Clashes erupt at Paris train station (Is Paris still burning?)

Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2007 Mar 28 | Jamey Keaten

[LurkedLongEnough]

More "youths" causing trouble in Europe.

[Timmy]

Dem crazy yutes. What'll dey do next?

[Old Sarge]

Youths at the station said Tuesday's clashes started when police manhandled a young person of North African origin.

None dare call him Muslim...

[Paleo Conservative]

Riot police firing tear gas and brandishing batons clashed Tuesday with bands of youths who shattered windows and looted shops at a major Paris train station, officials said. Nine people were arrested.

Ray with all the incidents involving "youths" on trains in France, could your enthusiasm for Eurostar trains connecting CDG to London be unwarranted? Who is going to want to get on a train in the UK to go to CDG to catch a flight, when there are so many threats to personal safety on French trains?

[mighty_righty]

"(Is Paris still burning?)" IF it were only true!!!

[Dilbert San Diego]

yep, none dare call them what they are. Neither ethnic identity, or even call to call them criminals. Instead, they are "youths". Gotta be politically correct to the death, I guess.

[6SJ7]

A typically circumspect article with eight mentions of the word 'yout'. 'Yout' is quickly becoming a code word for 'you know who'.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

"Officers and police dogs fired tear gas "

NAHHHHHH way..the French police dogs fired tear gas. We need video.

[elcid1970]

Kill the bastards!

[xsysmgr]

Officers and police dogs fired tear gas...

Wonder where I can get one of those tear gas firing dogs. Sounds like something useful to have.

[Don Carlos]

Nice doggie, nice doggie!

[happinesswithoutpeace]

LOl. They were defending the defenseless automatic drink dispensers.

[PhilDragoo]

[ml/nj]

French police officers face youths during clashes at the Gare du
Nord Metro station in Paris, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. The
standoff between officers and youths left several station windows
shattered and seven people were arrested. (AP Photo /Jacques
Brinon)

ML/NJ

[RightWhale]

Gar du Nord is downtown and indeed a major trainstation.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Officers and police dogs fired tear gas and charged at groups of marauding youths, some of them wearing hoods and swinging metal bars.

LOL! Now that would be something to see... police dogs firing tear gas.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Notice how so few of the youts are trying to conceal their identity. They know they will face little, if any, repercussions for these incidents.

France has a choice to make.

[StormEye]

"That violence was born of pent-up anger — especially among youths of Arab and African origin — over years of high unemployment and racial inequalities."

The AP, always ready with the same tired old reasons to excuse thuggery, holiganism, and rioting by muslims and non-whites.

[Wiz]

Meanwhile, trained cats are in position.

and the squirrel aims its bazooka...

Finally, one of the rioter surrenders what it has stolen from the shop nearby.