Posted on 11/04/2005 7:32:13 AM PST by Syco
Groups of youths hit Paris' riot-shaken suburbs with waves of arson attacks, torching hundreds of cars, as unrest entered its second week Friday and spread to other towns in France.
In the eastern city of Dijon, teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood set fire to five cars, said Paul Ronciere, the region's top government official.
Overnight in the Paris region, 420 cars were set ablaze, up from previous nights, the Interior Ministry said... The unrest was led by "very numerous small and highly mobile groups," with arson attacks that destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings, including three sprawling warehouses.
Car torchings are a daily fact of life in France's tough suburbs, with thousands burned each month, police say. Police intelligence has recorded nearly 70,000 incidents of urban violence this year, including attacks on police and rescue services, arson, throwing projectiles, clashes between gangs, joy-riding and property destruction, Le Monde reported.
Many of the riotous youths are the French-born children of immigrant parents. The unrest has laid bare discontent simmering in suburbs and among immigrant families who feel trapped by poverty, unemployment, and poor education.
Youths fired buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, east of Paris, and a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue in Stains to the north where a city bus was torched and a school classroom partially burned, Cordet said.
In Trappes, to the west, 27 buses were incinerated. But the unrest was scaled back from the sometimes-ferocious rioting of previous nights, when bullets were fired at police and firefighters without causing injuries.
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I think Solution #3 is already underway. There are already some Muslim neighborhoods where even the police refuse to go, and there are virtually no city services there because other city employees are too afraid to enter them. I think you're right on the likelihood of the French simply expanding and making official the establishment of a separate "Muslim zone."
Sadly, I think that even if they were inclined to respond as in your Solution #2, there'd be so much international (read EU and Muslim countries) pressure on them that they wouldn't be able to do it effectively. I've already seen whining in the US press, which is barely covering the incidents, to the effect that it is all the fault of the French for not being nicer to their "immigrant" population.
Some immigrants. Invading army would be more like it, and to make matters worse, the invading army is being funded almost entirely, from cradle to the grave, by the French taxpayer.
Me too, but I know I shouldn't. In the end it affects us all.
We shall surrender on the beaches. We shall surrender on the landing grounds. We shall surrender in the fields, and in the streets, we shall surrender in the hills. We shall never fight!
Me too. I wish it wasn't Islamo-Fascists doing it, because they threaten more than just France. But I must admit at some satisfaction that the country that has fostered so much terror on the African continent (read up on French complicity in the Rwandan holocaust) is finally having those chickens coming home to roost. And yet, they have the audacity to lecture us on racism. They wrote the book on it.
"Groups of Youths" and "Mobile Groups" . . . . LMAO. Don't mention the fact that they're virtually all MUSLIMS, lest they attack your reporting facility!
I think we're just happy to finally see the end of hypocritical French posturing on this particular issue.
In a 12-paragraph AP story that was published in this morning's Sacramento Bee, any reference to Muslim/Arab/Ramadan/etc. does not appear until the 10th paragraph. I truly do not understand this.
Does France still have a prison on French Guiana ?
Can it finally be said that the French are finally getting theirs??????
Oh, the irony.....The French allowing global warming and killing us all.....
I don't consider Fox a member of the MSM. As far as the Beeb goes, not MSM in the USA. It is surprising though. Good for them. For once.
Bingo!
Le frogs are still allowed to own guns, restricted, but they still have them.
Remeber Bosnia? That appears to be inevitable for parts of Europe, within 10 yrs i would think. Theyll have to carve a couple Albanias out of Europe,especially France, sooner or later.
Thankfully Eastern European countries didn't absorb Muslims like their western counterparts did. Poland may end up being the last bastion of Western civilization in Europe.
I was there in 94 and even then it was overtaking NYC in grafitti. Lot's of great architechture and museums(the Musee D'Orsay the best with it's Van Gogh's) but the people were rude.
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