[Cincinna]

I would imagine this is in addition to the CRS Riot Police.

[Duke Nukum]

Damn! What’s she going to do with 3,000 police? Can the internet even hold all that porn and spam about the porn?

Things I did not need to know.

[KJC1]

Please appease and placate the “youths” (cough) who have already caused mass destruction in the streets of France...vote for Segolene! Great platform there.

[Cincinna]

Thanks to the FReeper who sent me this picture

[EShellenberger]

Just think of all the euros they’d save if they’d just round up all the Islamists and retreaded communists!

[Diogenesis]

... no advance signs...

Are they insane? Paris is unsafe. Is THAT not a sign?

[Dumpster Baby]

The French are so emotional.

[Philistone]

How about Marseilles?

One of the problems that the French have is that very few cities have any local municiple police departments, and the few who do, like Nice, saw Paris take their guns away in ‘98.

The Gendarmes and the CRS are under-manned (and don’t really do anything anyways except ONCE the riots start).

[Cincinna]

NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS ::

PARTY ON THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE IF SARKOZY WINS

PARIS, May 5, 2007 (AFP) - Public celebrations will be held on the Place de la Concorde in central Paris if right-wing favourite Nicolas Sarkozy wins the presidential election Sunday, an aide to the candidate said Saturday.

French rock-star Johnny Hallyday and other show business supporters of Sarkozy will perform at what was described as a "great people's party".

The Place de la Concorde is a vast esplanade beside the river Seine at the end of the Champs-Elysees. It was famously the spot where King Louis XVI and hundreds of others were executed in the Revolution.

My comment: The Place de la Concorde is right in the center of Paris. On one corner stand the American Embassy, protected by the French police and CRS AND the US Military. On the other corner the magnificent Hotel de Crillon, The obelisk that Napoleon brought back from Egypt (the twin, Cleopatra's Needle, is in NY's Central Park) stands in the center.

This will be really something to see.

It will be livecast on many French websites. I will try and find the details and get them to you.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

You’ve been doing a fabulous job, keeping FR supplied with up-to-date info re: this crucial election. We readers owe you a big, collective “thank you!” ;)

[skinkinthegrass]

THANKS, for the posts. :D

[SunkenCiv]

right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy

I've begun to speculate that the phrase is part of a French party game -- each time it appears in a news report, everyone has to take a drink. Not that they weren't going to do that anyway...