Waves of Arson Attacks Hit Paris Suburbs

Associated Press ^ | 11/4/05 | Jamey Keaten

[Syco]

Groups of youths hit Paris' riot-shaken suburbs with waves of arson attacks, torching hundreds of cars, as unrest entered its second week Friday and spread to other towns in France.

In the eastern city of Dijon, teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood set fire to five cars, said Paul Ronciere, the region's top government official.

Overnight in the Paris region, 420 cars were set ablaze, up from previous nights, the Interior Ministry said... The unrest was led by "very numerous small and highly mobile groups," with arson attacks that destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings, including three sprawling warehouses.

Car torchings are a daily fact of life in France's tough suburbs, with thousands burned each month, police say. Police intelligence has recorded nearly 70,000 incidents of urban violence this year, including attacks on police and rescue services, arson, throwing projectiles, clashes between gangs, joy-riding and property destruction, Le Monde reported.

Many of the riotous youths are the French-born children of immigrant parents. The unrest has laid bare discontent simmering in suburbs and among immigrant families who feel trapped by poverty, unemployment, and poor education.

Youths fired buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, east of Paris, and a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue in Stains to the north where a city bus was torched and a school classroom partially burned, Cordet said.

In Trappes, to the west, 27 buses were incinerated. But the unrest was scaled back from the sometimes-ferocious rioting of previous nights, when bullets were fired at police and firefighters without causing injuries.

[PositiveCogins]

Sounds like what may happen here if we start enforcing immigration laws and kicking the illegal aliens out. We've seen the cops here run away when a riot breaks out and we've seen them join in the looting. If our politicians, including Bush, ever grow a spine and do anything about the immigration issue in this country we will need to be ready to defend our selves because the cops, like in France, are totally worthless.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

I only have schadenfreude because, like your screen name, enough is enough. Anything that wakes people up, especially at the cost of property damage only (so far) is a good thing.

[FreedomNeocon]

In the eastern city of Dijon, teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood set fire to five cars, said Paul Ronciere, the region's top government official.

Overnight in the Paris region, 420 cars were set ablaze

They couldn't have been that 'clever'...

[Great Caesars Ghost]

the rampages that have gripped the poorer immigrant-populated outskirts of Paris since October 27 spread, for the first time, to other parts of the country, to Dijon, Marseille and Normandy, and inside the capital itself.

I have been waiting for this to spread to places like Marseilles where, We understand, the Muslims have had their way long before they started throwing their weight around in Paris.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

In the old days, before SS, if you could not take care of yourself your family was expected to take care of you. Therefore, families HAD to stay together or die alone. With the advent of socializm, there was no incentive for families, witness its disintegration as an institution. No family leads to isolation. Isolation leads to nihilism. Nihilism is the National Philosophy of France, the one that makes them feel oh, so superior, and so above religion. The Muslims reject urinate on all of that.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

when Muslim immigrants meet Mexican illegals

What if they're both rioting?

[Great Caesars Ghost]

What IS that beautiful machine? When Machine Gun Sammy gets on the court will I be able to have one?

[Aquinasfan]

teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood... Many of the riotous youths are the French-born children of immigrant parents.

LOL! F'n AP.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Better to have one carry the ammocan and one the minigun, and set it up where there is a clear field of fire.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

They support the theives and tyrants like Saddam and Arafat. Is it any surprise that those that have nothing are not impressed by that?

[Aquinasfan]

In the old days, before SS, if you could not take care of yourself your family was expected to take care of you. Therefore, families HAD to stay together or die alone. With the advent of socializm, there was no incentive for families, witness its disintegration as an institution. No family leads to isolation. Isolation leads to nihilism.

It really is as simple as that, isn't it? Well said.

[Question_Assumptions]

Well, at some point, they'll run out of cars to burn.

[dadwags]

It seems to me that the Euros need to reconsider "ethnic cleansing " and possibly, stsrt another CRUSADE . It (sort of )worked for the Spanish in the late 1400's .

[little jeremiah]

Mohammedan drug dealers.

You know the word "asassins"? Hit squads of Mohammadens, fueled by hashish.

[BnBlFlag]

"Mexican illegals meeting Muslim immigrants".
Already happening in Houston. Many a Paki convenience store owner has bit the dust at the hands of illegals as well as local Blacks.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

there was no incentive for families,

Seems like children have become expensive pets and status symbols, albeit just as likely as not to turn on you when they become teenagers. Guess I should be glad I have none.

[GOP_1900AD]

Got ammo? :-)

[GAB-1955]

"Unlike previous events (Rodney King Riots, Katrina, the Tsunami) the MSM probably isn't giving us all of the news here because it would make their darling French allies look bad."

There's also the issue of the paucity of U.S. news bureaus in Europe. They're all taking it from the same sources. If you read French, there's more information and more detail about the riots heading into insurrection. The bad news is that Sarkozy and de Villepin want to talk. The good news is they're coordinating action.

I don't think that the rioters/insurgents really understand French history. Even when politically defeated and discredited, the French government will do ruthless acts to survive. The Paris Commune was put down by French soldiers who just had been released from German POW camps. The French do have good counter-insurgency Gendarmerie units; it might be a matter of putting them together and sweeping the area.

[WatchingInAmazement]

Some immigrants. Invading army would be more like it, and to make matters worse, the invading army is being funded almost entirely, from cradle to the grave, by the French taxpayer.

The same thing can be said of this country.

[livius]

No, it can't. Most Mexicans want to work here and go home, like the Spanish and Greek immigrants who worked in Europe a generation ago.

We have to make it possible for them to work here and go home again.

Furthermore, they're not Muslims, so they're not interested in overruning us. They just want money, which their corrupt, dysfunctional (but resource and labor rich) country is apparently incapable of providing. We need to put more pressure on Mexico to clean up its act, but no president has ever had the courage to do that. Mexico is technically a socialist country, which means in reality that it is an oligarchy, and it has all the problems associated with such a structure.

Heck, I'd be wading across the Rio Grande too if I had the misfortune to be a Mexican.