Posted on 11/09/2005 3:14:28 PM PST by ncountylee
PARIS - The French Riviera cities of Nice and Cannes, best known for glitz and film festivals that attract Hollywood stars, were among areas that imposed curfews for minors Wednesday even as rioting abated.
The government toughened its stance against those involved in France's worst civil unrest since its 1968 student riots. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said local officials have been told to deport the 120 foreigners convicted so far for their roles in the violence.
Although rioting persisted in some places for a 13th night, car burnings fell by nearly half and reports of violence dropped. Nonetheless, looters and vandals defied a state of emergency imposed by the government Tuesday, with attacks on superstores in northern France and a newspaper warehouse and a subway station in the south.
New arson attacks broke out Wednesday evening in the southern city of Toulouse, which was hit earlier this week. Vandals set four cars ablaze and rammed a burning car into a primary school, damaging its entrance, the local government said.
The 12-day state of emergency went into effect at midnight Tuesday. For much of France _ including Paris _ it had no perceptible effect. That such extraordinary measures were needed, however, has fueled national introspection about the country's failure to integrate its African and Muslim minorities _ seen as a key reason behind the rioting.
The decree paved the way for possible curfews in Paris, the surrounding communities, and more than 30 other cities and towns nationwide if officials feel they are needed. By Wednesday evening, only a few municipalities and regions imposed them; Paris had not.
In Nice, Cannes and 19 other towns in the Riviera region known as Alpes-Maritimes, including the resort of Antibes, minors are forbidden from being outdoors between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyinterlake.com ...
First mention I've seen of looters. Are they trying to keep this under wraps, so as not to appear similar to NO ??
damn
Maybe if they had curfews after the first night, there would be 4,000 less burned out cars.
Nothing left to burn.
"I have asked regional prefects to expel foreigners who were convicted whether they have proper residency papers or not without delay," he said.
The American Civil Liberties Union would go bezerk if we did that that here.
They're starting to miss their TV shows.
They are reloading their Bics
brr, bys, cry, cwm, dry, fly, fry, gym, gyp, hmm, hyp, nth, pht, ply, pry, pyx, shh, shy, sky, sly, spy, sty, syn, thy, try, tsk, why, wry, wyn
Not bad!
For extra points a 5 letter word with 'w' as a vowel...
ok, ok. i cheated here which also lists phpht as a valid 5 letter vowelless word, but i haven't been able to track down a defintion yet.
That's the one! Now for the super bonus round, three words with 'uu'...
PHPHT intj. expressing mild anger or annoyance (pht)
Since when is it totally the government's responsibility to integrate immigrants, and not the immigrants responsibility to integrate themselves into society?
w/o cheating i've got vacuum and continuum... hmm... pht... tsk on me.
White ensign
![[Plain white ensign]](../images/f/fr%7Emr1.gif)
by Pierre Gay [ I had to put a non-existant border around it to make it show up... AFPhys ]
This flag is shown on Danckert's flag chart [ca.1700] [dan05], as #82, labelled 'Franse Witte Vlag' - French white flag.
... Anyway, Dauphin Charles had to find an emblem of his own. In 1422, when Charles VI died, he became Charles VII, adopted a white cross as emblem and a white flag as banner. Joan of Arc's famous banner was white with religious figures embroidered on it. Thereafter the three parties to the civil wars of 1420-36 are distinguished by the cross: white for the French, red for the English and red saltire for the Burgundians.
The white flag itself was the flag of commanding officers, such as colonel generals, and later colonels. In particular, it was the flag of the kKing when he was with the troops. ......
French [flag with fleur-de-lis shown here. The fleur-de-lis were optional]
Perhaps this all 'splains itself...
No wonder the frogs have such trouble with this stuff... It's buried more deeply in their psyches than I realized.
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