Posted on 11/05/2005 7:48:42 AM PST by Eurotwit
AUBERVILLIERS, France - Marauding youths torched nearly 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France, police said Saturday. Authorities arrested more than 250 people overnight — a sweep unprecedented since the unrest began.
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For the first time, authorities used a helicopter to chase down youths armed with gasoline bombs who raced from arson attack to arson attack, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said.
The violence, which was concentrated in neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations but has since spread, has forced France to address the simmering anger of its suburbs, where immigrants and their French-born children live on the margins of society.
With 897 vehicles destroyed by daybreak Saturday, it was the worst one-day toll since unrest broke out after the Oct. 27 accidental electrocution of two teenagers who believed police were chasing them. Five hundred cars were burned a night earlier.
In a particularly malevolent turn, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project, pelting rescuers with rocks and torching the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.
A nursery school was badly burned in Acheres, west of Paris.
The town had previously escaped the violence, the worst rioting in at least a decade in France. Some residents demanded that the army be deployed, or that citizens band together to protect their neighborhoods. At the school gate, Mayor Alain Outreman tried to calm tempers.
"We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere."
Unrest, mainly arson, was reported in the northern city of Lille, in Toulouse in the southwest and in the Normandy city of Rouen. It was the second night that troubles spread beyond the difficult Paris suburbs.
In Suresnes, a normally calm town just west of the capital, 44 cars were burned in a lot.
On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people took part in a silent march in one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois. One banner read: "No to violence."
Police detained 258 people overnight, almost all in the Paris region, and dozens of them will be prosecuted, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said after a government crisis meeting.
"Violence penalizes those who live in the toughest conditions," he said. "Violence is not the solution."
Most attacks have been in towns with low-income housing projects, areas marked by high unemployment, crime and despair. But in a new development, gangs have left their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with fewer police, spreading the violence.
Police deployed overnight in smaller, more mobile teams to chase rioters getting around in cars and on motorcycles, said Hamon, the police spokesman.
There appeared to be no coordination among gangs in different areas, Hamon said. Within gangs, however, youths communicated by cell phone text messages or e-mails and warned each other about police, he said.
Anger against police was fanned days ago when a tear gas bomb exploded in a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris — the same surburb where the youths were electrocuted. Youths suspected a police operation, but Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met Saturday with the head of the Paris mosque and denied that police were to blame.
The persistence of the violence prompted the American and Russian governments to advise citizens visiting Paris to steer clear of the suburbs.
In Torcy, east of the capital, looters set fire to a youth center and a police station, which were gutted, city hall said. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue in Pierrefitte, northwest of Paris.
A police officer at the Interior Ministry operations center said bullets were fired into a vandalized bus in Sarcelles, north of Paris.
Firefighters battled a furious blaze at a carpet warehouse in Aubervilliers, on the northern edge of Paris.
Now that's just plain mean.
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If they try this nonsense in the U.S.A. there will be blood in the streets, theirs!
I am sick of these roaches. Send them home, all of them, and biuld a fence around them. They refuse to assimilate, that is their problem, not mine.
Brilliant idea! Call in the UN! Blue helmeted African perverts patrolling outside the ghettoes of Paris and diddling the French children whenever they get the chance.
Whew. Talk about just desserts.
I still say that shooting dead as door-nails a couple thousand rioters and daring the rest to continue rioting should be next.
It's worth a try.
Perfect time to use the Foreign Legion. The government can say no Frenchmen were used in ending the insurrection. The entire government is looking for cover anyway, so there it is.
Helicopters won't stop them unless they use gunships. Will stop them the first night in use.
Speaking of IDIOTS...
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AR0AVN3PVKM1DQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/05/wparis05.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/05/ixworld.html
The parents lost control a long time ago. And the
Mayor admits HIS own kid is out there in the gangs?
Some family values these muslim parents taught their kids!
To quote a scene from Pee Wee Herman's big Adventure:
"I say we Hang Em, then we kill em!"
.....With 897 vehicles destroyed by daybreak Saturday.....
Using a play from the Vietnam playbook, the AP is reporting the war by concentrating on the Body Count except in France they are counting BURNED CHASSIS.
When it reaches a thousand later today France is lost.
I pray for France and all poor souls deceived by the darkness and on the wrong path to turn to the Light of love in Christ Jesus.
And if that doesn't take, what you said.
---French high school students were having a protest in downtown Paris...
Maurading gangs of "angry youth" attacked them..
One quote was from the "angry youth" was something like this:
"These pathic small white people deserves a beating"---
In Paris in the eighties we were warned that the Metro was a place where people were often mugged by gangs of "turks". We were soldiers on leave. Our attitude was that if these "turks" attacked any of us it would be the last mistake they made for quite awhile.
Are the chickens roosting for the French Socialists? Calling Ward Churchill ....
.....President Bush should offer France some counterinsurgency teams ........
NO BLOOD FOR FROG LEGS!! NO BLOOD FOR FROG LEGS!!!
Didn't you kill your wife? (screen name) Still looking for the one-armed man?
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