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France seeks to extend crisis law (BBC Scorecard of Scorched Cars)
BBC UK ^ | 14 Nov 2005 | BBC News

Posted on 11/14/2005 4:21:06 AM PST by timsbella

Police said 284 cars were set on fire overnight on Sunday, and 115 people were arrested.

Vandals rammed a car into a primary school in the southern city of Toulouse before setting the building on fire.

In northern France, arsonists set fire to a sports centre in the suburb of Faches-Thumesnil and a school in the town of Halluin.

The disturbances are France's worst since the 1968 student-worker protests.

13 November: 284 cars 12 November: 374 cars 11 November: 502 cars 10 November: 463 cars 9 November: 394 cars 8 November: 617 cars 7 November: 1,400 cars

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: france; parisriots; trop
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Bonne matin mes amis! Would you like a "croissant" to go with that flag?

They only posted the cars burned this past week. Total is 7890 from my calculations from start to this morning - using their daily posted figures.

1 posted on 11/14/2005 4:21:07 AM PST by timsbella
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Did you see the sketch on SNL this weekend?..Hilarious..It showed Chirac holding a presser to announce FRance's response to the riots..He said.."We surrender"..You'd think there's a Freeper writing for the show..


2 posted on 11/14/2005 4:23:35 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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I think it is a Greenpeace/Islamofacist 'axis of evil', bent upon destruction of Infidel/SUV's
3 posted on 11/14/2005 4:28:30 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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SNL is still on?????.....it really 'bit the big one' the last few times I tried to watch it.....


4 posted on 11/14/2005 4:29:41 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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"Vandals rammed a car into a primary school in the southern city of Toulouse before setting the building on fire"

Vandals being the secret code for MUSLIMS....ooops I let the secret out.

Your figure is wrong....it is 9525 (cars).

One way the numbers are calculated do not reflect the truth either.....

Only one car is counted for each incident.....I shall try to explain in English....

Imagine your car is burnt by MUSLIMS, and that your car being parked near 5 other cars set fire to them.....Only yours will be counted, the 5 others will not be taken into account for the daily total.....They are considered collateral damages.
Same goes for shops and bussinesses, the first fire counts , but the buildings next to them being set ablaze are not counted.

So, how many cars really burnt will never be known.

Kristopher.


5 posted on 11/14/2005 4:30:23 AM PST by Kristopher
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Can we expect an all-out MSM Special bulletin when the 10,000th car is torched? Will they a) ask ponderously whether this is the turning point watershed milestone of the beginning of the end for seventy years of Socialist collaboration with Fascism of various kinds, or will they simply b) ignore the number and blame Bush?


6 posted on 11/14/2005 4:45:08 AM PST by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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"Can we expect an all-out MSM Special bulletin"

I doub very much, unlesstheir cars become a casualty of the French Jihadists.
Even some news outlets in France refuse to give the numbers....for fear of copycats....lol.

What they are really hiding is the extend of the Intifada, and as news media are controlled by the Chirac government, they are obeying orders.

K.


7 posted on 11/14/2005 4:49:11 AM PST by Kristopher
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France claims its getting better because they are burining fewer cars. LOL

Dumb bastards. They are burning fewer cars because cars are getting harder to find. Any car left out now is out so the owner can collect the Insurance. Anyone with good sense is putting their car in a garage or parking it in a better neighborhood and walking home.


8 posted on 11/14/2005 5:00:59 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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A nice graphic I found; not updated with weekend number yet.


9 posted on 11/14/2005 5:04:13 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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Hasn't this year been the year of solving poverty? Where is Bill Clinton, I thought he was the global go to guy for solving this? Oh that is right he been busy revising his historical record this past week.


10 posted on 11/14/2005 5:05:44 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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11 posted on 11/14/2005 5:09:42 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Let's tear down the observatory so we never get hit by a meteor again!)
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I just heard a news report saying that the violence in France appears to be dissipating, that "only" 284 cars were burned last night compared to 1400 during the "peak" of the violence.

Maybe they are running out of cars to burn, or more people are learning to park them in their garages.
12 posted on 11/14/2005 5:15:38 AM PST by Forte Runningrock
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FOR SALE:

2001 PUEGOT, 75K KILOMETERS, GOOD CONDITION, NEEDS PAINT JOB AND EXTENSIVE INTERIOR WORK. 6000 EURO, OR WILL CONSIDER TRADE FOR LARGE BORE SHOTGUN........

13 posted on 11/14/2005 5:19:45 AM PST by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps, Saving France's Bacon Since 1775.............)
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Vandals rammed a car into a primary school...

Vandals? Are these Germans or Poles rioting?

14 posted on 11/14/2005 6:01:29 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

You bring up a good point. Someday Muslim might be parallel in common usage to vandals, thugs (a group in India) gyps (Gypsies).


15 posted on 11/14/2005 6:08:11 AM PST by From many - one.
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Splendid. Good one on Gateway Pundit, but I still haven't taken the time to figure out how to post.


16 posted on 11/14/2005 6:11:54 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada!)
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un ven vee havt burnd all dis cars - dis world vell be ours frreee froum de traffic det vee hates so muchty.

This from the French department of transportation regarding: "Le plan to controls polletysion un ve highvay traffik"

The idea comes from gun control laws - get rid of the cars - they are killing people - with the cars - 0h my can't you see this country is nuts over cars - they are killing our children - burn the cars.


17 posted on 11/14/2005 6:16:46 AM PST by kentj
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To: From many - one.

"My car was muslimized last night." Might work.


18 posted on 11/14/2005 6:48:54 AM PST by popdonnelly
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I will say this many, many times over the coming few years...

All I ever needed to know about France can be summed up in one word -Vichy!

They just haven't figured out who to collaborate with, but when they do...

19 posted on 11/14/2005 7:05:04 AM PST by Comstock1 (I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all outta bubble gum!)
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To: timsbella

20 posted on 11/14/2005 7:29:49 AM PST by BulletBobCo
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