Posted on 11/12/2005 4:17:23 AM PST by janetjanet998
PARIS - The number of cars torched overnight in France climbed slightly over the previous night to 502 in a 16th night of unrest that took its heaviest toll on the French provinces, police said Saturday.
Security was boosted in the capital with some 3,000 police officers fanning out around strategic points to counter feared weekend attacks targeting Paris. Gatherings were banned from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
"We returned to an almost normal situation in Ile de France," said national police chief Michel Gaudin, referring to the Paris region. Arson attacks were counted in 163 towns around France, he said. The count of those detained overnight stood at 206, bringing to 2,440 the number of suspects picked up in just over two weeks of unrest.
Two Molotov cocktails were tossed at a mosque Friday evening in the southern town of Carpentras, but it was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to the unrest that has wracked the poor suburbs and small towns of France since Oct. 27. President Jacques Chirac demanded that investigators quickly find out who was behind the attack.
How are they putting up with this? Amazing!
Pretty soon they'll have enough scrap metal from those cars to build a second Eiffel Tower -Bwaaahaaahaaaaa!
what is the total "car count" now?
"We returned to an almost normal situation," has to be quote of the weekend.
You know what they used to say... SNAFU: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.
The French insurance companies probibly don't cover acts of civil unrest.Very likely if your car is torched you eat the loss.
If I had a '92 Peugot, I'd be thinking about parking it in the 'wrong' neighborhood and collecting the insurance.
reminds me of richard pryor talking about killing his car.
Yes it it's obvious which group of the population has the power in france and it's not the ordinary french voter. Someone in the ME still has strings (money or bribery?) attached to Chiraq.
I cannot imagine the good people of American allowing something like this to happen in the USA.
Which pollutes more; a Citroen on fire for an hour, or a Citroen driven for 20 years?
Odds are that the islamofascists torched the mosque to justify further violence.
I think Iraq should have taught us exactly how respectful the islamofascists are of their own Mosques.
I was wondering about that. If 9000 Frenchmen have to eat the bill for their cars, they won't be happy. Zut alors, zere could be a revolutione!
I hope they got the last of those #$@&* Renaults.
7232 according to the BBC. I've been posting a scorecard daily.
Rush: "Remember the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? Where are the 10,000 bodies? I want to see the 10,000 bodies. 'Til I see 10,000 bodies I'm not going to believe a damn thing that these people say anymore."I posted his transcript here.
Jean Francois Kerry is very concerned over the plight of his allies, the French.
"French are running out of cars?"
In an effort to alleviate the shortage of cars to burn, General Motors has announced employee pricing in France.
Sounds more like it.
Save your Euros -- for an extra 10% off, tell them Mohamed sent you...
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