Hundreds of vehicles torched in renewed French riots

Reuters ^ | 04 Nov 2005 | Kerstin Gehmlich

[ncountylee]

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Rioters set fire to hundreds of vehicles in impoverished suburbs of northeastern Paris in an eighth night of unrest that spread for the first time to other parts of the capital and towns in France.

Local officials said they had lost patience with the government. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and his rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, opted for low profiles after days of squabbling over how to handle the crisis.

Police reported fewer clashes than previous nights and residents said the Eid al-Fitr holiday ending Ramadan may have calmed areas with many Muslims of North African and black African origin who feel treated as second-class citizens.

But the rioting spread, with some attacks reported in western Paris suburbs -- including the spectacular burning of 23 buses at a depot -- and a few cars firebombed around Rouen in northern France, Dijon in the east and Marseille in the south.

The pattern of violence also changed, shifting from crowds clashing with police to targeted arson attacks, many against businesses and warehouses.

"I've had enough of this," said an angry woman wearing a headscarf in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a northeastern Paris suburb where a large warehouse was burned down overnight. "This must stop quickly. It's just not right."

Mayors from the riot-hit areas were also exasperated after Villepin briefed them on Thursday evening about an "action plan for the suburbs" he aims to present later this month.

"Many of us told him this isn't the time for an umpteenth plan," said Jean-Christophe Lagarde, mayor of Drancy. "All we need is one death and I think it will get out of control."

"IMMENSE VIOLENCE"

[uncbob]

where disenfranchised blacks in Detroit and Newark had their grievances addressed

Libearal talk that DISENFRANCHISEMENT BS

They were addressed alright Detroit is a craphole and black culture is in the pits

[gathersnomoss]

I looked. Everything there looks cheerie and happy and gay. Of course we're not talking about the "poor suburbs".

Every shot is of downtown and the Eifel Tower. I will plan a Paris vacation shortly after I book Aruba.

[atlaw]

"Impoverished suburbs" with lots of automobiles to burn, and lots of tv's, stereos, and jewelry to loot.

[uncbob]

They called up my father's Tank unit from Fort Knox to put down the MLK riots in DC in 1968.

A little history In 1964 Phila had a riot with major looting At the time there was a captain on the police force by the name of Frank Rizzo. Very early on he had the situation under control but was pulled off the street so as not to inflame the rioters.
So they were permitted to loot and wipe out mainly Jewish merchants ( Mantra was they have been price gouged us for years )

4 years later Rizzo became police chief and the mayor was James Tate

After MLK was assassinated Tate told Rizzo he had total control

Rizzo announced NOBODY IS BURNING OR LOOTING THIS CITY PERIOD.
Philadelphia remained unscathed while other cities "Burned Baby Burn"

[ChadGore]

I call on the Congress to pass a law to adjust the CAFE standards in US Auto exports to include, built right into the trunk, an extra 5 gallon gas tank with a gas soaked rag hanging out a hole in the trunk for exclusive export to France.

If France is going to burn thousands and thousands of cars, US Industry should provide a solution to capitalize on this french form of political speech.

Given the number of cars have been burned so far this year across France, this is a market that will reach 8,000,000 cars over the next 10 years.

My Dear Fellow FReepers, what do we name this car ?

[Antoninus]

Rioters set fire to hundreds of vehicles in impoverished suburbs of northeastern Paris

For a communist, it's always about economics. Never about anything else--like religious or ethnic hatred fanned by bloodthirsty mullahs.

What do you really think is at the core of this unrest--economics or religious hatred (Islamics hating everyone else)? If you think it's economics, why aren't there riots like this in ANY of the dozens of hell-holes in the Middle East where these individuals hail from?

[Vicomte13]

Correct.

And this will be the way out for France too.

Jobs cannot be created overnight in the private sector, and trying to pry free the rigidities of the French labor law would provoke labor riots and a general strike which would bring down the government.

Government employment, by contrast, would get people into jobs. They're already earning welfare and unemployment benefits, so it would not cost the state much more money...and they would start paying taxes and get off the streets.

The Beurs need to be working, at real jobs, all day, all year. Do that, and the problem of idle hands largely vanishes.

[uncbob]

Probably

[The_Victor]

Libearal talk that DISENFRANCHISEMENT BS

Sorry about that, it was the best word I had on short notice. :)

It's a damn shame what liberalism has done to the black communities that were thriving without white intervention.