Sarkozy: Paris riots 'unacceptable'

CNN ^ | Nov. 28, 2007

[felisberto]

PARIS, France (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that rioters who shot at police would be brought to justice and called the violence that rocked Paris suburbs "absolutely unacceptable."

Armed masked police patrol the streets of Villiers-le-Bel Tuesday night.

1 of 2 It was the first time Sarkozy, who had just returned from China, entered the fray since the rioting broke out Sunday night.

The violence ebbed Tuesday night after police were deployed in force and quickly rounded up youths lobbing Molotov cocktails and setting cars ablaze.

The violence has drawn comparisons with riots that raged through suburbs nationwide in 2005, and has shown that anger still smolders in poor housing projects where many Arabs, blacks and other minorities live largely isolated from the rest of society.

"We will find the shooters," and they will "be brought to account before justice," Sarkozy said after meeting with a wounded police captain hospitalized in Eaubonne north of Paris.

The violence erupted Sunday after the deaths of two minority teens whose motorscooter collided with a police car in Villiers-le-Bel, a blue-collar town on Paris' northern edge.

[businessprofessor]

It is easy to imagine. I can see destruction of property, random violence, rape, racial epithets, Mexican flags, and Spanish graffitti. I can see many rats and rinos encouraging and justifying the rampage. I can see many offers of amnesty, welfare, racial preferences, bilingual education, and reparations to appease the angry mob. The only thing that I cannot see is someone who will crack down and enforce the law.

[redpoll]

>>>>anger still smolders in poor housing projects where many Arabs, blacks and other minorities live largely isolated from the rest of society<<<<

The isolation is by choice. The writer is a moron.

[sheik yerbouty]

Put the Foreign Legion on the rioters.

[sheik yerbouty]

People in LA have more respect for automobiles..

[ashtanga]

Los Angeles? I live in a small town in South Carolina, and there are “Latino” (read criminal alien) strongholds throughout parts of the city. To be fair, they may be safe, and the folks therein may be saintly, but I would not want to sniff around to give you the straight skinny.