Posted on 01/01/2006 3:15:06 PM PST by Mount Athos
Rowdy revelers in France torched 425 vehicles overnight in scattered New Year's Eve unrest that has become an annual problem in troubled neighborhoods, the national police chief said Sunday. Last year, 333 cars were burned. Police Chief Michel Gaudin also said there were no major clashes this year between youths and police overnight, as had been feared. In what has become an annual tradition every New Year's Eve, youths set several hundred cars ablaze in France as festivities get out of hand.
Police were especially cautious this time because of the wave three weeks of rioting and car burning that started in late October. A state of emergency imposed during the rioting is still in effect, and 25,000 police were on alert for the holiday.
The burnings have become a barometer of unrest in France. In other incidents, a small fire broke out at a school in Toulouse, in southwest France, and was quickly put out, local authorities said. In Nice on the French Riviera, firefighters were pelted with stones when they responded to an anonymous phone alert, officials said.
In the nearby Var department of southern France, youths also threw rocks at firefighters in a troubled neighborhood of La-Seine-sur-Mer, local authorities said.
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President Jacques Chirac spoke of the unrest during his annual New Year's Eve television address and urged the French to do more to fight racism and a lack of opportunities in poor neighborhoods — problems that fed frustrations among young rioters.
''Diversity is part of our history: It is a resource,'' he said. ''It is an asset for our future.''
Chirac also promised to do more to fight crime and violence.
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I just wuv multiculturalism.............................
And "diversity" toooooooooooooooooooo
A plot by Citreon and Peugeot to boost car sales?
Yoots again...
Just keep on appeasing them. One of these days it will be people burned/hanged for New Years unrest. We can call it "youths" demonstrating their frustration. And keep on embracing diversity instead of enforcing laws and civility. It will pay big dividends.
The car-burning rioters should be shot with diverse weapons.
Euro-twits, you have earned your destruction by the Islamists.
More's the pity that our own government is chomping at the bit to have our nation overwhelmed by "guest workers" as well...even though the outcome of such stupidity is plain.
Hey, at least they've found something that works!
If the French are too successful in suppressing the riots, will NATO bomb them as well? Good enough for the Serbs, good enough for the surrender monkeys.
the car insurance policies probably don't cover fire damage and vandalism anymore. Not without a large additional premium.
Sure sounds like a gala party to me ........ /sarc
Wow I thought they blew out all the cars months ago...
Stopped hearing anything for a long time. If I were Pres, of France, these jerks would be gone today...
Massive deportations. I'm sure the French citizens at this point would be willing to cooperate with that...If they are not, they are not worth saving..
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