Posted on 11/11/2005 6:07:46 AM PST by ncountylee
PARIS - Police tightened security in central Paris as exasperated residents of riot-torn suburbs prepared to march Friday near the Eiffel Tower to call for an end to more than two weeks of car burnings and vandalism across France.
As the unrest continued to decline, civic groups timed their protest to coincide with the Armistice Day holiday _ marking the end of World War I _ hours after the annual military parade for the commemoration.
Police blocked off large swaths of central Paris, with trucks of riot police deployed along the Champs-Elysees and near the presidential palace. Some 715 officers were brought in from other districts, raising the full deployment to 2,220.
"Today, we don't want an armistice _ we want peace," national police chief Michel Gaudin told reporters. "An armistice is a temporary halt. What we want is definitive peace for the suburbs."
The unrest has declined under state-of-emergency measures enacted Wednesday and a heavy police presence. The 15th consecutive night of violence saw fewer skirmishes and fewer cars burned _ 463, down from 482 the previous night, police said.
"We have seen a continued drop beyond Paris, but persistence near the capital," said national police spokesman Patrick Hamon. "We cannot yet claim victory, the drop remains fragile."
President Jacques Chirac acknowledged Thursday that France must confront the social inequalities and discrimination that has fueled the violence _ France's worst since the 1968 student-worker uprising.
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LOL. Not quite as well-dressed as the Wehrmacht!
Reminds me of the photo of Hitler standing on the Trocadero viewing the Eiffel Tower. I guess one day we'll see the future Emir of France enjoying that same view.
"Down to 463. LOL"
Hey, that is way down...
428 is normal...
ROFLOL
Oh, I agree with you. I was talking about the French citizens demonstrating against the rioting. While not stupendous, is a little step in the right direction as opposed to quiet seething in their homes.
This guy's as big an idiot on this subject as our U.S. leadership.
Reason with snakes and cockroaches? Treat them as equals? coddle them? social "inequalities" and "discrimination"?
How do you "force" a whole subculture to embrace personal responsibility, competence and achievement? The only means I can think of is fascism or some other form of totalitarianism.
Work or starve has such a nice ring to it...
</sarcasm>
ROTFL..
touche
God the French are stupid.
Their answer to everything is a protest march.
What the hell does that accomplish in the real world?
No wonder they are so damn ineffective.
Pathetic losers all.
Analysts pointed out that this represents a robust four percent decline, and based upon this performance experts have revised their forecasts and are now predicting that France won't run of of cars until the third quarter of 2006.
60,000 automobiles times say $10,000 each = $600 million.
"Reason with snakes and cockroaches? Treat them as equals? "
Snakes and cockroaches ARE Chiraq's equals.
Now all they need to do is issue each demonstrater a 45 automatic, 100 rounds of Talon ammo, and ear tags for 3 Buck rioters and 2 Does per season. Season to last until out of ammo or rioters exterminated. Each tagged carcass turned in gets the demonstrater more ammo.
Yep, that is what I thought, as I mentioned on an earlier thread, this was brought on by "Big Auto" follow the money. /sarcasm off
Ah, the fruits of Islamofacism, barbarians. May they join Allah in hades.
How does this "help" exactly? Remember the airliner full of American passengers who endured a multi-hour flight while being terrorized by a half dozen cockroach "musicians"?
The passengers should have "marched" to show their displeasure?
Or should the sandmaggots have been "prematurely disembarked"?
Marching quietly to the gas chambers just isn't my style.
I didn't say it "helped", and once that word is taken out I see no reason for disagreement. I think citizens gathering and demonstrating is better than nothing, that is all. I never said it was a great solution (in fact I said it was not stupendous), just better than nothing.
The only room for disagreement based on what I've actually said is if you think them hiding in their homes is better than marching, otherwise we are in complete agreement.
Actually, the Citroen 2Cv is a bloody great little car. I drive one regularly when I visit New Zealand. It's a hoot to drive. Okay, it takes all day to get to 60 mph, but it also gets 60 mpg, which is great in a country where gas costs $6.00 a gallon. People who think the 2CV is junk usually have neither owned one nor driven one.
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