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Paris Riots Hit Night 10
Fox News ^ | November 5, 2005 | Fox News

Posted on 11/05/2005 7:52:35 PM PST by JBGUSA

ACHERES, France — Riots that started in Paris' lower-class suburbs and resulted in 250 arrests of predominantly Muslim youths Saturday moved into the capital of France early Sunday morning.

By 1 a.m., a spokesman for the national police reported 13 vehicles torched in the capital, and 607 vehicles burnt overall during the 10th straight night of rioting. Totals are expected to rise by morning.

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The violence — originally concentrated in neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large immigrant populations — is forcing France (search) to confront anger long-simmering in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with unemployment, poor housing, racial discrimination, crime and a lack of opportunity.

Youths armed with gasoline bombs lit vehicles, a nursery school and other targets on fire as they made their way through higher-class towns and to the capital.

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In quiet Acheres, on the edge of the St. Germain forest west of the capital, arsonists burned a nursery school, where part of the roof caved in, and about a dozen cars in four attacks over an hour that the mayor said seemed "perfectly organized."

Children's photos clung to the blackened walls, and melted plastic toys littered the floor. Residents gathered at the school gate demanded that the army be deployed or suggested that citizens band together to protect their neighborhoods.

Mayor Alain Outreman (search) tried to cool tempers.

"We are not going to start militias," he said. "You would have to be everywhere."

In one particularly malevolent attack, youths in the eastern Paris suburb of Meaux (search) prevented paramedics from evacuating a sick person from a housing project. They pelted rescuers with rocks, then torched the awaiting ambulance, an Interior Ministry official said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cheeseeating; france; frenchmuslims; muslims; ouihad; parisriots; riots; surrendermonkeys
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To: sourcery

this is not terrorism, its an insurrection.

when you start to see muslim suicide bombers heading out into the paris subways or hopping on buses filled with tourists, then it will have entered the "terror" phase.


41 posted on 11/05/2005 8:11:47 PM PST by oceanview
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To: notfornothing

If I thought the French would learn a lesson from this, I'd feel differently. But they won't so I don't.


42 posted on 11/05/2005 8:11:57 PM PST by zook
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To: JBGUSA

For 1000 years Europe carved itself up in wars. They are not a mellow, idyllic, cultured oasis they like to hold themselves out as. The Europeans will not let themselves go down the drain into a Eurabian existence.

I disagree. Your assessment may have been true at the turn of the century, but not now. The two brutal world wars of the last century have resulted in a pacified Europe. The scourge of socialism and secularism have eaten away at the European soul. The last nail in the coffin is political correctness and guilt from imagined colonial crimes. This attitude is ingrained in Euorpean whites to an astoishing degree (of course, it doesn't stop them from being anti-Semetic). Take these three together and you have a Europe that is incapable of direct, effective action.


43 posted on 11/05/2005 8:13:00 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Thunder90

"Who wants to bet that France will blame the rioting on Bush..."

Forget the French; you'll hear it from Democrat leaders in a day or so.


44 posted on 11/05/2005 8:13:19 PM PST by zook
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To: zook

absolutely true. anyone check DU?


45 posted on 11/05/2005 8:14:03 PM PST by oceanview
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To: JBGUSA

I am really starting to get worried. There is no sign of this slowing down, in fact, every night things are getting worse. The French government is showing how weak they are right now- and we all know how terrorists love to exploit a nation's weakness.

Is it possible for this entire thing to erupt in Muslim communities all over Europe?


46 posted on 11/05/2005 8:14:34 PM PST by KCRW
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To: rbg81

good post.


47 posted on 11/05/2005 8:14:56 PM PST by oceanview
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To: JBGUSA

Time for the French to "take out the trash."


48 posted on 11/05/2005 8:14:58 PM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: JBGUSA

The difference is that the Jews didn't fight back. The French can be bloodthirsty bastards, though (see French Revolution...far bloodier than our own), so let's hope that some of that dormant tendency to violence begins to stir again. As much as I detest the French, the Muzzies are far worse in every way. Time for Crusades II.


49 posted on 11/05/2005 8:15:30 PM PST by clintonh8r (Civil War II. Are you ready?)
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To: KCRW

I imagine Holland is on edge right now.


50 posted on 11/05/2005 8:16:13 PM PST by oceanview
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To: King Prout; Kindly Old Doc Tsu

Ping.


51 posted on 11/05/2005 8:16:17 PM PST by Alice au Wonderland (A Liberal: Someone whose money or property isn't on the line yet. ---Old Doc Tsu)
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To: NewMediaFan
It's amazing that no one has been killed yet.

Would we hear about it if there were?

52 posted on 11/05/2005 8:17:23 PM PST by papertyger
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To: oceanview

"when you start to see muslim suicide bombers heading out into the paris subways or hopping on buses filled with tourists, then it will have entered the "terror" phase."

Does a flamethrower count? We were informed of a news report that a flamethrower was used to set cars on fire in downtown Paris tonight.


53 posted on 11/05/2005 8:19:39 PM PST by conservativepoet
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To: JBGUSA

Does the "vehicles burnt" scorecard strike anyone as a little odd???


54 posted on 11/05/2005 8:20:00 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: JBGUSA

The title you created has been changed to the published original title. To avoid duplication please do not alter titles. Thanks.


55 posted on 11/05/2005 8:20:16 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: JBGUSA
Europe often makes me think of the movie "Zardoz"-- wasn't much of a hit but left an impression on me (well, there was Sean Connery...)

The movie featured an elite little cadre of effete, sterile and impotent weaklings. Very Euro.

Europeans fancy they have an ideology of sophisticated pacifism--they've just been selectively breeding for cowardice.

56 posted on 11/05/2005 8:20:41 PM PST by Mamzelle (.)
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To: JerseyHighlander; conservativepoet; pbrown; fallujah-nuker; A message; TaxesR2High; ...
France on Fire Ping.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516586/posts?page=19 Post to be on off.
57 posted on 11/05/2005 8:20:49 PM PST by HHKrepublican_2 (you cant spell liberal without an L an I and an E...If the first ammendment doesnt work, use the 2nd)
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To: jaguaretype
MY greatest fear ... is that it may happen yet here in the USA.

With the liberal nature of many of our very own laws, they might do that here.
58 posted on 11/05/2005 8:21:14 PM PST by Smarti Pants (~This American Patriot will never forget !!!~)
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To: Prolifeconservative

Ahh man, not another one.


59 posted on 11/05/2005 8:21:18 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: NewMediaFan

"It's amazing that no one has been killed yet."

Not true. Fewer than 2 dozen as of now, but not true.


60 posted on 11/05/2005 8:21:48 PM PST by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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