As a cousin of the Utes, I'm tired of my people getting blamed for crap the Muslims do!
Posted on 10/27/2006 1:45:22 PM PDT by SmithL
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- Police deployed 4,000 reinforcements as marauding youths torched at least two public buses Friday, the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France.
After the buses were burned, Paris' transport authority curtailed bus service in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of the capital, which is home to thousands of immigrants and their French-born children.
Thierre Ange, a 19-year-old witness, said four men attacked the bus, "made everyone get off, then they hit a woman and dragged out the bus driver by his tie" and torched the bus with a gasoline bomb in a bottle. The blackened carcass of another bus that was burned earlier stood across town in Le Blanc Mesnil.
Flaming cars became a symbol of the rioting last year, which jolted France into recognizing a failure to give equal opportunities to many minorities — especially those of Arab and black African origin — and the country's 5 million-strong Muslim population.
The national police said 50 units of extra officers and riot police — or about 4,000 men — were deployed across the country to brace for a possible resurgence of violence. Some 7,000 police are at the ready on an average night in France, officials have said.
The outburst of anger at the accidental deaths of the two teens — who were electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois while hiding from police on Oct. 27, 2005 — grew into a broader challenge of the French state.
Several hundred people marched silently Friday through Clichy-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris, in honor of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore. Benna, 17, was buried in his father's native Tunisia. Traore, 15, was of Mauritanian descent.
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Note to France: You are not going to solve this problem until you start throwing these "youths" in jail. As an outsider, it sounds to me that civil war is just around the corner. As a side benefit, throwing these rioters in jail will help reduce your high unemployment problem.
Citizen vigilantes started up once during the car burnings. They might again. Their pc govt. is urging calm, and I don't think he was just addressing the islamonazis.
In Pat Buchanan's book "The Death Of The West", he said the same thing about Europe's eventual demise.
The Director of Public Transport is probably halfway between crying and laughing. This is ridiculous.
No! leave it!!!!
I have met some Frenchmen who are just a hairs breadth from going back into WW II fighting mode a la Underground. These youths wouldn't want to trigger those men into that mode.
I dunno, bjj. That's one of the nicer photos of Ms Coulter.
"The Religion of Peace meets the Axis of weasels!"
Wish I had said it first. In a mere eight words you accurately portrayed the sum and substance of the issue. You should work as an editor.
It's the Interior Minister (what's his name? Sczorny??) that could really make this interesting. Electability.
"Heeeey man, I love the flames you painted on your....ohh..."
As a cousin of the Utes, I'm tired of my people getting blamed for crap the Muslims do!
hahahahaa.
In spite of what all is said about the French, when they decide to work together on a project they are formidable. When they have twenty political parties pulling all directions they go noplace. They might just say 'enough!' one of these days. Or whatever 'enough' is in French.
assez !
En quantite suffisante. Assez!
Praying for the Great Monarch to arise from the royal Lily of France.
Baptist Student/Youth Group gone "wilding".
Ok, Place a GMC medallion on that bus and set it next to a Toyota. That is a scene in the US if we don't stop this Political Correctness BS, Now!
A photo of Ann is never on a "wrong" thread. It makes any thread "right"eous. :)
But, but, but...I distincly remember that the French gov-ment was going to institute a program to create jobs, stimulate employment for these poor unfortunates and solve the problem. Gee, I wonder what went wrong...
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