Posted on 10/08/2006 11:27:35 AM PDT by Eva
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy 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".
david.rennie@telegraph.co.uk
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That's funny. They don't seem to civil to me.
Muslims? Rioting? NNNNAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
They're a peaceful bunch; they mean no harm to anyone.
Le d'uh
The stupidity of the EU in regard to not only letting them in, but tolerating and pandering to them, should be a lesson for the entire CIVILIZED world...and that does NOT include our DemoRats. Morons that will bury this country all for power and control...at any price.
Plus a one-way ticket to the country of origin of their parents or their parent's parents or their parent's parent's parent's family.
The amount of money expended would be coq-feed compared to the mayhem, bloodshed, fiery destruction and expenditures coming down the Rue in the very near future.
Leni
I personally believe the Christian community in America has kept the Satanic hoarde at bay .. for we know our battle is not with flesh and blood.
Actually, there is nothing civil about this, and the worldwide leftist media does't want you to even know about it. This is what there one world gov't would bring you if the left gets back in control of this country. If you remember, Sidney Blumenthal once wrote a very long op-ed for the Seattle PI as a sort of apologia for Bill Clinton, during the run up to his second election. It was meant to answer the criticism that Clinton had no real agenda. Blumenthal explained that the Clintons did indeed have an agenda and that was the establisment of a one world government, "The Third Way".
The article wasn't well received and was quickly buried, never appearing on the internet or any search engines.
Hide the cars,
The solution is apparent. Kill them before they kill you.
Please follow the link in my first comment, the writer has some very wise comments on this situation. It was a link in her blog that I followed for the article.
"We are in a state of civil war...it's an intifada with stones and molotov cocktails...."They think they have problems now?Just wait till they replace "stones and molotov cocktails" with AK-47's and RPG's.
That is precisely the reason that this needs to be the headlines, not Foley, Foley, Foley. This is exactly what the Democrats would bring to the US by treating Islamo fascism as a civil matter. Please follow the link in my first comment.
Or flying planes into buildings?
Bump for your comment-Please follow the link in the first comment, as well.
Mr Demarcq said that the increased attacks on officers were proof that the policy of "retaking territory" from criminal gangs was working.
If the first is true then Mr. Demarcq is a fool.
The best solution I ever read to this problem is to cut perpetual unemployment benefits that the French enjoy. I the Muzzies have to work for a living they won’t have so much time and energy to make trouble. If they can’t find work in France maybe they will go home.
Please follow the link in the first comment. The writer has some very insightful remarks on the situation.
This sort of thing makes me believe the Japanese have the right idea.
You can’t get Japanese citizenship unless you can prove Japanese 100% linage. There are Koreans living in Japan who’s grandparents were brought to Japan as slaves in WW II who can’t get citizenship.
Without citizenship make trouble and your out. The French could deport entire apartment blocks when they roll out to torch a police car.
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