Posted on 01/04/2006 6:19:14 PM PST by blam
French Riviera gang terrorises passengers in two-hour train rampage
By Colin Randall
(Filed: 05/01/2006)
Hundreds of passengers were terrorised by a mob of youths rampaging through a train on the French Riviera.
One young woman was sexually assaulted, travellers were robbed of phones and cash, and carriages were wrecked in the two-hour assault, it emerged yesterday.
Up to 40 youths involved in the attacks had taken advantage of a special fare of about 80p to travel from Marseilles and Avignon to celebrate the New Year in Nice.
They were part of a larger group of 100, many drunk from their overnight festivities and escorted by police to Nice station for their return journey at dawn on Sunday.
A small police team accompanied the Lyons-bound train at first. But trouble broke out soon after their departure.
Eventually the driver stopped the train at Les Arc-sur-Argens to appeal for extra police assistance. Only three officers turned up and violence continued as they awaited reinforcements before boarding the train. The line was blocked for an hour and a half as police gained control of the train.
Passengers spoke of being warned they would be killed if they refused to hand over belongings or told police what had happened.
They said they were too frightened to intervene and several refused to lodge complaints of theft or assault.
"It was a real scene of pillage on the train," the regional prosecutor, Dominique Luiggi, said yesterday as details emerged. "Passengers were in a state of panic."
One witness said there had already been assaults and threats, including other indecent attacks on young women, on Saturday's outward journey.
He said the robbers were of Arab origin and had boasted about their plans to cause more trouble on the train.
President Jacques Chirac promised yesterday to bring the gang to justice. He said those responsible would be "found and punished".
France's Le Parisien newspaper likened the youths to the gang in the film Clockwork Orange.
that should help French tourism
instead of "Fall in love again" the French tourism slogan should be "pillaged and raped again"
I returned from France in June of this year after spending a few weeks there. I didn't run into any of these situations, but often I saw horribly misbehaving kids of black/muslim origin on the trains, and the parents weren't doing anything about it. Except for when I grabbed the kid and told him to stop. In fact, I didn't see many Arabs over there at all. The only non-French I saw was when I was walking through Paris, saw a bunch of homeless blacks laying on the street. It was quite reassuring.
Goodness, no. That would be too harsh. They've got some nice, fat government pork coming their way. That will make them happy and cause them to not hurt people any more. Because they hurt people because they are sad.
Oops, Muslims aren't supposed to have pork. Therefore, we have to come up with a new name for that term so as not to offend Muslims. But they'll still get, umm... "government benefits."
I got enough ammo for all muzzies...
Mooslim Yoots doing what they do best: rape; rampage; and pillage.
The best thing to do is not to let these people into the country.
Guess where I'm not going.
France has yet to get the message..........eliminate them like cockroaches; that's all they are. If not, don't come whining.........don't want to hear it.
Overrun by barbarians...again. When will they ever learn?
BtD's new travel policy - I'm not going anywhere I can't take a large semiautomatic pistol. It narrows the field down quite a bit. I don't care.
That's right. Muzzy is big and friendly and teaches children to speak foreign languages.
An armed society is a polite society.
"I was walking through Paris, saw a bunch of homeless blacks laying on the street. It was quite reassuring."
My trips to Paris/France were 50s' 60s' 70s' vintage - quite enjoyable - glad I got it out of the way then.
My mother took my daughter to France for a couple of weeks 2 years ago. I wasn't concerned at the time, this was before the war and all these stories, and my mother is French and is over there often. (She also spent her childhood in Cairo and is not ignorant about North Africans/muslims et al).
If she was to offer that trip to her today it would be a tough decision. Europe is becoming more dangerous IMHO, and in a weird unpredictable kind of way.
Uh, they were on the moving train. How hard could it be to find them?
UN sanctions?
Europe is no longer safe for ethnic Europeans.
You sound like some kind of pro-civilization bigot! [/sarcasm]
He said the robbers were of Arab origin and had boasted about their plans to cause more trouble on the train.
***They said they were too frightened to intervene and several refused to lodge complaints of theft or assault. ***
Typical French response. Nothing here to see. Move on.
Remember, Islam is the religion of love.
Our President told us so.
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