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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Hey, if it worked the first time........
And to think the frogs had "Degaulle" to ridicule the US response to Katrina. As one news wag put it: "this is France's Katrina of social problems."
An appeal? To whom and for what?
Près de la moitié des jeunes déférés devant les tribunaux pour les violences dans les banlieues sont des mineurs, mais la justice est bien en peine, pour l'instant, de dresser le portrait type de ces émeutiers en herbe. • Franck Perry (AFP/AFP - mardi 8 novembre 2005, 18h51)
May I elaborate on your equation?
I have some background in both Math and French.
It might help to know how your equation was derived.
Here's how:
truth = le oxy
Villepin = le moron
Therefore,
truth + Villepin = le oxymoron
ROTFL!!
And so true!
No doubt, it was selected to portay just that.
I see only one that mentions them, although I see a few that have been yanked.
Here is the only one I saw that mentioned them (and my guess it will get yanked soon):
WinkyDink (459 posts) Mon Nov-07-05 05:28 PM
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28. I have read that the Muslim community does not seek to learn
any of the languages of the nations to which they emigrate, from Morocco, Algeria, Indonesia, Suriname, etc. That they want to have sharia rather than the laws of their new land. IOW, assimilation ain't their bag.
I bet you can't say that five times, real fast. :o)
8 of every 10 prisoners currently in french jails are muslims. I've heard they are soo overloaded, they only jail the most heinous of crimes. The rest are always set free.
I've been scouring the net for perp images to post on FR for almost a week now - I'll have to go back and recheck my posts, but let's just say this group of fellows is definitely more "diverse" than most of what I've seen so far.
for starving broke immigrants, they sure have stylish clothes.
I totally agree; I've seen quite a few pics, and have posted several, where they do NOT resemble the fairer skin seen on your pic posted here. I also saw a video where the picture showed an African-looking man, perhaps in his 30's, along with another man, perhaps more Arab looking....no younger than 20's. It's not a bunch of teens; it's not mostly poor whites....IT'S MOSTLY MUSLIMS/ARABS
Doesn't Arafat's "widow" live in France with all of his ill-gotten (some of it our) money? How does she feel about intifada now, when she sees it out HER window?? Does she want to share some of her dough with the "youths" who killed that guy and who injured the baby?
I liked the comment about the "Arab street finally exploding. Who knew it was in Paris"
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