LOL...so the French are content to have just a few hundred cars torched per night and fewer schools, nurseries and businesses burned to the ground.
With the imposition of an unprecedented state of emergency authorising local authorities to slap curfews on unruly young people, hopes grew that the untamed youth of the suburbs would quietly return to their housing estates.
Classic burying one's head in the sand there France! Just hope the problem goes away...do ya think it'll stay away?
Many commentators on French television and the major newspapers whined about the gross exaggerations of the riots in the foreign media.
What gross exaggerations...the French have been providing torched car counts, there are muslim youths rioting in numerous French cities...where's the false part of the picture?
"This is not Chechnya," one angry resident of Clichy-sous-Bois, the isolated Paris immigrant suburb where the rioting began two weeks ago, angrily told The Australian at a memorial rally for the town's gym, burned down the evening before by a gleeful mob of pyromaniacs.
Of course it's not Chechnya...err...there are Russians in Chechnya and French in Clichy-sous-Bois...otherwise there is little difference.
Peugeot and Renault are deeply saddened...