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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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To: Shaun_MD

Rioters?

Aren't they Islamic Freedom Fighters? If France is a racist country that warehouses these people in ghettos, then aren't they fighting for their freedom... By torching one car at a time.


21 posted on 11/12/2005 11:25:38 AM PST by Garry Boldwater
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To: timsbella
I heard that Lyon has a larger number of muslims than Paris or Marseilles.
22 posted on 11/12/2005 11:27:32 AM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: timsbella

Found in the BVDs of France's leaders today ...grey poop-on.

23 posted on 11/12/2005 11:28:14 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: Shaun_MD
Tear Gas.

AAhhh - chemical warfare has been used on the Muslims in France.

The French unleash WMD against poor unemployed youth in a blatant display of racist genocide.

It was a massacre I tell you, a massacre. </sarcasm>

I think we should call in a UN peace keeping force!
24 posted on 11/12/2005 11:28:25 AM PST by cdrw (Freedom and responsibility are inseparable)
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To: timsbella

The French will be promoting a new olympic sport....bin hurling.


25 posted on 11/12/2005 11:30:26 AM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: Sender
Thanks, Sender! I'll give it a try after the game.
26 posted on 11/12/2005 11:31:24 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: jimbo123

And the ancient centers of Christendom go up in flames and Muslim riots.

Paris, Lyon, Sens, Noyon, Reims, Avignon, Toulouse...

Alas, it appears that those who made things such and their defenders have abandoned their post.


27 posted on 11/12/2005 11:34:48 AM PST by CheyennePress
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To: cdrw

You know some fool is now going to say exactly that. France used chemical weapons on unarmed civilians.
Therefore France itself is to blame for more violence yada yada yada. I wonder who's fault it will be. I blame Bush, and Oscar the Grouch.


28 posted on 11/12/2005 11:36:22 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

The Democrats demand that order be restored in France so that they have some place to threaten to move to.


29 posted on 11/12/2005 11:39:16 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: timsbella

Coming soon to a city near you.


30 posted on 11/12/2005 11:42:02 AM PST by Salvey (ancest)
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To: hummingbird

There are several but some seem to be not transmitting. This one is working. Need Java


http://www.grandlyon.com/index.php?id=150


31 posted on 11/12/2005 11:47:12 AM PST by blogblogginaway (..)
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To: Recovering Hermit

A few night ago, some French politician was wringinh his hands on TV and cried, .... and if the Police kill even one prtester, there will so many more riots by our dissatisfied youth!

Bere beginnith the first lesson. Kill one and the riots will erupt. Kill 100 and the riots will stop.


32 posted on 11/12/2005 11:48:45 AM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: hummingbird
Do you know of any webcams in France?

Here you go. Of course, you have to fill in the gaps with your imagination.


33 posted on 11/12/2005 11:49:14 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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If you can get this one up, you can control the direction with the sliders at the side and bottom. Press the 'start control' button and you can navigate with the sliders.

http://www.grandlyon.com/index.php?id=150


35 posted on 11/12/2005 11:53:14 AM PST by blogblogginaway (..)
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To: timsbella

I'm sure the French govt. is feverishly working up a plan to blame America for causing this, which has irreparably damaged their tourism industry. Expect a World Court lawsuit after New Year's. I'm sure Koffi will back them all the way, too.


36 posted on 11/12/2005 11:53:48 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: timsbella

Oh no more youths!


37 posted on 11/12/2005 11:54:42 AM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: everyone

Evening from a very rainy Kent, England. From over the channel, I can't help but think that this is in fact an awful lot worse than the French leadership is letting on.


38 posted on 11/12/2005 11:56:07 AM PST by Big Bad Bob (In Times Of Thought, Let Us Never Forget.)
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To: popdonnelly

LOL!


39 posted on 11/12/2005 11:56:48 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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To: timsbella
President Bush May Send Up To 5 Marines For French Assistance

President Bush has authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a battle plan to pull France's ass out of the fire again. Facing an apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 pissed-off teenagers Mr. Bush doubts France's ability to hold off the little piss ants much longer. "Hell, if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender any day now", said Bush. Joint Chiefs head, Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 Marines to get things under control. The general admitted that 5 Marines may be overkill but he wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on scene. He also stated he was having a hard time finding even one Marine willing to help those ungrateful bastards out for a third time, but thought that he could persuade a few women Marines to do the job before they went on pregnancy leave.

President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our Marines out of there as soon as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace to make sure the Marines do not take tooth brushes, soap, razors, or deodorant with them. The less they stand out, the better.

In an unrelated matter, President Bush told reporters that he was considering a "Flu for Oil" Program to ease our country's energy problem and prevent the upcoming pandemic. Nobody had a clue as to what the hell he was talking about.

40 posted on 11/12/2005 11:57:00 AM PST by B-Cause (“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”)
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