Demonstrators lie on the road after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, France's newly-elected president, in Paris, May 6, 2007. Sarkozy defeated Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal on Sunday. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)
Posted on 05/06/2007 3:09:37 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Riot police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters gathered in central Paris today to demonstrate against the presidential election victory of right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy, an AFP journalist said.
The clashes took place on the Place de la Bastille where about 5,000 supporters of the defeated Socialist candidate Segolene Royal had gone to await the election results.
Up to 300 rioters, some of whom were masked, made running attacks on riot police who took up positions at the entrance to boulevards leading onto the square.
Earlier a small crowd of protesters, brandishing black and red anarchist flags, set fire to an effigy of Sarkozy in the square before tearing it limb from limb and then stamping on it.
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Rioting in Paris? No. Really? But I thought they were more civilized than we...
Wonder if anyone noticed? Or was it just another day in Paris?
Well, I guess the French Hillary didn’t get in. One can only hope that the Dems and Anarchists don’t start something here when they get disappointed, because unlike the French, we know how to rodeo.
Not likely, as it didn’t happen in 2000. And especially if liberals expect to lose (and if Hitlery is the nominee, few liberals think she will win).
It takes less effort to kill a two-ton monster than an eight-ton monster.
Have you noticed how the libs have stopped bashing Ohio now that they voted “correctly” in ‘06?
Only 34 cars got torched?! Those were probably the last 34 cars in Paris! Sacre Bleu!
When I lived in Germany, they called them "pommes frittes"
Hard to explain but, they pronounced every letter, and so it was quite un-French like.
"Pohm Free", sounds a lot different than "POMS FRITZ" but it is tough to explain the distinction out here.
Demonstrators lie on the road after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, France's newly-elected president, in Paris, May 6, 2007. Sarkozy defeated Socialist Party candidate Segolene Royal on Sunday. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)
“Please, you folks who think this guy is some conservative champion are fooling yourselves. He is just another lefty, just not as left as the other A-hole.”
That’s right, because there aren’t any real conservatives in France. But he’s conservative by French standards. Think low. Lower. Lower. C’mon you can think lower, can’t you? No? Probably because you are American. At least he didn’t say the US has a “duty not to create obstacles in the struggle against global warming.”
yes. If the left understood irony, they wouldn’t be leftists.
In Schwaebia, they called ‘em “Pomm Fritz.”
I wonder if Nancy called to console her..(no I don't) ;-)
French socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal reacts in a car as she leaves her campaign headquarters in Paris, Sunday May 6, 2007. Energized French voters elected reform-minded Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president on Sunday by a comfortable winning margin. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Supporters of France's newly-elected President Nicolas Sarkozy celebrate on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, May 6, 2007. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE)
Considering the French battle history, we ought to be thankful </sarcasm?>
“As bad as Gore and his supporters behaved in 2000, they never resorted to that.”
Although there were MANY on the left that called for it...
They would have done it IF they could have gotten away with it. It isn’t that they didn’t want to. Even in our most liberal areas, US cops still know how to give a good hippie beatdown.
Despite the fact that Ohio has lots of evidence of MASSIVE Democrat Voter fraud, and numerous convictions for it?
Facts are just Inconvenient truths for Liberals to ignore when it suits them...
Orwell described it perfectly as the Memory Hole, and NewSpeak...
When does Sarkozy actually take office?
And her map looks suspiciously like Ohio.
Gore tried to SUE to overthrow an election!! I would rather have cars overturned than an election.
Can we send in the Ohio national guard?
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