Riot erupts in French city centre

BBC News ^ | 11/12/2005

[Panerai]

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.

Lyon has imposed a curfew for the first time in two weeks of nationwide unrest.

Thousands of police are patrolling Paris to enforce a ban on all public meetings likely to provoke rioting.

The trouble in Lyon began at about 1700 (1600 GMT) on Place Bellecour where a large number of riot police were on duty as a preventative measure.

About 50 youths attacked stalls and damaged vehicles, witnesses were quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

Shoppers hurried away from the area and most shopkeepers closed their doors.

Officials in Lyon and 10 other towns to the east of the city earlier announced a curfew to bar unaccompanied minors from the streets over the weekend between 2200 and 0600 local time.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy blamed the Lyon violence on a "demonstration by anarchists" without elaborating.

[sono]

French Cops aren't feelin' the love.

[nicmarlo]

Some french police are on strike...after the jailing of one of their colleague.

And, in case they wonder why police morale is at zero........

[Colorado Doug]

blamed the Lyon violence on a "demonstration by anarchists"

I don't think that it's anarchy they advocate, it's a Caliphate. (I didn't really mean to rhyme this time)

[MarkeyD]

Better post that to 'doug from upland'

[ApplegateRanch]

blamed the Lyon violence on a "demonstration by anarchists" without elaborating.

Sounds like the left has joined in on the fun.

Do you remember hearing anything about a WTO meeting in Lyon this weekend? I sure don't.

[backhoe]

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[Fruitbat]

I'M SHOCKED!

Y-A-W-N...

[Fruitbat]

How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris???

Nobody knows. They've never tried...

That's because they don't have any French men.

[Dane]

Place Bellacour.

Map of central Lyon.

[Bon mots]

                   Zut Alors! Mon Citroën!!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

If the yoots were driving utes; would the MSM be defending them, or condemning them?

[ApplegateRanch]

They're Africans.

Yes many are "Africans".

ARAB "Africans", from NORTH Africa, though a few sub-Saharan Africans are in the mix.

Mainly Algerian and Moroccan, along with other former French colonial territories represented, along with some Middle Easterners.

Point of fact, by far most of them are FRENCH, not African. Second and third generation children of immigrants, rather than "immigrants", as the press likes to term them.

A damned goodly number of these "youths" are also adults in their 20s, too.

They are only "youths" in the same sense that Democraps like to dismiss Chappaquiddick as a "youthful indiscretion".

[aliquando]

Thanks for the Feedback. Your the first one to tell me they "got it".

[The Westerner]

That was more informative than any of the news articles I've read. Thanks.

[LikeLight]

Lyon tonight...

[ApplegateRanch]

You're welcome.

The reason it is so hard to find is that they do their damnedest to bury it.

Now, they don't even want to report on the situation at all.

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