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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: B-Cause

LOL, the cockerels are coming home to roost.

Viva La France!!!


41 posted on 11/12/2005 11:58:30 AM PST by Big Bad Bob (In Times Of Thought, Let Us Never Forget.)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

It's begun.


42 posted on 11/12/2005 11:58:45 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (We DARE Defend Our Rights [Alabama State Motto])
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To: timsbella

It's great that the MSM here in the States is keeping us informed of everything happening in France. The wonderful MSM.


43 posted on 11/12/2005 11:59:14 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: timsbella

What? John Francois Kerry hasn't teamed up with Black Jack Chirac to put a stop to the violence yet?


44 posted on 11/12/2005 12:02:34 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
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To: popdonnelly

Reports of further disturbances in Toulouse, cars are being burned. No further news about the rioting in Lyon.


45 posted on 11/12/2005 12:02:52 PM PST by Big Bad Bob (In Times Of Thought, Let Us Never Forget.)
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To: Big Bad Bob

They've put a news blackout on the rioting. Le Monde, said the rioting was getting too much coverage.


46 posted on 11/12/2005 12:03:56 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: backhoe

Yep, do recall....Very different thinking/movie at the time


47 posted on 11/12/2005 12:04:30 PM PST by litehaus
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To: Garry Boldwater
"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."

OH NO! What will all that smoke mean for Kyoto?!?!? /sarcasm

48 posted on 11/12/2005 12:06:06 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
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To: cake_crumb

"What? John Francois Kerry hasn't teamed up with Black Jack Chirac to put a stop to the violence yet?"

He's waiting for the UN.


49 posted on 11/12/2005 12:06:39 PM PST by sono (That was a metaphor. You DO know what a metaphor is? - Z Miller)
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To: Rennes Templar

Youths today, insurgents tomorrow.


50 posted on 11/12/2005 12:07:04 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: cake_crumb

"What? John Francois Kerry hasn't teamed up with Black Jack Chirac to put a stop to the violence yet?"

In an attempt to help the French, Kerry has pronounced the riots to be a "nuisance".



51 posted on 11/12/2005 12:10:51 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: B-Cause
"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."

Oh d@mn! My stomach muscles are already sore from coughing all night and that laugh hurt, but ROFLOL!

52 posted on 11/12/2005 12:10:53 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
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To: popdonnelly
Yep. And they had all their crack reporters on the Sandy Berger scandal too.
53 posted on 11/12/2005 12:11:05 PM PST by Mulch (tm)
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To: Recovering Hermit

Why? The tear gas is so effective at getting the crowd to move toward the machine guns.....


54 posted on 11/12/2005 12:14:15 PM PST by When do we get liberated? ((God save us from the whining, useless, irrelevent left...))
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To: sono
"He's waiting for the UN."

Hmmmm....but would France, Russia and Germany support him?

55 posted on 11/12/2005 12:16:49 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
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To: Mulch

Yeah, I guess we'll never know why Berger stole the documents.


56 posted on 11/12/2005 12:16:50 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I'm sure the French govt. is feverishly working up a plan to blame America for causing this

Ooohhhhh....no doubt...there is a FReeper thread where some "Yoots" have mentioned the Iraqi's having more freedom than they do....it will all come back home to Prez Bush....the MSM will pick it up and jump all over it...

57 posted on 11/12/2005 12:19:10 PM PST by Getsmart64
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To: Shaun_MD

I blame Bush and that dog Buttons who came back from the dead.


58 posted on 11/12/2005 12:19:32 PM PST by Taffini (My cat hates your cat)
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To: Shaun_MD

Tear gassing those poor rioters and what not. Oh the horrors



Sua was right, they use poison gas on Palestinians /s off


59 posted on 11/12/2005 12:20:18 PM PST by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: popdonnelly
In an attempt to help the French, Kerry has pronounced the riots to be a "nuisance".

Wow, strong words. Now waiting for him to demand a UN resolution condemning "nuisances" and promising even stronger language still if they don't straighten up and act right.

60 posted on 11/12/2005 12:20:55 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: One Wing to Rule Them All and to the Dark Side Bind Them)
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