Posted on 11/11/2005 10:32:57 AM PST by areafiftyone
Paris police today put a temporary ban on some types of public gatherings, citing concerns about a string of mobile phone or Internet messages urging “violent actions” in the French capital.
Any gatherings of “a nature that could provoke or encourage disorder” will be banned from 10 am tomorrow to 8 am on Sunday, Paris police headquarters said in a statement.
“Messages distributed in the last few days over the internet and by text messaging have called for gatherings on November 12 in Paris and ’violent actions’,” the statement said.
France enacted a state of emergency on Wednesday, with five regions imposing curfews for minors in an effort to combat a wave of arson and rioting across the country over the last two weeks.
Paris was deploying more than 2,000 police to keep order in the capital this weekend.
Well where the f@ck have these police been while the rest of the country is burning? They never thought to use their police (or heaven forbid their military) to get this sh!t under control?
Idiots!!!
500 cars were burned last night. Its going real well (/sarcasm), The French Media has stopped reporting about the riots and assume "Out of Sight, Out of Mind".
I knew it, the rioters are just resting up for the weekend.
that'll do it, if the police see a telephone,retreat and regroup at Chirac's place
Doogle
And what/who will actually ENFORCE said ban, Mr Chirac?
I say that we should send in some of our own protestors - screw them how they screwed us.
The next we will know, France will ban fire bombing, rioting, and arson.
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