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Riots Erupt in French City Centre
BBC UK ^ | 12 Nov 2005 | BBC News

Posted on 11/12/2005 10:57:54 AM PST by timsbella

Police in the French city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin.

Police on the city's famous Place Bellecour square made two arrests in what state news agency AFP says is the first rioting in a major city centre.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; insurgency; intifada; jihad; parisriots; popcorn; quagmire; surrender; terrorism; trop; uprising
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Can't wait for the Germany/France soccer game slated for later today....stay tuned for tomorrow's BBC Scorecard posted by Bella!
1 posted on 11/12/2005 10:57:55 AM PST by timsbella
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To: timsbella

Somebody call in AI quick! We don't want any human rights violations going on. Tear gassing those poor rioters and what not. Oh the horrors.


2 posted on 11/12/2005 11:03:01 AM PST by Shaun_MD (Here I abandon peace and desecrate law. Farewell to treaties. Fortune it is you I follow)
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To: timsbella
Two Mosques were attacked the other night... So now the anti-muslim factor will be adding heat for the fire.

Civil war factors IMHO...

3 posted on 11/12/2005 11:03:33 AM PST by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)
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To: timsbella

The football game...


4 posted on 11/12/2005 11:03:40 AM PST by College Repub
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To: timsbella



I keep trying to muster sympathy to no avail....


5 posted on 11/12/2005 11:05:15 AM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: timsbella
This could be just the tip of the iceberg...I've heard France is trying to suppress any "unfavorable" news reports.
6 posted on 11/12/2005 11:07:03 AM PST by NewMediaFan (Fake but accurate)
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To: timsbella
Do you know of any webcams in France? It was really something watching the webcam in Baghdad before the war.
7 posted on 11/12/2005 11:07:08 AM PST by hummingbird (Think I'll google for a while.....on FRED THOMPSON for a seat on the SUPREME COURT!)
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To: SouthernFreebird

8 posted on 11/12/2005 11:08:11 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: timsbella; All
Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.


Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:


Kindly note tagline:


9 posted on 11/12/2005 11:09:35 AM PST by backhoe (Anyone recall "A Clockwork Orange?")
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To: timsbella

Lyon has always been riper for this than even Paris imo.


10 posted on 11/12/2005 11:09:53 AM PST by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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Hey Chirac,

This time don't call on the U.S. to help you out.

After the way the French treated us, I hope they burn.


11 posted on 11/12/2005 11:12:07 AM PST by girlangler (I'd rather be fishing)
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To: jimbo123

That's hilarious. I didn't think you could have so many French jokes in one picture.


12 posted on 11/12/2005 11:15:55 AM PST by varyouga (Reformed Kerry voter ( I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
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Can't wait for the Germany/France soccer game slated for later today....

why...are German and French youths(real French and German blood)going to riot after the soccer game for more government handouts???..what's your point with your statement?

13 posted on 11/12/2005 11:16:08 AM PST by Getsmart64
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To: timsbella

These idiots should be firing more than tear gas.


14 posted on 11/12/2005 11:16:35 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: timsbella

ok..excuse me...didn't understand your post before going and looking at your posting history of the French riots...my bad....


15 posted on 11/12/2005 11:19:03 AM PST by Getsmart64
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To: Shaun_MD

Speaking of which, Amnesty International should have been all over France for the way they've been treating their muzzie population all this time. I wonder why they haven't. Hmmm.


16 posted on 11/12/2005 11:21:19 AM PST by AmishDude (Amishdude, the one and only.)
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To: SouthernFreebird

"I keep trying to muster sympathy to no avail...."

Just think of a little, three year old girl, helpless as a lamb. Did she vote? Did she cause this mess? But then again, when I think of some 45 year old socialist adulterer with "Chirac 2020" posters outside his house, I'm back to tweaking again.


17 posted on 11/12/2005 11:21:30 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("We might have dodged a bomb but we lost a lot of brains." Bill Clinton [Veteran Sink Soldier])
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bump


18 posted on 11/12/2005 11:22:53 AM PST by Dark Skies (" For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. " Matthew 6:21)
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To: hummingbird
Les Webcams Froguises (may not work if Windows blocks unknown s/w on your machine)
19 posted on 11/12/2005 11:24:55 AM PST by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: backhoe
Yes.

Something mechanical that masquerades as something organic.
20 posted on 11/12/2005 11:25:02 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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