Tentative d'incendier une mosquée à Annemasse en France (Smoke damage to front of French mosque)

France-Echos ^ | November 8, 2005

[NYer]

Dans la nuit de lundi à mardi un engin incendiaire a été lancé "en direction d'une salle de prière" musulmane à Annemasse (Haute-Savoie), sans faire de dégâts, indique un communiqué de la préfecture à Annecy.

Selon l'AFP, l'incident s'est produit vers 0h20 mardi. La façade de cette mosquée, située dans un quartier sensible, a été légèrement noircie par la fumée. Selon le communiqué, le préfet de Haute-Savoie a fait part au président de l'association NOUR, qui s'occupe du lieu de culte, "de sa ferme condamnation de l'acte qui a frappé la mosquée, de sa considération pour les fidèles de cette salle de prière, et du soutien des services de l'Etat". A Annemasse, ville frontalière avec Genève, 3 voitures ont été incendiées dans la nuit. Pour l'ensemble du département de Haute-Savoie, 16 véhicules ont été détruits par le feu.

[absalom01]

LOL!

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

It sounds like there wasn't enough damage done to the mosque for it to be an attempt to retaliate. The Muslims did it themselves.

Michael Frazier

[RightOnline]

.....and so it truly begins.

[Farmer Dean]

Would anyone want to guess how big the blast zone from the average mosque would be?Any guess on how much hardware they have smuggled into the building?

[coconutt2000]

If our suspicions are correct, the next step will be for the jihadists to try and provoke the French authorities into firing into a (mostly) unarmed crowd.

This will likely be achieved using blanks or firecrackers, or even a real firearm from a hidden position, or most likely a combination of both noisemakers and a real firearm.

[Luke21]

Anybody ever heard of the Reichstag fire in 1933? Hitler's minions set it themselves and even planted a slow witted Dutch communist inside for the police to find as a foil.

Hitler used the fire as a pretext for taking all remaining civil liberties in Germany.

[rodguy911]

LIke minds Gary, Islamo dirt bags.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Anybody ever heard of the Reichstag fire in 1933?"

Heard it again and again and again, from deranged Dims claiming that WTC was Bush's Reichstag fire.

[Congressman Billybob]

No discussion of whether this was a "work-place" accident, that Muslims who were assembling Molotov cocktails made the mistake of smoking too close to their work benches in the mosque. That happens a lot among the Palestinians.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Lord of the Fires (French Riots, Day 13"

[kalee]

"The facade of the Mosque, in a good area of town, was lightly damaged by smoke."

I have a feeling the moslem rioters did this themselves. Only superficial damage, says to me it was done to try to point criticism away from moslems.
They do a MUCH more thorough job when it's churches or synagogues.

[GVnana]

located in a sensitive district

Sounds pornographic. Gotta love Babelfish!

[Congressman Billybob]

"On the Sunni side of the street"? You're bad, really BAD.

John / Billybob

[null and void]

I'm guessing major structural damage for about 100 m or so, broken windows out to about half a km, with UXO scattered for 200 m.

[ApplegateRanch]

Oh, please, God, NO! This is a disaster; one of the worst things that could have happened.

Now the government will be forced to send in troops...





...to protect the "peacefully rioting demonstrators" from the "blood thirsty Islamophobic mobs".

[montag813]

If the French had any backbone, every mosque in France would be burning, lighting up the nation like a big birthday cake.

[Sidebar Moderator]

This thread was pulled "under review" because the title was incorrectly translated, and the source went to a French forum where there was no link found to any news source which could verify the story.

Searches on LeMonde and Agence France Presse revealed no such story.

No similar story was found from searches on Google, MSN and Yahoo.

Here is the latest from Agence France Presse:

Riots seen fading under French curfew threat

08/11/2005 23h40

Policemen stand guard at the entrance of "Le Mirail," a neighbourhood of Toulouse
©AFP - Lionel Bonaventure

PARIS (AFP) - Nightly violence flared in riot-hit parts of France but the threat of emergency curfews appeared to have taken the edge off the urban unrest that has gripped the country for almost two weeks.

The French government earlier declared a state of emergency in the worst-hit parts of the country, which will allow regional authorities to declare curfews to combat the worst unrest since the May 1968 student revolt.

The measure will be applicable from Wednesday following the publication of the decree in the government's official gazette. The government's spokesman had earlier said it would come into effect midnight (2300 GMT) Tuesday.

The town of Amiens north of Paris was the first to act under the new powers, declaring an overnight curfew for unaccompanied under 16-year-olds and a ban on petrol sales to minors, even before the decree came into effect.

Mayors have already declared local curfews, not covered by the emergency decree, in Orleans and Savigny-sur-Orge, both south of Paris, and in Raincy, northeast of the capital, where the trouble first erupted late last month.

The ritual of car-burnings and vandalism that has engulfed poor city suburbs for the past 12 days picked up again on Tuesday, but with fewer incidents than on previous nights.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that police had reported a "fairly significant fall" in the number of violent incidents nationwide at around 10:00 pm (2100 GMT).

Speaking in the southwestern city of Toulouse, which became a flashpoint of violence in recent days, Sarkozy said 184 cars had been burned in the Paris region and provinces combined, down from 272 on Monday night.

Clashes broke out earlier on the outskirts of Toulouse, when police charged a gang of youths who attacked them with stones and firebombs.

In the Bordeaux suburbs, also in the southwest, a gas-powered bus exploded after it came under attack with a Molotov cocktail.

Policemen stand guard to confront possible acts of violence, in "Le grand Vaux"
©AFP - Christophe Simon

In southeastern France, the entire public transport network was closed down in the city of Lyon after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a train station.

And around 50 youths tried, unsuccessfully, to ram their way into a supermarket in the Mediterranean city of Marseille.

In the northeast Paris suburbs where the violence began, the situation was relatively calm, with isolated cases of arson and a dozen arrests, police said.

The government's emergency measure was the toughest response to date to rioting in high-immigration suburbs which has left more than 6,000 cars burned, dozens of policemen injured and one civilian dead.

It invoked a 1955 law enacted at the start of troubles in French-controlled Algeria that triggered the six year war of independence and permits the declaration of curfews, house searches and bans on public meetings.

Several molotov cocktails burning in "Le Mirail," a neighbourhood of Toulouse, France, after a clash
©AFP - Lionel Bonaventure

The government's firm line appeared to have won broad public support, with 73 percent of French people backing the curfew decision, according to a poll for Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui to be released Wednesday.

But some have criticised it for resorting to a measure that recalls one of the worst moments in the country's modern history and has painful associations for Algerians, the original law's main targets.

More than 1,500 people -- mainly Arab and black youngsters -- have been detained in the violence and 106 people handed firm jail sentences.

The crisis has thrown into stark relief the failure of French policies for integrating millions of immigrants and their children from its former colonies.

French Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy (C) speaks with policemen
©AFP - Lionel Bonaventure

Acknowledging the hardships faced by many in the Arab community, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced a series of measures to ease access to the job market and stamp out racial discrimination.

Among these are creation of an anti-discrimination agency, the allocation of 20,000 state-paid jobs for inhabitants of poor suburbs, an extra 100 million euros (120 million dollars) for associations working there, and the creation of 15 new special economic zones with tax-breaks for employers.

The violence, sparked by the accidental deaths of two teenagers on October 27 who were electrocuted in a sub-station where they had hidden from police, spread first across the Paris area and to the rest of the country.

Agence France Presse : Riots Seen Fading

[redgolum]

How many churches torched?

[Aquinasfan]

I have a suspicion that the French didn't set this fire. It feels too much like the tactics used by jihadists to garner support and sympathy for their side.

Either that, or it was unintended collateral damage.

"The facade of the Mosque, in a good area of town, was lightly damaged by smoke."

[wolfcreek]

If they used a water cannon, they could just wash the Mosque (and the rioters) clean.

[Piquaboy]

They should let them burn the Mosgue's down if they want. Wonder how long it will be before they ask the US for help?