Posted on 11/09/2005 11:14:08 AM PST by 11th_VA
PARIS (Reuters) - French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered the expulsion of all foreigners convicted of involvement in two weeks of urban riots.
Sarkozy, who has previously thrown radical Muslim preachers out of the country for breaching French laws, told the National Assembly lower house of parliament on Wednesday that 122 foreigners had been convicted of playing a role in the unrest.
"I have asked prefects that foreigners here legally or illegally, who have been convicted (over the unrest) be expelled without delay from our territory," he said of the top government officials who oversee France's 96 administrative districts.
The order would also include those who have a residency permit, Sarkozy said.
"For when one has the honor of having a residency permit, the least one can say is that one shouldn't be going around getting arrested for provoking urban violence," he said.
Sarkozy did not give the nationalities of any of the foreigners whose expulsion he had ordered, and did not say how many would be expelled.
He has made a name for himself with tough law and order policies which have helped make him a frontrunner to lead the center right into a presidential elections in 2007.
But opponents, including within his own ruling Union for a Popular Majority, say his strong language over troublemakers in tough neighborhoods helped stoke the two-week-old wave of violence in poor suburbs around the country.
The latest opinion poll shows support for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, his bitter rival and another possible contender for 2007, has overtaken that for Sarkozy.
Excellent news. Send them back to the countries in which they were spawned.
Different group. French citizens are also rebelling. The foreigners will be sent away, the French citizens will have a different deal.
Why? do you think it is easier to cross the Mex/US border than to get by the airport scrutineers?
And all because France has troops in Iraq, giggle, snort.he he. Sarcasm off.
The damn fools just don't understand, like the demos in America. But let one of their cars be burned, a child killed by the knife and boy oh boy will you hear them screaming up a storm. Damn lemmings.
Put them in a boat, & when no one's looking, sink it.
What a religion ...that causes the world to treat you like pit bulls?
How in the hell will France deport those they can't catch. And if you catch, where do they think they can deport to and how. Fly them out and the plane will be shot down. Bus to where? By train? Nobody wants this insane crap. France will never learn. I just hope we do not become the same without border control.
They couldn't do that without overflying US airspace. I doubt flights from Paris to the US east coast would have enough fuel to go on to Mexico City.
Great analogy!
Many people are convinced that they're as harmless as any other breed except for a few bad apples, but you keep hearing about all the maulings!
France is going to find that its rioters are almost all native-born. What do they do then?
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