Posted on 07/17/2010 8:13:21 AM PDT by Loyalist
GRENOBLE, France (AFP) -
Rioters exchanged gunfire with police in the French city of Grenoble early Saturday, setting fire to shops and cars after police shot dead a man accused of robbing a casino.
Youths torched between 50 and 60 cars in the southeastern French city, as well as construction equipment and two shops, while police said they made five arrests.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux was to visit the city Saturday afternoon, his ministry said.
The rioting started after a memorial service for 27-year-old Karim Boudouda, who died 24 hours earlier in a shootout with police after allegedly holding up the Uriage-les-Bains casino near Grenoble.
Shortly before midnight, a group of around 30 youths armed with baseball bats and iron bars attacked a tram in Boudouda's working class district of La Villeneuve and forced the passengers to get out.
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Casino was in Basel, I read. And one in Geneva was robbed too. Surely the Swiss have armed guards at the casinos?
No it's not. Pay closer attention. It's British speak for Pakistanis. France's problem comes mostly from Muslim Africans.
By French law, casinos are located only at natural water sources.
(Insert urinal joke).
Well, its not like any of em are gonna see it..
Duh!
Disrespect is not funny.
ROFLOL!! As the many freepers who know me readily understand...
Who’s disrespecting?
I’m merely pointing out that we do have an Amish Freeper;-)
I can’t believe it. I went to school for a while in Grenoble, and it was a proud and somewhat snobby city with very few foreigners when I lived there. Plenty of skiing tourists. How it has changed.
Reading about it here (French article) http://www.la-croix.com/article/index.jsp?docId=2432857&rubId=4076
I see that for a while, in the environs of Grenoble, people have been tortured and beat up for their bank cards, attacked for refusing to give a “Youth” a cigarette, or simply being attacked for being handicapped. Deaths due to a violent drug trade, and one 70-year-old killed for his wallet.
They say this type of thing has migrated from Paris and Lyon to virtually every city in the country. They mention the “very young youths” as being the cause, and the fact that they seem to live “segregated” by space and culture from the rest of France, but there must be some kind of unbreakable journalistic creed to disallow reporters from saying the M-word.
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