"Yutes."
Posted on 11/12/2005 11:25:57 PM PST by SmithL
PARIS -- Thousands of Parisian police guarded the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees and train stations on Saturday as part of emergency measures enacted in response to text messages and Internet postings that called for "violent actions" in the capital. In Lyon, France's third largest city, police fired tear gas to disperse stone-hurling youths at the historic Place Bellecour.
It was the first time in 17 days of unrest that youths clashed with police in a major city.
Hours earlier, authorities had announced a weekend curfew in Lyon, barring youths under 18 from being outside without adult supervision between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
In separate incidents Saturday night in the southern city of Carpentras, rioters rammed burning cars into the side of a retirement home and a school. A second school and linen store were also set ablaze there.
The violence started in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois on Oct. 27 when about 100 youths rioted to protest the accidental deaths of two Muslim teens who were electrocuted while hiding from police in an electricity substation.
The turmoil, marked by arson and clashes with police, quickly spread across France in housing projects plagued by unemployment and alienation. The unrest has forced France to confront its failure to integrate minorities and the anger simmering among its large African and Arab communities.
The emergency measures in Paris came a day after cell phone text messages and Internet blog postings called for "violent actions" in Paris on Saturday evening. Authorities banned public gatherings considered risky in an effort to keep the unrest from reaching inside the capital.
"This is not a rumor," National Police Chief Michel Gaudin said. "One can easily imagine the places where we must be highly vigilant."
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I happened to catch a bit of Wattenberg on this tonight coming home from work. But I live 1,000 miles north of KGO - what's Bernie the Hutt yammering about now? I can't believe that colossal pig's even still alive.
The MSM has been telling the world for 3 days and nights now that the violence is over, and France has it all under control.
"Yutes."
There's more than enough scrap metal from the torched cars to build another Eiffel Tower! Cest la Vie!
Muslim girls aren't allowed to excell lest they show up Muslim males for the idiots they are. So they're denied schooling, and God forbid they get a good job.
This implies they have cell phones, computers and Internet service.
Not bad for an underclass that is poor and unemployed.
"What's a 'yute'?"
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