[LibertyRocks]

"But quickly this tragic event prompted a violent group to attack police with baseball bats and molotov cocktails as young bystanders watched passively, like spectators to the 'riot show'," said Comte.

He linked the latest outbreak to the 2005 suburban riots, France's worst unrest in decades, when poor immigrant-heavy areas around Paris and other major cities exploded into three weeks of violence. "

We must NEVER mention that these "immigrants" are MUSLIMS!!! That would be "racist" wouldn't it? No, no... they are FRENCH youths, and this has NOTHING to do with harabist actions!

(Just FYI: Jihad is an honorable term - harabist is the correct term - waging terrorism (barbarism, piracy) in an unlawful war - why compliment them with the other term...)

It will be interesting to see how Sarkozy handles these outbreaks of violence vs. what happened last time in 2005 under the appeaser Chirac...

[LibertyRocks]

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