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Posted on 05/06/2007 10:30:22 PM PDT by Cincinna
LA COURNEUEVE, France, May 6, 2007 (AFP) - As news of rightwinger Nocolas Sarkozy's presidential victory flashed up on the television in the cafe, Gnyma Cisse buried her head in her hands in a mixture of frustration and fury.
"I'm disgusted," said Cisse, 23, who had gathered to watch the election coverage in Le Metro cafe which caters to a largely immigrant and first generation French-born clientelle in the La Courneuve suburb of Paris.
Cisse, of Sengalese origin, called her sister-in-law who lives here without French nationality.
"Pack your bags. The planes are already on standby," she said, alluding to Sarkozy's tough immigration policy and his decision as interior minister to step up the expulsion of illegal immigrants.
"There's nothing good about this," Meziane Ourad, an unemployed 50-year-old, said of the election result as he smoked one in a seemingly endless chain of cigarettes.
"France is entering uncharted waters. This is going to be an oppressive society," said Ourad, who brought his family to France from Algeria 20 years ago.
His only hope, he said, was that legislative elections in June would produce a National Assembly controlled by a grouping other than Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and therefore provide a counterpoint to the powerful executive office.
"Otherwise, we've got five terrible years ahead," he said.
Karim, a 28-year-old fishmonger of Algerian and Moroccan parentage, said he could not understand what he described as Sarkozy's "hatred" of foreigners.
"Sarkozy says he likes the France that gets up early. Well, when he gets up early in the morning, he'll find that France is made up of black and Arabs," he said.
Like other high-immigrant Parisian suburbs, La Courneueve witnessed weeks of rioting in 2005 by angry residents who complained of being excluded from the French mainstream.
"I voted Segolene!" a group of young women of African origin chanted in unison, displaying their loyalty to the defeated presidential candidate, Socialist Segolene Royal.
"I really like her. She's not a racist," said Assetou, 19. "God knows I hope she'll be president one day."
Several locals predicted that the 2005 riots would revisist La Courneuve.
"With Sarkozy, the riots will be permanent," said Farid, 25, a delivery man.
Mohamed Mechmache, the head of AC le Feu, a grassroots suburban association set up in the wake of the violence 18 months ago ago, told reporters after Sarkozy's victory that France "had failed to understand the message" of 2005.
"There are those who live well, the rich people, and those who will continue to suffer a lot," Mechmache said. "The disparity is enormous."
Kind of says it all, n'est ce pas?
President-elect Sarkozy sure has his work cut out for him.
I am keeping him in my prayers. He needs all the help he can get; he sure isn’t going to get it from these naysayers.
Ah, France... where you can be a rioting “youth” until you’re forty, and then you can retire.
Freakin’ French Pu$$ies. I must have seen a thousand photos of Royal with her arms up in the air with her palms skyward. What the hell does that mean? I think the body english meant that she thought she was a “gift” to France. Also, she has lost three elections now. Who the hell is running her campaigns, Bob Frum?????????
“Anxiety and anger” are beautiful things — if the right people have them.
Consider all the “anxiety and anger” the people quoted in this story probably cause the (real) French ...
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The particular people quoted in the story may or may not be “pu$$ies,” but they’d not French. They’re ungrateful parasites who live in France.
Yeah : )
Yes, France...not happy with election results so go distroy others property and endanger others in order to be taken seriously and respected...the radical logic is amazing isn’t it?
I think the results indicate most of France is through with the ungrateful parasites.
I think this guy's got it backwards. Sarkozy won precisely because of the 2005 message. Amazing how some people can't see what staring them right in the face.
Probably true.
Exactly.
"There's nothing good about this," Meziane Ourad, an unemployed 50-year-old, said of the election result as he smoked one in a seemingly endless chain of cigarettes.
There is a real "winner."
Kind of says it all, n'est ce pas?
Is France France any longer?
For that matter, is the U.S.A. the U.S.A. any longer?
Balkan-style racial/ethnic unrest creates permanent riots, MayDay-style. Hey, it's almost Cinco de Mayo, too.
Similar to how many Republican politicians, including the President, refuse to see how the American people feel about the demonstrations by the illegal invaders and the lack of border security.
I really want to thank you for all of the work you did, in order to educate this forum on the French Election. This, IMHO, was an important election for America as well. Hats off to you Cincinna! Thank you for your hard work and for your excellant analysis!
Wow, so the ultra liberal won instead of the outright socialist? Some choice.
I was actually hoping the socialist would win so France could go down the tubes that much faster.
Burning 10000 cars was not exactly a sign of ‘happy times’.
Maybe they are worried that this time they wont be allowed to get away with the crap the last government allowed.
uppity immigrants worldwide ...take note....
The planes are waiting
"The Planes Are Waiting"
It’s all Sarkozy’s fault.
Thank you, Cincinna, for your coverage of the French Election. I have yet to read an article where the bulk of those interviewed are pro-Sarkozy. He convincingly won the election. Those who voted for him are not hiding, yet reporters seem unable to find them. They might have interesting things to say about what the want for France economically, politically, and in terms of EU membership/US relations. I am now well informed that 45% of the French electorate think Sarkozy is a step backwards. Where are the 55% who thought otherwise? The bias is tiresome.
This is the actual map of the areas Sarko won :
Bouger TTT
I wish the election of a conservative would encourage this kind of exodus from our country too. If you're illegal, you're an uninvited guest and should go home.
Diversity is nothing more than division. Especially when admixed with a good dose of multicultural pandering.
When faced with the choice of shaping up or being shipped out, these numskulls choose to riot. Just a pathetic existence. If I immigrate to a society, I’m going to do the most I can to integrate, to become a part of that place. Or I wouldn’t have come there in the first place. And if my lifestyle is incompatible with segments of that society, there’s no reason for me to be there.
The sense of entitlement in some of these people knows no end.
Watched the morning news on BBC and they described the riots in France as ‘minor’. Here in Paris, is was the Batille area which had the car burning and mobs, but only a couple hundred, so by French standards, minor. I saw two burned cars in that area the day before when I went to visit the Picasso Museum, so it is not that uncommon. Kind of a national pasttime, car burning. I would think the Socialist/communist enviro wackos would be against this because it worsens global warming (sic), but I guess not.
I hope Sarkozy doesn’t end-up like Theo Van Gogh. He’d best have some very serious security personnel.
Years ago, my French cousin told me, “When a French student reads that Charles Martel won the Battle of Tours, preventing the Moors from conquering France, if he looks around him, he’s not going to believe it!”
"Pack your bags. The planes are already on standby," she said, alluding to Sarkozy's tough immigration policy and his decision as interior minister to step up the expulsion of illegal immigrants.
I'm praying that Sarkosy has the balls to expel these illegals, especially the Muslim ones
But the LAUGHTER CAUSED by A KABILIAN_FRENCH police officer who UTTERS ORDERS “SORTEZ! LE MAINS DANS L’AIR” to the CASSEURS and throwing to THEM INNOMINABLE INSULTS in MAGHREB VERNACULAR...
IS something that still makes me laugh!
LOL LOL
:-))
(seen Yesterday on FRANCE24 satelite chain)
But no description of the Yutes from Senegal, Algeria or Morocco who are threatening violence.
Napoleon I solved a similar crisis by firing cannons into the rioters; a “whiff of grapeshot”.
Look who they interview . A 23 year old do nothing and a 50 year old who is not from France and not employed. Figures
global MSM bias...
Only four words into the article, the bias becomes crystal clear.
“he’ll find that France is made up of black and Arabs”
This appears to be France’s big problem.
That doesn't say much for the current system.
I keep reading about these riots and now after a FREE election, an election by the people. Yet, they still riot because they didn’t get their way! Did they ever stop and think that the majority doesn’t want “their way.” They are like children pitching a temper tantrum, but in this case the rest of the country told them;
“NO, You can’t have it your way.” Now they need to respond like responsible citizens, not children throwing a deadly tantrum!
Yesterday, according to police officials, around 10,000 persons organized protests against Sarkozy throughout the country, mostly in large towns and cities. Most of these protests, like the one I saw in my hometown around 10 PM, were peaceful - and very short-lived for lack of volunteers.
Where the protests were not peaceful, the French National Police said it was not because of suburbs hoodlums but because of political groups from the extreme-left, who were rallying behind Anarchist banners. Given the fact the Extreme Left parties have portrayed sarkozy as the new Hitler, I guess these guys portrayed themselves s the heroic Resistance members - until they came face-to-face and nose-to-truncheon with the riot police.
All in all, 270 persons have been arrested last night, half of them in Paris. As far as “mischief nights” are concerned, the night has been pretty quiet.
Remember that the socialist encouraged her supporters to riot in the streets if she didn’t win. They, like all socialists, slavishly followed her orders.
“I really like her. She’s not a racist,” said Assetou, 19. “God knows I hope she’ll be president one day.”
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The socialists don’t consider her loss a defeat... simply a challenge for the future.
Beware, FRANCE
The riots need to result in rioter’s deaths.
That would help put some reality into their faces.
This rubber bullets and fire hoses junk ain’t cutting it any more.
The unwashed and unemployed masses are all pissed off ..Too bad ..
Assetou, 19..yea at 19 she knows whats what in the world ..Spare me .
...as Mssr Ourad's keen mind was already busy juxtaposing the concepts of...job...50...couch...seemingly endless chain theory...
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