Posted on 11/26/2007 7:06:27 PM PST by blam
Riots break out for second night in Paris
By Megan Levy and agencies
Last Updated: 2:54am GMT 27/11/2007
Thirty police officers have been injured in a second night of violence between youths and officers in the flashpoint suburb of Villiers-le-Bel in Paris.
About 160 riot police came under attack in the notoriously crime-ridden district, 20 miles north of the centre of the French capital. The violence spread from Villiers-le-Bel to several other areas, police said.
Police said about 100 angry youths crouching behind rubbish bins hurled objects at riot police
The violence was sparked on Sunday by the deaths of two young boys, who were killed when their moped collided with a police car.
The boys who died were said by locals to be "aged between 12 and 13".
Police insisted that their car had not been chasing the boys when the crash occurred soon after dusk.
French officials had earlier attempted to quell mounting anger by launching a manslaughter investigation into the deaths.
Riots broke out soon after the tragedy, with Molotov cocktails being thrown and cars and plastic bins set on fire.
Tonight, police said about 100 angry youths crouching behind rubbish bins hurled objects at riot police, who responded by firing rubber bullets and teargas.
A pre-school, driving school and beauty salon were reportedly torched and 25 vehicles set ablaze in six districts in the Val d'Oise area. Witnesses said the rioters also stoned a police car and a fire engine, as well as looting another vehicle.
The violence has grim echoes of the disturbances which followed the electrocution of two youths in a sub-station as they fled police in the nearby suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in late 2005. It directly led to two months of serious rioting across France, with a state of emergency being declared.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is in Beijing negotiating a trade deal, is facing the first serious test of his law and order credentials. He appealed for calm after the first night of unrest and for "all sides to calm down and for the judiciary to decide who bears responsibility".
With 15-20% of the French army being muslims Sarkozy might find calling the military in a bit counter-productive.
A state prosecutor has ordered the National Police General Inspectorate (IGPN) to carry out a detailed inquiry into the circumstances in which the two teenagers - named only as Moushin, 15, and Larami, 16, lost their lives.
Hello? How 'bout the youts? If Sarkozy knows what he's doing we should be reading about funerals, enough so no cars get destroyed, and no police get hurt.
ML/NJ
Won't argue with that.
But so will the U.S. Southwest, as in "Atzlan ascendant". Might take a little longer that ten years, but almost surely as certain to occur....
- John
If that outcome does not happen, I believe Europe will become increasingly Islamified and at some point, the Muslims will begin killing Europeans in something like a systematic way
As I've said before in posts here and there, there can be only one of two futures for Western Europe:
1. Boxcars... -or-
2. Burqhas.
Which will it be?
- John
And you know this ... how? Has Sarkozy issued some sort of statement that hasn't been reported?
Ping.
I agree. That was at least partly why he was elected, that he would not tolerate this.
Intifada - Paris style.
Too bad Charles Martel or Charlemagne isn’t here to rid the French of the Muslim Pox they have invited in.
Its this reaction of appeasement that will assure them of riots of this nature far into the future.
The water cannon works soooo much better when it's thirty degrees F outside.
Both.
Napoleon knew how to quell a riot with “A whiff of grapeshot”.
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