Posted on 06/15/2008 9:43:47 PM PDT by Coffee200am
Dozens of youths and police have clashed in northern France, leaving nine people injured.
Around 60 cars went up in flames as youths went on a rampage in the streets of Vitry-le-Francois, some 200 kilometres north of the capital Paris.
The youths, armed with baseball bats and Molotov cocktails, were only scattered after dozens of security forces quelled the unrest.
The scuffles broke out after a young man was murdered on Saturday evening.
Courtesy of the WayBackMachine - here is a sampling of the coverage from the Paris Riots of 2005 from my old blog in case anyone is interested...
http://web.archive.org/web/20060505072848/sweetliberty.alfablog.com/post/1509/paris_riots/parisdenmarkriots.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20060430182915/sweetliberty.alfablog.com/post/1513/paris_riots/8thnight.html
(Some of the links on these pages do work, depending on whether they are archived or not...)
And, here is FReeper Backhoe’s thread “Is Paris Burning” containing numerous links to the coverage here at FR and elsewhere...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1513937/posts?page=58
French Summer Car-B-Cue Ping
I’m surprised there are any cars left in France that haven’t already been torched. They need to send the Army in and kill all of the trouble makers, and deport their families back to some desert in the Middle East.
Make a mental note: so-called journalism at its worst.
The essential ingredient in the story is not stated completely or clearly.
Why should murders cause widespread riots? Did the 60 torched cars cause the murders?
What?
Time to hurry their emigration to the great beyond.
I would say it is something similar to the big riots that supposedly started when police were chasing a “youth”, and he tried to hide in a relay station and was electrocuted. Somehow the police were to blame. The police should have let whatever law he had broke pass. They should have known he would run and end up getting electrocuted.
OK then; the result of gang wars.
But still no mention of which gangs. For over 40 years now, the gangs have been almost entirely immigrants who march to a different drummer, and refuse to integrate into civilized society in any way. To say nothing of the old law of nature: don't work, don't eat and die. The socialist state is the "Great Enabler."
We may see this here if voters throw O!bama under the bus come November.
About time they fall back and mount the Gatling guns.
Oh my, is it that time of year already?
How time doth fly.
It’s already the Moon of the Autoflambe.
They appear north African. Doubt they are Christians.
Sure they aren’t just holding fireworks for Bastille Day?
Just another weekend in Paris.
Ah, you remember.
Just the two of us, on the balcony.
pouring gasolene on the flaming crowds.
Ah Romance.
Thank you, self-loathing liberal PC idiots the world over.
The French media is forbidden to take pictures of the youth riots. (No, I’m not joking). So you won’t see pictures of this. They still can report on it, I belive.
The Molotov cocktails like shooting stars...
I said, "Peel me a grape."
You said, "How 'bout a banana?"
sigh
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