Posted on 03/30/2007 10:48:25 PM PDT by Enfant Terrible
Slightly edited Google translation of the original French
Conservative French Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday evening accused rivals Ségolène Royal (socialist) and Francois Bayrou (centrist) of being "on the side of the rioters”, shortly after the violent incidents violent at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. “When I think that two candidates in the presidential election dared to take the defense of an individual known for 22 offences, who is allowed to defraud and not to pay his ticket in the train, who, once challenged, allows himself to strike civil servants who were only doing just their work with honesty and in all legality, who starts a riot with hooligans who wreck a station, who smash bus shelters!."
"Those who take the side of the rioters and the defrauders do not render them a service. They are not even generous because it is not to render service to a minority when you let people believe that in French democracy anything is permitted”, continued the candidate. “It is necessary to impose rules, it is necessary to impose laws, we need authority and we need respect”, added the ex-minister of the interior. “And now things are clear: the authority and the respect are on our side, while disrespect and support for the delinquency are on the other side!”
The president of the UMP [...] called upon journalists "not to call these hooligans 'youths', because 'youths' have nothing to do with this minority of hooligans”...
"Reports say that the hooligans who smashed the Gare du Nord train station were shouting my name. They are right. They do not regard me as a friend. I confirm: I am not their friend”, added the candidate of UMP to the Elysee.
(Excerpt) Read more at lemonde.fr ...
Earlier commentary:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/french_riots.htm
They shout and punch like hooligans,
As they burn a car, or fifty.
Mais oui! They are Les Mooligans.
And way, way short of nifty.
Go Sarko!
Sarko! Sarko! Sarko!
Sarko rocks.
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