Posted on 10/31/2005 1:33:39 PM PST by adamsjas
BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) -- French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy defended his tough crime policies on Monday after a fourth night of riots in a Paris suburb in which tear gas was fired into a mosque.
Sarkozy, addressing police officers, vowed to find how tear gas had been fired into the Muslim place of worship, an incident which had helped fuel the disturbances.
Youths hurled rocks and set fire to cars in the northeastern Clichy-sous-Bois suburb of the French capital, where many immigrants and poor families live in high-rise housing estates notorious for youth violence.
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French television said six police officers were hurt and 11 people arrested in violence partly fueled by the incident at the mosque. Sarkozy promised an inquiry.
"I am, of course, available to the imam of the Clichy mosque to let him have all the details in order to understand how and why a tear gas bomb was sent into this mosque," he told about 170 police officers at the prefecture.
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Gee, sounds as if Prince Charles, the irrelevant one, should drop in on Jacque on his way home - let Jacque know he doesn't appreciate the way the French are treating his muslim buddies. All Euro trash is slime......
Note to ze french...don't throw a smoke bomb into a hornet's nest.
Raid and a match work much better...and the hornets will not survive to come back and sting you.
I just meant the fact that he let the riots go on for four days. You're not from NY, I take it.
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Sixth Night of Riots and it appears worse by report:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/01/france.riots.ap/index.html
Incredible. 13 paragraphs before the mention Muslims.
This was all started by a couple of kids who were running from cops they thought were chasing them, so they hid in an power substation and got fried???!
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Even in France their riots are weak. At least American riots start over something a little more drastic, i.e. a high-on (R.King) assaulting cops and getting his a$$ kicked. Geesh.
This the same dismal neighborhoods one has to drive by, on the way to de Gaulle airport?
They can clean it up if they want to. They have all the troops they need. Frankly (no pun intended) I'd love to see France take a major turn to the Right. It would do them a lot of good (and us as well!).
The long overdue backlash has not even really begun. We are only seeing the first hints of it. Mark my words. I just pray that it remains properly tamed. History has a nasty way of, if not repeating, presenting its DNA.
They had quite a Nazi 5th column amongst native born Frenchmen. Thankfully, that is not the case versus the Islamonazis.
No, Chirac would get tough and negotiate a 'settlement' in which authorities have 48 hours to remove all art objects from the Louvre and store them in caves. The sharia-lovers would wail that this was not the destruction of all western civilization they are seeking, but the 'moderates' among them would explain that this was just a temporary way-station until all of infidel civilization can be annihilated. Chirac would give a pompous address to the public explaining how he had saved the day by only giving up the empty shells of Notre Dame and the Louvre.......
actually I am from NYC. But while I think very little of Dinkins who allowed what I perceive as a very controllable mob to run riot, I have more respect for Sarkozy and his much bigger less easily controlled problem. Sarkozy has cracked down more than anyone else in France.
From the article:
Laurent Fabius, a former Socialist prime minister and also a potential presidential candidate in 2007, mocked Sarkozy's frequent visits to areas such as Clichy.
"When he announces that he's going to visit such and such a commune or suburb every week, that's not how we resolve those problems," Fabius told Europe 1 radio.
"We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play the cowboy."
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Note the "cowboy" reference, an allusion to Sarkozy's law and order approach and a dig at the US too.
Repeat after me....Islam is a religion of peace!
Stop the illegal French occupation of the Holy Islamic city of Paris.
Morte to the Infidels!
:-)
The way the BBC blamed Beslon on the Russians and not on the Islamic terrorists...er...militants....er..rebels...er...miscontents...er armed boyscouts...er the holy people whom BBC hopes to worship one day...yup.
101- undocumented shoppers? gasp! =o)
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