Yes, that's right. Disregard for the rules in the Metro is universal among a certain visible class of young people, and some not-so-young like this cretin who started this.
Yes, as I understand it, this congolais charged the police, they hit him, and the band of voyous all around began a general melee.
It has got to stop. These bastards have to be beaten into submission, and it has to be done behind prison walls, where it belongs.
Only Sarkozy or Le Pen will do that, and only Sarkozy is tolerable to most French. It has to be him, now.
What has happened today? I have not seen the news nor spoken with anyone back there yet, and it will be too late when I get home. More unrest, or has the firm hand been clamped down?
There is little in the French media about this today. It was the #5 story on French News last night.
If you are in the NYC metro area, you can watch French News with subtitles (I know you don't need them, but others might) on WNYC TV channel 25 at 7 pm. I get TV 5 Monde on Cable, lots of news, but a lot of crappy soap type shows and game shows.
You have flipped on your choice over this incident, it would seem from the centrist to the tough guy. I find that interesting. In the larger scheme of things, it was nothing as compared to the previous widespread incindiary one, yet that did not cause you to support the tough guy, and this one does. That suggests to me a certain emotionalism suffuses your intellectual mind. Am I wrong in that?