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Youths riot in French town
AFP ^ | 010/05/2007

Posted on 10/05/2007 10:34:44 AM PDT by Republicain

Saint-Dizier, France - French police clashed overnight with youths who went on a rampage in a town in eastern France, prompting Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to travel to the trouble spot.

Between 40 and 50 masked youths used metal bars to smash a firefighters' vehicle and a police car dispatched to a shopping mall in Saint-Dizier, said Yves Guillot, the head of the Haute-Marne regional government.

The youths then fanned out across the town of 30 000 inhabitants, setting fire to two buildings, a car rental office and 16 vehicles. Police reinforcements were sent in to quell the violence.

"We are trying to understand what happened. We have had clashes in our town but not on this scale," said Mayor Francois Cornut-Gentille.

The youths are said to be residents of Saint-Dizier's low-income housing project, Vert-bois, which is home to 12 000 people.

Alliot-Marie was due to travel to Saint-Dizier, some 200km east of Paris, after police and fire emergency authorities were targeted in the violence, her office said.

Hundreds of suburbs across France exploded into rioting for three weeks in late 2005, highlighting the nation's failure to integrate its Arab and African immigrants.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrymuslims; france; riot; saintdizie; saintdizier; youths; yutes
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To: Republicain

Let me guess, alot of guys named Francois, Michel, and Jean Paul?


21 posted on 10/05/2007 10:49:34 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Bob
"I'd bet it was fanatical Amish extremists"

They get trashed on CBS this Sunday on preachy, leftist crap show, Cold Case.

22 posted on 10/05/2007 10:49:53 AM PDT by isrul (Lamentations 5:2)
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To: Republicain

“Uh, Mr. Gambini, what is a “yoot”?”

“Oh, sorry. MOOOOOOOZLIMS.”


23 posted on 10/05/2007 10:50:05 AM PDT by Argus
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To: Republicain
Must just be middle class French youths blowing off some steam.

Of course it couldn't be the mooselimbs who are filling up the country. They are just peaceful, loving citizens.

24 posted on 10/05/2007 10:50:28 AM PDT by fweingart (Tom Tancredo Will Get The Job Done! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
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To: isrul
I'd bet it was fanatical Amish extremists"

Wrong-o.

It was those terrifying Mormon killers.

25 posted on 10/05/2007 10:51:40 AM PDT by fweingart (Tom Tancredo Will Get The Job Done! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
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To: Ouderkirk

Well I always figured it was just a coincidence.


26 posted on 10/05/2007 10:52:42 AM PDT by coon2000
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To: Kozak
violence was seen as one of the few means of impacting political discourse.

In Islam it IS the only means of political discourse.... Its totalitarian and oppressive nature ensure this to be the case.

27 posted on 10/05/2007 10:53:10 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Republicain

“These two yutes...”

“What was that?”

“Two yutes.”

“What’s a ‘yute’”


28 posted on 10/05/2007 10:53:36 AM PDT by trimom
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To: trimom
Darned Huguenots!
29 posted on 10/05/2007 10:57:00 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: fweingart

There is a South Park episode that will tell everything you need to know about Mormons. :)


30 posted on 10/05/2007 10:58:01 AM PDT by isrul (Lamentations 5:2)
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To: Republicain

Hang on to your bippies people,,,,,soon this will be happening in our country,,,,,,,,,wait and see.


31 posted on 10/05/2007 10:58:08 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (HEY JORGE, SHUT UP AND BUILD THE BLEEPING FENCE, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.)
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To: Holicheese
Isn’t it too late in the season for this? I thought early spring into the summer was the proper time to burn buildings and cars.

Nope. I was in Paris a year ago. Just days after I flew home riots broke out -- some of them in places I'd just toured.

32 posted on 10/05/2007 10:58:28 AM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Republicain

Youths is such a euphemistic term. Why not just come out and say scumbag, muslim, terrorists-in-training.


33 posted on 10/05/2007 10:58:31 AM PDT by libs_kma (www.imwithfred.com)
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To: Republicain

For the moment, the ideological heirs of those that believe the flames of liberty must be extinguished and the
aspirations of the individual curtailed for the alleged propriety of Muhammad have grown more sophisticated in their
methods of getting the people to comply with their agenda. However, as Americans draw ever closer to the breaking
point of just how much they are willing to put up with as frankly we are fast approaching the threshold where
there is precious little left for the state to steal, we must ask with concern will the aspiring jihadist’s among us
resort to the violent tendencies of their philosophical progenitors in the attempt to bring about Islam’s ultimate triumph


34 posted on 10/05/2007 11:00:25 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
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To: Slapshot68

They are yoots, what else do you want to know?


35 posted on 10/05/2007 11:00:42 AM PDT by 353FMG (Government is the opiate of the people.)
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To: Republicain
"Hundreds of suburbs across France exploded into rioting for three weeks in late 2005, highlighting the nation's failure to integrate its Arab and African immigrants."

What bull.

36 posted on 10/05/2007 11:01:15 AM PDT by Mr.FixIt (Ethanol: Growing in four months what the U.S.A. burns in one day)
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To: Republicain

CAIR will be shortly issuing a statement denouncing Youthaphobia.


37 posted on 10/05/2007 11:07:29 AM PDT by inkling (exurbanleague.com)
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To: Boiler Plate
They are just young despondent mimes upset about the passing of Marcel Marceau.

So... it's a Quiet Riot?

38 posted on 10/05/2007 11:08:43 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("A person's a person no matter how small." -Dr. Seuss)
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To: Lizavetta

‘Youth’ = 25-30 yrs old ‘cause under the SCHIPS recently vetoed legislation, one is still a child until they pass 25 yrs. old and must make over $82K / year to not be poor.


39 posted on 10/05/2007 11:11:20 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: rockabyebaby
Yes and the media will be the ones to promote, and cause it. They will do this before the 2008 election showcasing the urgent need for "change."

You are right on the money.

40 posted on 10/05/2007 11:13:03 AM PDT by mallardx
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