French authorities vow they 'will not give in' to rioters (Sarkosi: "war without mercy")

AFP ^ | 11/03/2005 | AFP

[Hang'emAll]

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed his government "will not give in" to rioters......Today!

[mad puppy]

The interior minister, who harbours presidential ambitions, last month promised to wage a "war without mercy" on youth crime.

Some of the youths taking part in the troubles have responded by pledging to continue the "war" against the police "until Sarkozy resigns."

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This Sarkozy doesn't talk or act like a typical Frenchmen. His bosses might surrender but I don't think he will. My guess is that every available radical Muslim in Europe is going to France as fast as possible in order to help burn Paris to the ground. As soon as the real weapons show up and the police bury a couple of their guys, THEN the war will start. And then we'll see if Sarkozy is as tough as his talk or if his bosses decide to convert.

[Pete'sWife]

Villepin -- who cancelled a trip to Canada to tackle the crisis -- called the violence "unacceptable" and said restoring order was the government's "absolute top priority."

Piece of cake, Jacques. Just break out the white flags and let 'em have the whole stinking cesspool.

[HamiltonJay]

More than 1,300 police were deployed to again do battle with groups of stone- and bottle-throwing youths that have torched hundreds of vehicles and vandalised buildings in rampages in low-income, high-immigrant districts since last week.

Islam exports its way of life to Western Europe. We tried to warn ya.

[ComputerGuy]

The country has 751 neighbourhoods officially classed as severely disadvantaged, housing a total of five million people, around eight percent of the population.
750 of them muslim

[goldstategop]

Vilvain - A haughty Gallic intellectual who has been exposed in the last week as a French Jimmy Carter.

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[RegulatorCountry]

"Maybe they can just give up the suburbs"

Maybe Parisians should wall themselves in, like West Berlin.

[Amish with an attitude]

This represents a paradigm shift for the French. Maybe they'll be forced to figure out why their guns have triggers.

[Paleo Conservative]

[goldstategop]

Its certainly not for social benefits the disadvantaged youths in the French slums are rioting over.

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[Jim Noble]

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

To whom?

[auboy]

Dominique de Villepin

Now there's a name that strikes fear. I can hear the rioters now. "Oh no… anybody but de Villepin."

[Windsong]

More than 1,300 police were deployed to again do battle with groups of stone- and bottle-throwing youths that have torched hundreds of vehicles and vandalised buildings in rampages

And which group likes to throw stones in the Middle East? Hmmmm...

[TravisBickle]

Isn't anyone in France worried that taking a hard line could lead to an Al-Qaeda recruiters dream?

[goldstategop]

They could build a wall like the Israelis do. That would be sweet after France's repeated condemnation of Israel for building a security wall to keep out terrorists. The situation in Paris is just too rich for irony.

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[Cautor]

Maybe Villepin show up in a tank a la mode Michael Dukakis. That should scare the goat humpers back into their tents for sure.

[Eurotwit]

Some pictures:

[miliantnutcase]

I would love to see these dirtbags try this over here. Muslim rioters vs. 1300 pissed off NYC cops.

[Amish with an attitude]

Ready to buy Boeing stock if it spreads to the Airbus factory.

[goldstategop]

Is Chiraq worried about the Muslim world's opinion or about what's happening in his own country. With his weasel attitude, its hard to tell what he considers more important.

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