Idiots who think money comes from thin air
Gallic ping.
These demonstartions can now be called vandalism. Its a shame, there are some good people in France who have tolerated the movement to socialism for too long. those good people are now going to be consumed by that socialism.
I hope that every American is watching this, because when we take back our country and try to fix it, we will face a lot of the same stuff. We need to be ready for it and decide not to back down when the time comes.
RFI-
http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20101018-students-across-france-clash-police-over-pension-reforms
Students across France staged sit-ins and clashed with police Monday as protests against the government’s pension reforms continue. In Paris, students marched down the Champs Elysées and blocked traffic in the centre of town. Elsewhere, police used teargas to disperse protesters
The protest actions called by various student unions, brought groups of between 200 and 1,500 students to the streets, most peacefully marching or stopping traffic, though there were reports of cars and property being destroyed.
The Interior Ministry said 196 rioters were detained by mid-day, and four police officers were injured in clashes with protesters.
The Education Ministry said 261 high schools were disrupted, while the UNL student union said 850 were involved, and 550 were shut down.
In Paris, Monday afternoon RFI observed some 200 students blocking Rue de Rivoli, a main thoroughfare of the capital. They sat on the street near city hall in the street, stopping traffic, holding signs calling themselves the Mouvement de Lycée, or High school movement.
Some 300 to 400 students from the Paris suburbs convened at Etoile, according to the AFP news agency. They tried to go down the Champs Elysées to block traffic, but were stopped by police on the sidewalk, without incident.
Monday morning, police clashed with students in Nanterre, a Paris suburb. Cars were burned and bus stops and phone booths in the area were destroyed by stones by students at the police, who used teargas to get the situation under control by the afternoon.
In Lagny-sur-Marne, another suburb, a police officer was injured by stones thrown by protesters in front of a high school, who also launched Molotov cocktails, according to a police source.
In eastern France, police reportedly broke up a protest of 400 high school students in Mulhouse, arresting two, aged 15 and 16 years old. Four were detained after property was damaged in Thionville and Forbach, where about 500 high school students were protesting.
In Nancy and Metz, 1,000 and 1,500 students took to the streets without incident.
In Lyon, about 1,000 high school students took to the streets. Two students, both 18-years-old, were sentenced to three months in prison after one damaged an advertising sign when she threw a rock at it, and the other threw a bag of dead leaves on a police officer.
At least this should reduce their carbon footprint.
Time to call out the army to restore order.
The French government at work.
Coming soon to a nation near you. :)
So reluctant to give up the freebies they are willing to take down all of France and wreak hardship on all of her citizens.
In the meantime the Muslims are planning on imposing Sharia law on the French and slitting the throats of those that refuse to submit.
All because the French President wants to raise the retirement age three years? Imagine if the welfare checks stopped coming.
Problem solved.
Paris, like Mexico, used to be a place I enjoyed visiting regularly. Not for the last ten years, though. Even if I do spend most of my time there way outside of Paris.
I hope that Sarkozy holds strong on this. The future of France really lies on this - he needs to break the socialists (we will soon be having the same battle here). Raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 isn’t really that big of a deal. Heck, I intend to work at least to 65 myself.
Hey, here’s a good idea: Why not burn the refineries down? That’ll show ‘em.