France's Sarkozy orders deportation of non-French rioters

AFX ^ | 11/09/05 | AFX

[Pikamax]

France's Sarkozy orders deportation of non-French rioters 11.09.2005, 10:50 AM

PARIS (AFX) - Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy today issued orders for non-French rioters convicted in the wave of urban violence to be deported -- a measure directed at youths of Arab and African background living in the high-immigrant neighbourhoods involved in the unrest.

Sarkozy told prefects, or regional governors, to apply the order to foreigners including those who have valid French residency visas.

He told parliament that '120 foreigners, not all of whom are here illegally, have been convicted' of taking part in the nightly rampages that have occurred since October 27.

'I have asked the prefects to deport them from our national territory without delay, including those who have a residency visa,' he said.

Sarkozy's order followed a decision by the government to declare a state of emergency allowing prefects in certain regions to impose curfews and widen police search-and-seizure powers.

The tough city suburbs that have spawned the violence are predominantly home to immigrant families from France's former colonial interests in north and west Africa, including Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Tunisia.

Though most of the youths from there are French citizens, born and educated in the country, some are non-French, given residency papers to stay with family members.

[Ashamed Canadian]

Even if they're naturalized French citizens... send em all back

Not sure how feasable that is, they've got 5 million of them.

[Sans-Culotte]

I doubt the present-day French will follow Bonaparte's lead at Jaffa in 1799 during his Egyptian Campaign. When his men took the city, they captured several thousand prisoners, some of whom were rcognized as having fought in an earlier battle and released on parole. Not wanting to keep so many prisoners, and not wanting to have them return to fight another day, Bonaparte had them all executed.

[LikeLight]

Lest anyone wrongly conclude that the destruction in France is confined to cars, the following pictures and snippets were gleaned just from my own FR posts over the last few days, from dozens and dozens more available on various press websites...

The one below is inside a Kindergarten...

The one below is one from inside a police station after arson in Evreux...

And this last one is a school at Bruay sur Escaut, near Valenciennes...

Some other press reports...

Saint-Etienne: Arsonists destroy two schools and a bus on 6-7 November

Aulnay-sous-Bois: Shops set ablaze

Bordeaux: Employment agency office hit by a petrol bomb on 7-8 November

This night the Protestant church of Meulan (78) underwent a terrorist attack. The roof is completely devastated. I do not know if the interior is completely destroyed or not.

a gymnasium was set on fire in the Paris suburb of Noisy Le Grand, early November 6, 2005

Firefighters extinguished a fire at a kindergarden Sunday night in Lille. Youths fired at police and hurled flaming Molotov cocktails at churches, schools, cars and a daycare center in an 11th night of mayhem in France

A school was torched in Savigny-sur-Orge.

The Public Treasury in Trappes was targeted by an arson.

A police station was smashed by a vehicle in a suburb of Rouen.

A pre-school was torched in Saint-Etienne

In Grasse, the offices of the Nice-Matin newspaper suffered important damage after being targeted by arsonists.

In Arras, 2 large stores were looted and burned (But and St Maclou). Over 10,000 square meters were lost to the flames.

[oyez]

War is Hell. An expeditionary Army in those days didn't have many options when it comes to prisoners. They were too big of a liability.

[libertarianPA]

As long as they give it the ol' college try.

[Sans-Culotte]

I was not being critical of Bonaparte. He had been fighting several Islamic Pashas who would usually respond to French surrender demands by throwing the heads of the French emmisaries over the wall, so I am certain Bonaparte knew the type of enemy he was dealing with.

[TheCrusader]

"Non-French rioters" are Islamic terrorists. Deporting them is actually a soft punishment. If foreign muslims were burning down our cities who would be happy if we only deported them? I'm fine with it if France wants to deport them to say, the mountains of Pakistan in winter.

[seppel]

This is the real solution, but would be considered genocide and deportation. It's the only solution to the demographic factor.

[steveegg]

Don't these muslim idiots realize that they are attacking their number one ally in the struggle against the 'Great Satan'? Shouldn't that count for something? Don't they remember Chirac trying to block GW from clobbering Saddam? Could it be that no matter how much France tries to assuade them, that the muslims have their own agenda in regards to that shitty little country?

Well, since France was unsuccessful in allowing Saddam to get the Arab Bomb, the Islamokazis just going to take France's nukes.

[steveegg]

Speaking of Bonaparte, I wonder if Nicolas Sarkozy is really Corsican.