[Wolfstar]

French President Jacques Chirac addressing a press conference. The French government was reeling after week of suburban rioting outside Paris spread to other areas around the capital.

Members of French government (right) face mayors of cities on Paris outskirts at the Matignon Hotel in Paris, after the seventh consecutive night of violence on the outskirts of the French capital. [When in doubt, call a meeting.]

[Wolfstar]

The caption accompanying this Reuters graphic blames the government's get-tough policy: "French youths rioted in a Paris suburb for the fifth night running on Tuesday, raising fresh questions about Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's 'zero tolerance' policy toward the violence."

Agence France Presse (AFP) caption: "A detachment of anti-riot security forces face a group of youths in front of burning cars in Clichy-Sous-Bois. Tough new French anti-crime policies are partly to blame for riots that gripped a Paris suburb...after the accidental deaths of two teenagers who thought they were being chased by police, the opposition and rights campaigners said.

[popdonnelly]

This should be the end of the Chirac government. The French public is not stupid. And the French don't have a history of looking kindly at civil unrest.

[Reaganesque]

Rrrrribbit!!

[Aznar5]

caption pic 1: This is le pen, if you would have voted for him we wouldn't be in this mess.

[hope]

hmmmm.