Posted on 11/08/2005 2:37:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PARIS - Paris prosecutors opened an inquiry Tuesday into two young bloggers who urged French youths to riot and revolt against the police, a judicial official said.
The youths, a 16-year-old French teen and an 18-year-old with Ghanian nationality, were detained Monday in the Paris region, said the official.
They were to be placed under investigation, a step short of formal charges, for inciting harm to people and property over the Internet, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because French law bars the disclosure of information from ongoing inquiries. Conviction on the charge could carry a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $52,800 fine.
The blog, called "hardcore," was run by the 18-year-old, and the younger teen posted comments on it, the official said. A 14-year-old was also questioned Monday in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence and was released.
During the rioting, bloggers have posted appeals for calm alongside insults targeting police, threats of more violence and warnings that the unrest will feed support for France's anti-immigration extreme right.
One of the blogs was called "sarkodead" — a reference to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who inflamed passions when he called troublemakers "scum." Both "sarkodead" and "hardcore" were hosted by Skyblog, a branch of the popular Skyrock radio station.
The blogs were taken off line this weekend, and the radio station cooperated with police, judicial officials said.
Some cleric today said it was against his religion (of pieces) not to declare jihads.
Rightly so, like shouting fire in a crowded theater - it's not protected speech when supporting violence and criminality.
I would hope that nobody would buy into the idea that a few truthful comments by a public official were justification of this type of violence. I'm tired of reading reports that this public official was to blame. Bull --it!
Yea, be offended and the keep-up the rioting "scum" until you turn France into the turd-world hell holes you came from. After you destroy everything valuable in France move on and ruin another country. This is the history of Islam for the last 1400 years.
I wish all Muslims were that honest.
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