Posted on 11/07/2005 2:44:49 AM PST by Dane
French police made 395 arrests last night as riots intensified for the 11th consecutive night, with violence and fire engulfing towns from the North to the Mediterranean.
In the impoverished suburbs and satellite towns around Paris, where the unrest began on October 27, churches, schools and warehouses were set alight. At least 1,408 vehicles were destroyed, many more than on previous nights, and the random attacks have spread into the heart of the city.
In Grigny, south of the capital, a gang of around 200 youths are reported to have lured police into a housing estate before opening fire with hunting rifles. At least 30 officers were injured, two seriously with lead pellets in the legs and neck.
Riots broke out in beacons of disaffection across the country from Lille, on the border with Belgium, to Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast. In Toulouse, police used tear gas to disperse a mob. Cars were set alight on the streets of Nantes, Orleans, Rennes and Rouen, and youths in St Etienne forced passengers off a bus before burning it. Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete.
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In Strasbourg, youths stole a car and rammed it into a housing project, setting the vehicle and the building on fire. "We’ll stop when Sarkozy steps down," the defiant 17-year-old driver told an Associated Press reporter.
Police are calling for a night-time curfew in affected areas and some senior officers have demanded that troops are brought on to the streets.
Michel Gaudin, France's most senior police officer, said today: "We are witnessing a sort of shock wave that is spreading across the country."
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Do the French really believe Al Queda is not watching these events, licking their bloody chops?
Don't know if anybody else caught this one, but a rifle wouldn't leave a cop wounded with pellet injuries that's a shottie. I thought the commie French had a lot of gun control in their country? What do the French have to hunt, anyway? Frogs?
Okay, let me put another wrinkle in your connundrum...The French and the Iraqi Republican Guard...who surrenders to whom?
BTW, may I send a private mail?
Putin: "Chiracky buddy, whassup?? Your pre-war rhetoric looks like bad borscht soup! Word???? ha ha.------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chirac: "Hey mon frere Putin, don't be laughing, next week your 'burbs will be burning by the Checkies." ha ha.------------------------------------------------------------- Schroeder: "Jou guys have Maaajer Problems!!! ha ha.
They will die quicker over here...
It makes people wonder if he's really French at all
Thanks GW, perfect conscise political description of Sarkozy.
Yes, get worried. As usual, and regardless of history, it will be the US' job to clean up the mess - and only when it gets really really messy.
Al Qaeda and other islmaic terrorist organizations like the Algerian "Al Jammaa Al Musalaha Al Islamyia" (The islamic armed group) already have plans to commit terrorist acts in France and all over Europe. These riots will provide a lot of new recruits for them.
Of course you may send me a private email LOL
Makes total sense if you think about it.
Does not....looks like they better get this thing over with now & have a small controlled fire, then wait severeal years where it turns into the Yellowstone fire of the late 80s.
Smuggled weapons are going to get to France now or later.
"I must admit that at first I enjoyed this. I wanted the French to get thumped for betraying us these last few years, and also as come uppance given that I disagree with ALL their social policies.
However, I'm now starting to get worried. I was sure the old power would come out and defend itself. But what if there's really nothing left? What if they're just broken cowards?
Now I'm not having such a good feeling. I saw those 1000 silent marchers and I saw pussies and weaklings, more fearful that the danishes might not be fresh this morning than that their country is dead. This will change the Western World."
BTTT
The police are "calling for a curfew"??? Heck, even the idiots in Louisiana knew enough to impose a curfew.
Can we stop this thing? Can we prevent WWIII or Holocaust II?
No
We did not learn from history. The left thought the only way to take over was to weaken Christianity, they attacked it in every way they could think of, including immigration, never looking back at what happened historically when islamic people came into a country.
We can still deal with the problem, but we won't, because it would take a brutal determination to expel them. So we will all wait until the populations in each country reach the level that they feel emboldened enough to take over.....Some of these countries will fight and some are to weak willed and will surrender.
The problem is that this is a clash of two cultures that refuse to bathe.
We did not learn from history...
A liberal on a message board scolded me earlier since we do not appreciate the French sacrifice during the Rev. War.
I told the dolt to stick to current events.
Liberals and Utopians do need to stick to current events if there is any hope for them.
and helps to keep Air America broadcasting too!
There is only one solution to this.
Everyone know that when Moslems riot and terrorise it is only because of one thing.
There must be a Palestinian State immediately, with Paris- where Mohammed and his horse stopped to enjoy a croissant on their night journey- as it's capital.
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