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.
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.
Maybe the Albigensians or the Knights Templar, you think???
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
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.
That's interesting--I hadn't heard this before.
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). “
I'd like to see that. Starting today.
The media is pretty incredible. After 911, we had the “Religion of Peace” and in France you have “Disenfranchised youths.”
islamism
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, isnt 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!
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.
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