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372 French cars torched over "calm" New Year
China Daily ^ | 2008-01-01

Posted on 01/01/2008 9:34:24 AM PST by bahblahbah

PARIS - Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as "relatively calm".

Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and the image of vehicles in flames in poor suburbs became symbolic of riots in 2005 when angry youths set fire to thousands of cars.

There is usually an increase in the number of cars torched on New Year's Eve compared to other days of the year.

"The night was relatively calm, without notable incident, there were very few direct clashes with the security forces," said a spokesman for the national police.

At 0500 GMT, the Interior Ministry said 372 vehicles had been burned -- 144 in the Paris region and 228 in the rest of France. That was down from 397 last New Year's Eve.

At the height of the 2005 riots as many as 1,400 cars were attacked in overnight violence. In protests over President Nicolas Sarkozy election last May, demonstrators set fire to 730 vehicles.

Police had stepped up their presence on French streets in anticipation of the year-end celebrations and the sale of petrol in cans was banned in some places.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; islam; islamicviolence; muslims; muslimviolence; parisriots; riots; urbanbarbarians
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To: Gritty

Relatives of mine have visited the infamous banlieues, also known as zones urbaines sensibles (”sensitive urban zones”). They told me that the alienation from the rest of the France & the hatred for all things French & white is so thick you can cut it with a machete.

Residents resent any outsider entering their zone for whatever purpose, even ambulances. My relatives could have easily faced a dangerous mob if they didn’t have friends there & if they were white.

The black areas are the most dangerous of all & not being black, they had no access. We can only imagine.


41 posted on 01/01/2008 10:17:02 AM PST by forkinsocket
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To: Popman

Maybe the Albigensians or the Knights Templar, you think???


42 posted on 01/01/2008 10:17:39 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
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To: bahblahbah
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43 posted on 01/01/2008 10:25:40 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: bahblahbah
From the text.

Paris. Vandals torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Near.....

It has been stated via Wikipedia this. It was in France over two hundred years ago, senseless destruction by Frenchmen of historical artifacts, was dubbed "Vandalism" or similiar. The original Vandals were a Germanic tribe who sacked mighty Rome about 410 AD.

It seems one can always trust the French- to give someone else a bad name. Calling a spade a spade ain't in their culture. Yep, blame them Germans all the time. LOL

44 posted on 01/01/2008 10:27:22 AM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why do French authorities put up with this ?

In case this isn't a rhetorical question(!), it's partly because they're afraid of the 30 million unassimilated, violent, and anti-western Muslims in their country. In a jaw-dropping refusal to consider the history of tyrants in Europe, they insist on believing that appeasement will make the Islamofascists calm down and go home.

It's also, according to Mark Steyn, because of the stubborn adherence of the political class to the vision of a pan-continental Eutopia that was supposed to insure that Europe would never again succumb to militant nationalism, like Naziism. That post-national world view has simultaneously made them unwilling to defend their own country, and blinded them to the rising threat of Islamofascism.

45 posted on 01/01/2008 10:39:14 AM PST by American Quilter (On FDR: "A chameleon on plaid. " - Herbert Hoover)
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To: Popman
In the Islamic community they also treat there young males very similar. They pretty much do what they want without consequences until they reach the age of accountability.

That's interesting--I hadn't heard this before.

46 posted on 01/01/2008 10:42:07 AM PST by American Quilter (On FDR: "A chameleon on plaid. " - Herbert Hoover)
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To: Bon mots

They should look this guy up — he had the right idea —

“Then appeared the strong man, Napoleon Buonaparte, “le petit caporal.” He settled the last rising of the Paris mob with his “whiff of grape-shot” (October 5, 1795). “


47 posted on 01/01/2008 10:42:14 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
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To: melancholy
You may be astonished how some European countries could turn on a dime, disregard/suspend their Constitutions in "extraordinary circumstances"!

I'd like to see that. Starting today.

48 posted on 01/01/2008 10:43:41 AM PST by American Quilter (On FDR: "A chameleon on plaid. " - Herbert Hoover)
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49 posted on 01/01/2008 10:57:08 AM PST by Liberty2007 (I AM AWESOME , The best thing on Talk radio----Michael Savage)
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To: Bon mots
Looks like a bunch of European Anglo “Disenfranchised youths” to me.

The media is pretty incredible. After 911, we had the “Religion of Peace” and in France you have “Disenfranchised youths.”

50 posted on 01/01/2008 10:57:45 AM PST by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: bahblahbah

islamism


51 posted on 01/01/2008 10:59:17 AM PST by onedoug
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To: American Quilter
I'd like to see that. Starting today.

The UK "almost" turned after the tube bombings and threatened to deport anybody that incited violence (sheikhs and their ilk) and tightened their immigration policies. Something we can't do here without prolonged BS and resistance from the Administration, the Left and active judges! Quite a lovely combination, isn’t it?

Sheikh Bakri was one that makes his home now in Lebanon after being forbidden from residing in the UK.

I didn't follow up on the "outcry" of racism and lefty objections there, sorry!

52 posted on 01/01/2008 11:54:32 AM PST by melancholy (Beware of Ho Chi Minh's offspring, Ho She Marx , invading the WH.)
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To: melancholy

I would certainly hate to see Great Britain, with its glorious history, become a Muslim nation. I hope the Brits will throw off the shackles of socialism and start to reclaim their lovely country.


53 posted on 01/01/2008 12:50:32 PM PST by American Quilter (On FDR: "A chameleon on plaid. " - Herbert Hoover)
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To: bahblahbah

bump


54 posted on 01/01/2008 12:56:27 PM PST by VOA
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