Posted on 10/28/2006 6:41:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France - Marauding youths torched hundreds of vehicles overnight and on Saturday in renewed violence coinciding with the first anniversary of riots that exposed a deep schism between poor North African immigrants and mainstream France.
A group of teenagers set one bus on fire Saturday in the southern French port city of Marseille, seriously wounding a passenger. Three others suffered from smoke inhalation, police said. Two other public buses and 277 vehicles around the country were burned overnight, police said.
Six police were injured and 47 people were arrested, ministry officials said. Still the Interior Ministry described the night as "relative calm," noting that up to 100 cars are torched by youths in troubled neighborhoods on an average night.
Police had braced for a bigger replay of violence in the poor suburbs predominantly made up of Muslims from former French colonies in Africa. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the deaths of two teens that ignited three weeks of riots in 2005.
The rioting was fueled by anger at France's failure to offer equal opportunities to many minorities — especially Arabs and blacks — and France's 5 million-strong Muslim population.
France's trouble integrating minorities and the suburban unrest are becoming hot political issues in the campaign for next year's presidential and parliamentary elections. The government passed an equal opportunities law this spring and has poured funds into "sensitive" areas, but disenchantment is still pervasive.
The latest unrest centered on the troubled suburbs that ring Paris. Half the cars burned nationwide overnight were torched in the region around the capital. Of the 47 arrests, 33 people were taken into custody in the Paris suburbs, mostly for throwing projectiles, burning cars or generally vandalizing property, police said.
The national police said about 4,000 extra police and riot officers were deployed across the country to cope with a possible resurgence of violence. Some 7,000 police are at the ready on an average night in France, officials have said.
The bus attacks late Friday were not far from the site where the two teens were electrocuted in a power substation in Paris suburb Clichy-sous-Bois on Oct. 27, 2005. The two were hiding after what they thought was a police chase.
One bus was engulfed in flames at the foot of a high-rise housing project.
"Four guys attacked Bus 346," said witness Thierry Ange, 19. "They made everyone get off, then they hit a woman and dragged out the bus driver by his tie," then torched the bus with a gasoline bomb in a bottle, he said.
The blackened remains of another bus burned earlier stood across town. Two armed men had forced passengers off the bus, police said.
Youths also tried to burn a bus in Reims in eastern France, and attackers hurled metal balls at an empty bus in Trappes, west of Paris, the Interior Ministry said.
Scores of police, wielding shields and backed by a helicopter shining its searchlight, swept into a tough housing project in Montfermeil, a town near Clichy-sous-Bois, and several youths responded by throwing stones.
Paris' transport authority responded to the violence by curtailing bus services in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of the capital, which is home to thousands of immigrants and their French-born children.
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Associated Press writers Jean-Marie Godard and Jean-Pierre Verges contributed to this report from Paris.
I'm glad that what the Islamic bastards are pulling this crap in France before it gets over here. I see it as a preview for Americans to wake up.
My frustration in all of this islamic violence crap is that there are too many gutless, politically correct pacifists these days.
I've been arguing this point with another FReeper who told me to hide in Mommy's closet. Quite the contrary, if the FBI knocked on my door, they'd think I have a "weapons cache."
That said, I'd bet that most FReepers are well armed and prepared for what I see as eventual muslim rioting here in the USA. They are like a cancer, and our government is doing nothing about it except to invite more.
Sorry for the rant, but it really pisses me off that people just sit and take this shit. Look at the Spanish two years ago. They caved....
The riots are likely to take place in red state cities whose citizens are mostly disarmed already.
Islamofascists who try to pull this stunt in a red state filled with well-armed citizens are going to win express tickets to their 72 virgins.
Correction: the riots are likely to take place in blue state cities whose citizens are mostly disarmed already.
Islamofascists who try to pull this stunt in a red state filled with well-armed citizens are going to win express tickets to their 72 virgins.
Now that's what I call a sophisticated, advanced, enlightened, country.
So far as the dark ages go.
NOTE: A 2.6 to 1.0 increase is 'relatively calm'.......suggest the remaining europeans remain home on a full or dark moon, Islamic holidays, and any other day ending in "y".
Qu'est-ce que fait Napoléon Bonaparte?
Une boufée de la mitraille.
I'm waiting... with eighteen weapons and 4,000+ rounds of ammo.
Thank God for the Second Amendment. We may be called upon to use its protection as a militia.
A whiff of grapeshot.
Not any time soon. The last thing the French want is responsible outsiders looking over their shoulders.
So rest easy back there in your mom's closet. You'll be safe.
Why do you find it necessary to demean other FReepers that have a different opinion than your own? Does it make you feel big and mature?
The title still reads like BBC...pathetic
<< W just proclaimed it as a peaceful "faith" a couple of days ago celebrating the end of ramadan. >>
The same feller, not having learned from his feckless father that deceiving your political base has consequences and a price tag, also rehabilitated the ghastly recidivist treasonous, career co-serially rapist Cli'tons and incites, encourages and facilitates the criminal alien invasion that corrupts our feral gummint, bemanures our sovereign borders and Rule of Law, destroys our nation's hospitals, criminal justice system and culture and has made our language second class in huge areas of our country.
So, seeing you apparently believe his every word, will you soon be moving to New York to support the Arkansas grifters -- or to France to escape W's soon-to-be-fifty-million third world criminal aliens?
BUMPping
Europe's gone. RIP.
Have they given the gendarmerie REAL bullets yet?
Enough is enough!
You've misinterpreted what I've said. There is nothing demeaning about telling frightened children that the adults will protect them.
Nice editorializing there skank.
I believe you. Until about five years ago I was too busy working to really notice the thorough dishonesty of the msm and fully understand this situation.
See someone setting a fire, shoot them.
Are you drunk?
BTW, I moved FROM NY when Hillary was elected Senator of NY. Further, I've posted more anti Clinton images than any other FReeper. If you weren't so boozed up and hungover you may have seen them.
Care to see a few?
And you have grammatical errors on your silly lettuce page.
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