PARIS RIOTS SPREADING (8th Night of Violence and Burning)

World News Australia ^ | 4.11.2005. 18:34:50 | staff

[Southack]

PARIS RIOTS SPREADING 4.11.2005. 18:34:50

Rioting around Paris has worsened with gangs attacking police and firefighters in defiance of a government vow to crackdown on the violence, which has plagued the capital for over a week.

Fresh rioting broke out on the outskirts of Paris — in the city's poorest and mainly immigrant suburbs — for the eighth straight night on Thursday.

Around 1,300 police officers were mobilised in the north-eastern suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, while more than 30 people were arrested in the area.

Buses, fire engines and police were stoned and five policemen were reported injured.

Police said more than 160 cars were torched overnight in the Paris region and 33 in the provinces, a day after around 315 vehicles were burnt in the city’s Ile-de-France region.

One of the worst incidents took place at Neuilly-sur-Marne where police vans came under fire from pellet pistols, but nobody was reported hurt.

A fire was started in a primary school in Stains, as police were targeted by a group of 30 to 40 people near a synagogue.

Paris firemen were called to fight a blaze at a carpet warehouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis.

Traffic was halted on a suburban commuter line which links Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport after stone-throwing rioters attacked two trains.

The clashes have gained territory every night since they began last Thursday, exposing what critics say is a failure of the government to address the problems of low-income, high-immigration suburbs where crime and gangs run rampant.

In a worrying sign similar rampages broke out elsewhere in France.

Police said several cars in the eastern city of Dijon were set alight, while similar attacks took place in the western Seine-Maritime region and the Bouches-du-Rhone in the south of the country.

Government defiant

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who cancelled a trip to Canada to tackle the crisis, said the violence was "unacceptable".

He vowed that authorities would not give in to the violence and would make restoring order their "absolute top priority".

"I will not allow organised gangs to make the law in the suburbs," he said.

President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday called for calm, warning that an escalation would be "dangerous".

The riots were sparked last week by the accidental electrocution of two teenagers who had hidden in an electrical sub-station to escape a police identity check in Clichy-sous-Bois.

A preliminary report released by the interior ministry on Thursday appeared to exonerate police of any direct role in the teenagers' deaths.

But as the unrest continued the opposition Socialist Party and many in the suburbs themselves blamed the hardline policies of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for fanning the violence.

Mr Sarkozy, who on Thursday said the total number of people arrested was over 140, vowed a "war without mercy" on crime and rebellious youths in the suburbs just before the rampages erupted.

The conservative minister, who has ambitions of running for president in two years, has drawn criticism for his tough rhetoric, especially for referring to delinquents as "rabble".

On Thursday, he claimed that recent rioting "was not spontaneous, it was perfectly organised — we are looking into by whom and how."

Low income suburbs

France has 751 neighbourhoods officially classed as severely disadvantaged, housing a total of five million people, around eight percent of the population.

The recent violence has exposed simmering discontent in those suburbs where African and Muslim immigrants and their French-born children are trapped by poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, crime and poor education and housing.

Unemployment is these areas is often twice the national rate of 10 percent, and per capita incomes 40 percent below the national average.

Thursday night was the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a night traditionally marked by feasts and family get-togethers.

[Explodo]

"French blogs as well as Iranian President Ahmadijine are apparently calling for all Muslims in France to riot in 700 towns throughout France..."

Give me a link

[b4its2late]

Iranian President Ahmadijine are apparently calling for all Muslims in France to riot in 700 towns throughout France tomorrow night (Friday)

I didn't even know it was the "Religion of Pieces" related until yesterday!

[IonImplantGuru]

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who cancelled a trip to Canada to tackle the crisis, said the violence was "unacceptable".
Villepin, and isn't she lovely?

But as the unrest continued the opposition Socialist Party and many in the suburbs themselves blamed the hardline policies of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for fanning the violence. Mr Sarkozy, who on Thursday said the total number of people arrested was over 140, vowed a "war without mercy" on crime and rebellious youths in the suburbs just before the rampages erupted. The conservative minister, who has ambitions of running for president in two years, has drawn criticism for his tough rhetoric, especially for referring to delinquents as "rabble". On Thursday, he claimed that recent rioting "was not spontaneous, it was perfectly organised — we are looking into by whom and how."
Tough guy Sarkozy.

[sully777]

LAND FOR PEACE, France, LAND FOR PEACE!

[Jim Noble]

How long before the military gets involved?

Oh, no!

That would just perpetuate the cycle of violence!

[vimto]

Remember there are plenty of us Europeans who have our eyes open! but this is bad - apparently Denmark has also been getting Muslim riots. Not much in the UK news.

Meanwhile - it could be a hard night in France! Prayers for the innocent and the police who have to deal with this.

[vimto]

sounds good to me.

[FightThePower!]

The French are getting exactly what they have coming to them. Burn France, Burn.

[LikeLight]

http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/

Blog post:

France2 finally FINALLY did itself pround Thursday night, when they showed the tape of their reporter and cameraman in a car driving into bobigny and getting stoned and surrounded by the racaille--did anyone see it? Brilliant stuff! They had to abandon their car and were rescued by the CRS. The CRS was driving them out and had to dodge to avoid a car that was entirely engulfed in flames in the middle of the road--spectacular footage--they sped a couple of feet away from this burning car--just like in Bagdad. Then they passed the big car dealership and the school that was in flames and got the footage. Now thats journalism baby! If I hear one more asshole talking about sarko and de VeillePain I am going to puke--thats not the story--the story is about the rioting, not its causes. The US press is ignoring this whole thing, I have no idea why, its a great story. I guess most french reporters are too scared to go out and get the story--can you imagine--the story of the year and no one is covering it live?
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[Jo Nuvark]

[...Rest assured we are next, as soon as the islamic population here reaches a critical mass...]

You are correct, sir. Our turn is coming. We WILL be "Kosovo'd".

[ex-Texan]

Cool link, LikeLight! I'll be back later to read in detail. Thanks much!

[America's Resolve]

The rioters seem to becoming bolder each day.

Of course they are. They have no downside. Nobodys been killed and mostly only police/firemen injured.

Saw a thread yesterday with a cute quote by one of the rioters. "We play video games or go see our girlfriends during the day. Then we go and fight the police at night." (paraphrased)

This is great sportin fun to them. Why stop?

[Jo Nuvark]

[...If they just waited and outbred the Euros they'd have the place in a couple generations...]

This is what they have done in Indonesia and the Philippines. They breed with the natural population, and "voila" the country is suddenly muslim. Talk about Terror-Forming!

[No.6]

"The Islamfascists are simply a tool of the left against Christianity and Judiasm. Once the religious faithful are destroyed there are no moral barriers against full implementation of the evils of Socialism and Communism. They they can put the Islamofascists in Gulags and releasae those who are willing to serve them on other fronts."

That's the lefty thinking, anyway. The Islamists think similarly that once those nasty God-fearing Western types are knocked down that the pansy liberals will readily submit to dhimmitude.

Being on the right side is rather like being Polish in 1939, trouble on both sides ... except we're not hopelessly outgunned and riding horses against tanks.

[cvq3842]

Awful.

Probably predictable as well.

[An Old Marine]

Amish and Baptists outta control?

Maybe it's a radical sect of Lutherns.

Shame on you. You know its those horrible Druids and their intolerance.

[Sterm26]

Now Michelle Malkin is posting that the Muslims set a wheelchair-bound woman on fire.

The Islamo-fascists seem to be having a "worst atrocity" contest.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003831.htm

[jb6]

:0)

Well the French have no problems on firing on unarmed crowds in the Ivory Coast, how about combative islamics in Paris?

[4woodenboats]

QUAGMIRE!

ROTFL..;~)

[Southack]

"Well the French have no problems on firing on unarmed crowds in the Ivory Coast, how about combative islamics in Paris?"

It's worth pointing out that the government of the Ivory Coast is Christian, whereas the rebellion in the Ivory Coast is Islamic.

The French have sided **against** the Ivory Coast's Christian government and with the Islamic rebellion there.

Thus, the Radical Islamic insurrection has now spread to France, ungrateful as they may be, they pounce on weakness.