They need one or two skirmishes to draw blood, big time and send a message that this behavior must stop immediately.
Posted on 11/27/2007 2:07:48 AM PST by Sub-Driver
77 Police Officers Hurt in Paris Riots AP By NICOLAS GARRIGA,Associated Press Writer AP - 38 minutes ago
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Rampaging youths rioted overnight in Paris' suburbs, hurling Molotov cocktails and setting fire to dozens of cars. At least 77 officers were injured and officers were fired at, a senior police union official said Tuesday.
The violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. Police were shot at and are facing "genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," Ribeiro said.
Some officers were hit by shotgun pellets, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said. She said there were six serious injuries, "people who notably were struck in the face and close to the eyes."
The riots were triggered by the deaths of two teens killed in a crash with a police patrol car on Sunday in Villiers-le-Bel, a town of public housing blocks home to a mix of Arab, black and white residents in Paris' northern suburbs.
Residents claimed that officers left the crash scene without helping the teens, whose motorbike collided with the car. Officials cast doubt on the claim, but the internal police oversight agency was investigating.
Youths first rioted Sunday and again overnight Monday to Tuesday, when the violence apparently got worse.
Police barricades were set on fire and youths threw stones and Molotov cocktails at officers, who retaliated with tear gas and rubber bullets. In Villiers-le-Bel and surrounding areas, youths set fire to 36 vehicles, the area's prefecture said.
Youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. A police union official said a round from a hunting rifle pierced the body armor of one officer who suffered a serious shoulder wound.
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Sounds like a quagmire to me. Hope we don’t have any US troops over there...
Youths were seen firing buckshot at police and reporters. A police union official said a round from a hunting rifle pierced the body armor of one officer who suffered a serious shoulder wound.
Rubber bullets in response to shotgun blasts and armour piercing bullets.....Something tells me Sarko will come down hard on this, or maybe my own wishful thinking....
FMCDH(BITS)
The riots were triggered by the deaths of two teens killed in a crash with a police patrol car on Sunday in Villiers-le-Bel, a town of public housing blocks home to a mix of Arab, black and white residents in Paris’ northern suburbs.
Residents claimed that officers left the crash scene without helping the teens, whose motorbike collided with the car. Officials cast doubt on the claim, but the internal police oversight agency was investigating.
Hmmmmmmm
They need one or two skirmishes to draw blood, big time and send a message that this behavior must stop immediately.
Your world makes sense to me.
Dispatch the surrender party before it’s too late!
I would imagine they had to run for their lives!
If they had not gotten away they probably would have been beaten to death, drug through he streets, Hung from a traffic lamp post and set afire.
This world is at war, the west just refuses to recognize it.
Does France have a military? Martial law might be the answer... before the monkeys surrender so that they can eat cheese.
Police were shot at and are facing “genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons,” Ribeiro said.
You are correct, truthguy: “youths” should read “muslim guerillas”
There is a certain logic to it. The French have adopted the Culture of Death and abort their children. The Muslims, only 10% of the population, do have the will to have children and so nearly half of the children are Muslim. That combined with immigration means the Muslims will inevitably seize Europe unless something changes.
Must be those pesky french Quaker youths again.
moose-slimes?
LLS
We do, tens of thousands of them, just laying around in graves
they earned saving and protecting frances sorry asses.
This is yet another opportunity for the new President to establish himself. Deploy the Army if these thugs are using weapons the police cant deal with. Crack some heads, make examples out of some of these mal contents and get this rioting over once and for all.
Excellent point.
“The violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. Police were shot at and are facing “genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons,” Ribeiro said.”
They got away with this behavior before and are now escalating their activities to see how far they can go. They need to be put down hard.
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