Posted on 10/04/2006 7:48:08 PM PDT by blam
Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union
By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent
(Filed: 05/10/2006)
Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.
Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy was warned of an 'intifada'
As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the most depressed "banlieue" estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.
It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones.
The number of attacks has risen by a third in two years. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the "taboo" of attacking officers on patrol has been broken.
Instead, officers – especially those patrolling in pairs or small groups – faced attacks as soon as they tried to arrest locals.
Senior officers insisted that the problem was essentially criminal in nature, with crime bosses on the estates fighting back against tough tactics.
The interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the leading centre-Right candidate for the presidency, has sent heavily equipped units into areas with orders to regain control from drug smuggling gangs and other organised crime rings. Such aggressive raids were "disrupting the underground economy in the estates", one senior official told Le Figaro.
However, not all officers on the ground accept that essentially secular interpretation. Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the hardline Action Police trade union, has written to Mr Sarkozy warning of an "intifada" on the estates and demanding that officers be given armoured cars in the most dangerous areas.
He said yesterday: "We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their 'comrades' free when they are arrested."
He added: "We need armoured vehicles and water cannon. They are the only things that can disperse crowds of hundreds of people who are trying to kill police and burn their vehicles."
However, Gerard Demarcq, of the largest police unions, Alliance, dismissed talk of an "intifada" as representing the views of only a minority.
Mr Demarcq said that the increased attacks on officers were proof that the policy of "retaking territory" from criminal gangs was working.
Mayors in the worst affected suburbs, which saw weeks of riots and car-burning a year ago, have expressed fears of a vicious circle, as attacks by locals lead the police to harden their tactics, further increasing resentment.
As if to prove that point, there were angry reactions in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux following dawn raids in search of youths who attacked a police unit on Sunday. The raids led to one arrest. They followed clashes on Sunday night when scores of youths attacked seven officers who had tried to arrest a man for not wearing his seat belt while driving. That driver refused to stop, and later rammed a police car trying to block his path.
The mayor of Les Mureaux, Francois Garay, criticised aggressive police tactics that afterwards left "the people on the ground to pick up the pieces".
Mohammad will dominate. Kiss your butt goodbye.
You need machine guns and flamethrowers.
Build the wall Frenchy. While you still can.
Wouldn't cluster bombs, flame throwers, or even an old German MG42 disperse a crowd, too?
Who hasn't wanted to do that?
Nah, just have the postmen refuse to deliver welfare checks to the dangerous areas.
Funny how they feel safe in the projects, umm, I mean city estates.
In a related story, there has been a huge run on white cloth and flag poles in Paris.
LOL!
Worth repeating, many, many, many, many times over, b.
Europe is almost toast. America had better wake-up, and clean out 'The Enemy Within', before taking-on the murderous, subhuman muslim-islamist-arabs, or another 2-front war will surely degrade our assets to the point of collapse.
Ping-A-Roo!
The mayors were worried about "increasing resentment".
The evidence suggests that they should just surrender
the areas where resentment runs highest to the resenters,
as to avoid having resentment spread to more of the
resentment prone in the general populace.
toda's headline:
"Muslims Are Waging Civil War Against Us, Claims Police Union (France)"
And thanks to OUR guvmint filling the immigration pipeline with the
potential Jihadis, the future headline is likely:
"Muslims Are Waging Civil War Against USA, Claims Police Union"
previously posted links:
More Muslims moving to U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699992/posts
Victor Davis Hanson: Those Saudi Students. It’s not irrational to be wary of this deal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701943/posts
US schools compete for Saudi students -not yet able do effective background checks on applicants
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699252/posts
Schools compete for thousands of Saudi students
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687086/posts
You cannot use the words "Muslim" and "Civil" in the same sentence.
No Charles Martel to save them this time.
Civil war??? pull out! pull out! you cannot win, our democRATs have proven this with geometric logic. Just ask Murtha. Move your police to Okinawa ... OK, maybe for France you can station them in Martinique.
Exactly what the Muslim Albanians did in the Serbian province of Kosovo!
I dont believe America will go down without a fight. We are armed, thank God. At some point in this war against Islam ,Americans will do what they have to do to stay free.
Once this happens liberals will become silent in a hurry.
I heard that's what actually stopped the Rodney King riots, postmen not delivering welfare checks in a riot zone. Any truth to that?
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