Posted on 11/18/2005 1:12:32 PM PST by TheShaz
LYON, France (Reuters) -- Festivities marking the arrival of this year's Beaujolais Nouveau turned violent in the southeastern French city of Grenoble on Friday, when more than 30 people were injured in clashes between students and police.
The overnight disturbance was an isolated incident in a country that had largely returned to normal after almost three weeks of rioting by youths angry over unemployment and discrimination in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities.
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My favorite wine........rats......
Remmber that old song . . . . "I love Paris in the summer . . . when it sizzles" :-)
I read this article.
Sounds like a bunch of drunken, copy-cat students doing idiotic things.
On a side note, I have banned the purchase of all French-made products since the start of the Iraq war - as punishment for France's intransigence.
But now that the new Beajolais' have been released...hmmmm, I may have to reconsider and buy one bottle.
But after that, I'm back on boycott. I promise.
What are they protesting?
Students: a P.C. way of saying "muslim" or "Islamo-fascist"
... was an isolated incident in a country that had largely returned to normal ...
200 cars burned a night is normal???
I agree - from reading the article it wasn't the same bunch that fried the outskirts of Paris - but the unenployment across the board in France is very high.
Even the ethnic French are freaking out. They saw two plus weeks of the government's inability to stop riots - what do they have to lose?
I was wondering the same thing vs the U.S.
I can't believe for the equivalent population, the U.S. has as many cars burned. Must be some kind of European thing?????????
We're not buying any French wine till Chirac & de Villepin are out of office.
Scum.... But where can you deport them to? It turns out that the Muslims may be the most civilized people in France.
Thousands of drunken young people attacking firefighters and police for no particular reason.
Sounds like Spring Break.
From what I have read / heard, yes...
Prior to the recent riots, an average of 150 to 200 cars a night were being burned / vandalized in France..
Just a normal night in Surrenderville..
The French have their wine riot in 2005. The USA had their beer riot in 1855. Canada had (our biggest) hockey riot in 1955. We don't riot over hockey games as much any more -- finally figured out that a riot is redundant.
What? You find France being on fire in the fall to be far fetched?
Or the "youth". We mustn't forget the "youths" as a handy slogan instead of Islamo-fascists.
Beaujolais?
Wasn't that a wine the French used to sell?
LOL!
(Last time I saw a bottle of the stuff, it was priced below the wines from Chile and Argentina!)
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