
The decree was due to take effect at 11 p.m. British time, after the Interior Ministry decides where prefects can impose curfews not widely seen here since the Algerian war of 1954-1962.
Villepin said 1,500 police would be brought in to back up the 8,000 officers already deployed in areas hit by unrest involving poor white youths as well as French-born citizens of Arab ....
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"A return to order is the absolute priority. The government has shown this. It will take all the steps necessary to ensure the protection of our citizens and to restore calm ... We see these events as a warning and as an appeal."
ITS NOT AN APPEAL....ITS NOT A WARNING....BUT IT IS A DISTURBING STATEMENT OF TRUTH
The francostinians are taking over. They want policing of their hoods, they want sharia and autonomy. France is done, its over.
Iow, they're blaming the "protests" on themselves. They've accurately diagnosed the culprit, although they've severely misdiagnosed the cause. .....which isn't "racism" (as they allege) but the fact that they allowed millions of inassimilable Islamics to become French citizens in the first place.
There is a saying in French which goes.....
"We have dropped our trousers in front of the Arabs, Now they want us to provide the Vaseline".
Arabs are never satisfied, you give a house, they want the street, you give the street they want the city.
Kristopher.
What this fool fails to say is that the people DOING these things are not French. They are immigrants from the middle east, 3d world countries, etc. They might have had children born there, such as our illegals who swarm our borders and have children born here, thus are citizens. Same there I would assume. These are not "French" people. These are the slugs of the 3d world, where civilization has never been.
Villepin is blaming everybody but the culprits. Typical.
I heard these very words from a business colleague just this week.
Yes, the Paristinians have made their demands known and France should capitulate - after all, the French (and the rest of the EU)demanded that Israel give land to the Palestinians, therefore it only makes since that France should give land to the Paristinians - give them their own areas, let them have their own laws, give away the glorious French land to the scumbags you invited into your country yet you refuse to acknowledge it is an Islam problem. I hope they burn the entire country down - maybe some of the other EU nations would then get their act together and recognize this for what it is plain and simply - another outburst by the piece loving religion.....
Or maybe they could send over Noam Chomsky to 'think' about it?
One incited and encouraged by leftist activists and radical imams working together. There is little doubt that this was spurred on by Internet hate groups who want a populist revolution.
I see we had an anti-semitic troll by the name of dannonwater, he didn't last long! I didn't even get a chance to reply to his weird posts!!
Don't call them Muslim on DU, they will yank the post (seriously).
one of my fav french bashings - ebay item: french army rifle; never fired, dropped once.
Villepin always makes a nice speech.
The protests, blamed on racism and unemployment in rundown suburbs.
Typical liberal speak.
The real reason is the police dared to enter Muslim controlled areas.
The solution will be autonomous Muslim State within France. Mark my word.
Yes, and it may not be to difficult to achieve in France, when you consider the history of the country over the past two centuries!
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