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Rioting Begins to Slack Off in France
Associated Press via dailyinterlake ^ | Nov 09, 2005 | JOCELYN GECKER

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; insurgency; intifada; islamobrats; isurrender; jihad; jihadinparee; ouijad; parisriots; paristine; quagmire; slackers; surrender; terrorism; uprising
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To: dfwddr

Hell of a way to put out a fire.


41 posted on 11/09/2005 5:34:53 PM PST by rightwinggoth
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To: ncountylee

....Let them eat cake!


42 posted on 11/09/2005 5:35:58 PM PST by onyx eyes (.... we make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.)
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To: ncountylee
Running out of cars to burn? No more elderly or ill to terrorize? None of the broken windows yet replaced? Getting bored of night after night of bonfires? I know one thing, it doesn't seem to be France's too little too late how can we appease you stance.

Rioting may have slowed but what steps has France taken to catch and punish the perps? To put an end to it, rather than a reprieve or lessening? I still have a sad suspicion that they will somehow ask the US for help. And we'd better be ready with some stipulations.

43 posted on 11/09/2005 5:40:45 PM PST by fortunecookie
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To: ncountylee

I've begun to take a different view of this thing these mooslims are doing in France. They are actually serving all of humanity by burning all those piece of crap French cars. The more Renaults and Peugots that no longer exist, the better a place the world will be.


44 posted on 11/09/2005 5:41:40 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

You're right; assimilation is a two-way street. That's why the kind of multiculturalism that insists each ethnic group cling completely to its own identity and not conform in any way to the prevailing culture is a recipe for disaster.


45 posted on 11/09/2005 5:45:17 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: ncountylee

Put the deportees on a ship in Marseilles, sail it two miles out to sea and sink it. When asked about the pig-gravy slick, check the bill of lading and lament the unfortunate accident that put 1,000 muzzies on a ship filled with pork gravy.
Shame to lose all the pig gravy.


46 posted on 11/09/2005 6:40:19 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: frankjr
(Cool, I was able to use "too, to, two" within six words in that sentence)

Et tu, Frank?

47 posted on 11/09/2005 6:43:11 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: frankjr

2 mch bthr


48 posted on 11/09/2005 6:54:32 PM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: ncountylee

Today at lunch I had some delicious slow-roasted pork shoulder slathered in La Maille French Dijon-style mustard. I'm still trying to figure out all the different layers of flavor and irony.


49 posted on 11/09/2005 7:06:56 PM PST by Monti Cello
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To: ncountylee
The 12-day state of emergency went into effect at midnight Tuesday.

I have a feeling that this 12-day state of emergency can only lead to 13 days, 14 days, etc.

But seriously, the real story here is the abject failure of the Left vis-a-vis the socialist French state with its suicidal 12% unemployment and its inability to understand or respond to the radical Islamic threat.
50 posted on 11/09/2005 7:34:18 PM PST by etradervic (Able Danger, Peter Paul Campaign Fraud, Travelgate, Whitewater, Sandy Berger...demand answers!)
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To: etradervic

Are you kidding me? They think it's about two kids getting electrocuted, not a 1,400-year campaign to dominate the world.


51 posted on 11/09/2005 7:53:44 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: ncountylee

"Rioting begins to slack off in France."I guess that means the excitement is over.It was all just a big misunderstanding./sarc intended.


52 posted on 11/09/2005 10:28:59 PM PST by Thombo2
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To: frankjr; kpp_kpp
Or how about the story about the grisly murder by exposure to the elements of a prostitute in northern Alaska, or the whore hoar horror...
53 posted on 11/10/2005 11:48:13 AM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: jjmcgo
I said the real story.
54 posted on 11/10/2005 1:06:40 PM PST by etradervic (Able Danger, Peter Paul Campaign Fraud, Travelgate, Whitewater, Sandy Berger...demand answers!)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Exactly.


55 posted on 11/10/2005 5:25:08 PM PST by reaganbooster
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To: null and void; frankjr

It takes some real eyes to realize the real lies of the left.


56 posted on 11/10/2005 7:44:34 PM PST by kpp_kpp
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To: onyx eyes

My thoughts exactly


57 posted on 11/10/2005 9:45:31 PM PST by farmer_1
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To: kpp_kpp
It has tagline potential...
58 posted on 11/10/2005 9:49:58 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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