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.
They don't need no steenkin precipitating event. It's been in their blood for 1500 years.
Wadda y'all think?
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I just knew that there was no need to click on this thread....
They refuse to talk about Marcel’s death...
Mon Dieu, Zee Marceu Es Mort
A moment of silence for the Master Mime.
And now, let’s see him get out of that box.
You’re right - total bull.
“Integrating” into a society means you become like the rest of the society and adopt its norms.
Mooselimbs have no intention of integrating, they intend to overrun.
Coulter’s view of Sarkozy is hillarious:
“Oui! I hear Sarkozy is so conservative he actually hates the French”
Thinking quickly, he grabbed a fork off of a diner's table and bent it into a semi-circle....
Napalm, followed up by machine guns to mop up any stragglers.
....what *kind* of youths.
LOL!
A mime followed my date and me at Wrigley field. I wanted
to kick his [expletive deleted] but she wouldn’t let me.
Weren't they able to identify them after they took the masks off of their bodies? Oh, I forgot, this is France. Never mind.
Sarkozy must have watched “Band of Brothers”...
“Hey, these Germans are really good at cleaning up!”
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I would think the lack of a "trigger" event makes it more not less, likely that the violence is organized, and not spontaneous. That in turn would seem to make it more likely to "go national", or even international, spreading into other Eurpopean countries, Germany for instance, with signifigant populations of "disaffected" Muslim youth. Of course they are "disaffected" because the country won't adopt Sharia law.
“We are trying to understand what happened. “
Dr. Feelgood has examined the symptoms Monsieur.
You are suffering from Islamitis. This is a very serious condition generated by too Muslims in you major arteries.
I suggest a very thorough emetic and laxative to clear out the problem.
Dr. Feelgood has examined the symptoms Monsieur.
You are suffering from Islamitis. This is a very serious condition generated by too many Muslims in your major arteries.
I suggest a very thorough emetic and laxative to clear out the problem.
Can't be, the French kicked them out the country a long time ago. Paul Revere's father, Apollos Rivoire, was one. Yes, the famous "Midnight Rider" and metalsmith. Appollos Rivoire gradually Anglicized his name to Paul Revere.
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