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France reacts to 'shockwave of riots'(Paris/France burns Live Thread Night #12)
Times of London ^ | 11/07/05 | Simon Freeman, Charles Bremner

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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KEYWORDS: france; frenchifada; frenchweasels; hoodlums; insurgency; leintifada; ouihad; parisintifada; parisriots; punks; thugs; uprising; wot; yoots; youths
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To: No Blue States

How come they don't riot in the daylight? Are they part vampire?


201 posted on 11/07/2005 8:33:23 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: polymuser

We'd have to charge them a pretty high premium.


202 posted on 11/07/2005 8:34:28 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: George W. Bush

>> It makes people wonder if he's really French at all. <<

He's not... He's Hungarian and Jewish. The Hungarians know that Socialism isn't just a plaything.


203 posted on 11/07/2005 8:34:49 AM PST by dangus
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To: Dane

Think how much tourist money they've lost!


204 posted on 11/07/2005 8:34:52 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: Chanticleer
Can we prevent WWIII or Holocaust II?

WWIII started some time ago. Although there were several early attacks on American interests by radical Islam, WWIII started on 9/11/01, during the tenure of an American president with the will, bravery and foresight to take the battle to the enemy in the enemy's heartland.

For that, President Bush has been vilified enormously here at home. I believe the American people will cave just as readily as the French. In 2008, instead of electing someone who will keep the hot war hot over there, we will elect an appeaser.

I don't believe we are any stronger or better than the French.

205 posted on 11/07/2005 8:35:44 AM PST by Wolfstar (Happy first birthday, Miss Beasley. Happy Anniversary President and Mrs. Bush.)
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To: George W. Bush

BMGROFLMAO!


206 posted on 11/07/2005 8:36:02 AM PST by tophat9000 ("Space for rent")
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To: olde north church
Okay, let me put another wrinkle in your connundrum...The French and the Iraqi Republican Guard...who surrenders to whom?

ROFL

207 posted on 11/07/2005 8:36:13 AM PST by SlayerOfBunnies
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To: Dane

Does anyone have any doubt that if this happened in the U.S. there would be 100 dead Muslims by this point?


208 posted on 11/07/2005 8:37:15 AM PST by montag813
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To: montag813
Does anyone have any doubt that if this happened in the U.S. there would be 100 dead Muslims by this point?

I do.

209 posted on 11/07/2005 8:39:41 AM PST by Wolfstar (Happy first birthday, Miss Beasley. Happy Anniversary President and Mrs. Bush.)
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To: Danae

What's funny is..I have never wanted to go to France or Iraq in my life. I say screw em' and let them burn. France is getting what it deserves and I hope it breaks into the money districts because they still are kissing way too much ass and playing the weak role that we have all known and come to love over the centuries.


210 posted on 11/07/2005 8:41:12 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: Wolfstar

If this happens in the US citizens will do nothing about it. Big talk till it happens. Then nothing.


211 posted on 11/07/2005 8:41:40 AM PST by Scythian
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To: montag813; All
France-Mayor declares curfew
212 posted on 11/07/2005 8:41:48 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane

Where's Looter Guy at this point ???


213 posted on 11/07/2005 8:42:43 AM PST by dfwddr (Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up.)
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To: Dane

214 posted on 11/07/2005 8:42:46 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: SlayerOfBunnies; olde north church
Okay, let me put another wrinkle in your connundrum...The French and the Iraqi Republican Guard...who surrenders to whom?

The US would have to step in to accept the surrenders....

215 posted on 11/07/2005 8:44:21 AM PST by dfwddr (Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up.)
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To: Scythian
Big talk till it happens. Then nothing.

Exactly.

216 posted on 11/07/2005 8:44:45 AM PST by Wolfstar (Happy first birthday, Miss Beasley. Happy Anniversary President and Mrs. Bush.)
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To: montag813
Does anyone have any doubt that if this happened in the U.S. there would be 100 dead Muslims by this point?

Unless, of course they tried it in Texas, in which case there would be thousands of dead muslims. Clearly muslim rioting would constitute 'messing with Texas' and would not be well tolerated.

217 posted on 11/07/2005 8:45:40 AM PST by SlayerOfBunnies
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To: alisasny
I told the dolt to stick to current events.

But there is so much to learn about islam in history.

218 posted on 11/07/2005 8:46:45 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Dane

Mr. Martel. Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.


219 posted on 11/07/2005 8:47:49 AM PST by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: montag813
It would never happen here.

Know why?

"We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam. We've seen it in many ways."

220 posted on 11/07/2005 8:48:48 AM PST by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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