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France reacts to 'shockwave of riots'(Paris/France burns Live Thread Night #12)
Times of London ^ | 11/07/05 | Simon Freeman, Charles Bremner

Posted on 11/07/2005 2:44:49 AM PST by Dane

French police made 395 arrests last night as riots intensified for the 11th consecutive night, with violence and fire engulfing towns from the North to the Mediterranean.

In the impoverished suburbs and satellite towns around Paris, where the unrest began on October 27, churches, schools and warehouses were set alight. At least 1,408 vehicles were destroyed, many more than on previous nights, and the random attacks have spread into the heart of the city.

In Grigny, south of the capital, a gang of around 200 youths are reported to have lured police into a housing estate before opening fire with hunting rifles. At least 30 officers were injured, two seriously with lead pellets in the legs and neck.

Riots broke out in beacons of disaffection across the country from Lille, on the border with Belgium, to Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast. In Toulouse, police used tear gas to disperse a mob. Cars were set alight on the streets of Nantes, Orleans, Rennes and Rouen, and youths in St Etienne forced passengers off a bus before burning it. Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete.

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In Strasbourg, youths stole a car and rammed it into a housing project, setting the vehicle and the building on fire. "We’ll stop when Sarkozy steps down," the defiant 17-year-old driver told an Associated Press reporter.

Police are calling for a night-time curfew in affected areas and some senior officers have demanded that troops are brought on to the streets.

Michel Gaudin, France's most senior police officer, said today: "We are witnessing a sort of shock wave that is spreading across the country."

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KEYWORDS: france; frenchifada; frenchweasels; hoodlums; insurgency; leintifada; ouihad; parisintifada; parisriots; punks; thugs; uprising; wot; yoots; youths
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To: Acts 2:38
Well, Villepaininthearse is working on a new bribery, er...social welfare package for the the poor and downtrodden. That takes a couple of weeks to ram through, you know. France can't be bribed in a day.
61 posted on 11/07/2005 4:25:10 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: BlackJack

You have to be careful of believing what you read in the papers...(although in fairness, this is inside a direct quote, but the headline isn't).

"In the past, when we have cracked down on these criminals in their homes, we found drugs, grenades and heavy weapons such as guns. While they haven't started using these arms yet, there's also no reason to think they wouldn't."

'Guns' (unless he is talking in terms of actual artillery, which I really, really doubt) means rifles, pitols and shotguns. None of these are 'heavy weapons' Words have meanings, and the press regularly butchers the meanings around firearms.


62 posted on 11/07/2005 4:29:15 AM PST by blanknoone (When will Europe understand there is no one willing to accept their surrender?)
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To: Dane

Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?


63 posted on 11/07/2005 4:29:20 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: 12B

"Makes total sense if you think about it." [Not to shoot.]

It's like some spoiled brat you never disciplined when he was young. He gets more brazen and dangerous every year. At some point, you've GOT to bite the bullet and crack down. Make'em or Break'em. I'd tell the French, IT'S YOUR COUNTRY, DAMMIT!


64 posted on 11/07/2005 4:30:21 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
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To: Fred Nerks; Vicomte13
Joblessness is the real cancer eating at France, and socialism does not cause it.

This one stuck out.

65 posted on 11/07/2005 4:31:08 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

"BB guns?"

It was a shotgun, from long distance.


66 posted on 11/07/2005 4:31:13 AM PST by blanknoone (When will Europe understand there is no one willing to accept their surrender?)
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To: Semper Paratus

"Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?"

Maybe Chirac threatened to boycott peanut butter if he did.


67 posted on 11/07/2005 4:31:42 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
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To: blanknoone

"It was a shotgun, from long distance."

Ah thank you. I was beginning to wonder. Buckshot, perhaps.


68 posted on 11/07/2005 4:32:48 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
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To: Dane

I have the solution to these riots. Import the Brit soccer hooligans, and German neonazi skin heads to come confront the mooligans. Arm the Brits and Germans with pipes, chains, broken bottles, etc; and fill em up with 10 or 15 pints before you set em loose.

It would be quite something.


69 posted on 11/07/2005 4:33:25 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Cops call that "pest control".


70 posted on 11/07/2005 4:34:18 AM PST by dasboot
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To: dasboot

I believe its Che with Mickey Mouse ears. The blogger seems like a good guy if I'm not mistaken.


71 posted on 11/07/2005 4:35:47 AM PST by Keme (Bush Contra Mundum)
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To: Stentor

"Joblessness is the real cancer eating at France, and socialism does not cause it." [The quote in question.]

That's what socialists honestly believe. A truly communist country can create jobs for everyone. The only problem is, the lack of passion about their work, and the trouble they have feeding themselves.


72 posted on 11/07/2005 4:35:48 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Every time the court veers left, the people are overwhelmingly opposed." [Laura Ingraham])
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To: Keme

AH! TX content was unavailable.


73 posted on 11/07/2005 4:37:13 AM PST by dasboot
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To: Borax Queen
In Grigny....a gang of around 200 youths are reported to have lured police into a housing estate before opening fire with hunting rifles....youths in St Etienne forced passengers off a bus before burning it.....In Strasbourg, youths stole a car and rammed it into a housing project, setting the vehicle and the building on fire......a population that has grown outraged over the rioting by youths, mainly of Arab and African origin.

The unrest started in the poor Paris suburb of lichy-sous-Bois, after the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. The youths were accidentally electrocuted....

youth

n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy)

rioter

n : troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority

Gee.....do you think they want us to think the rioters are youths?
74 posted on 11/07/2005 4:37:30 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: kittymyrib
Hummmm....why would these "poor, disaffected youths" be burning down CHRISTIAN churches? Inquiring minds want to know...but the press doesn't.

And reacting so mindlessly to the tear gas in the Mosque?

75 posted on 11/07/2005 4:37:42 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: dinoparty

Backhoe has coined a new moniker to replace MSM - ToM - Tired old Media.

It fits...


76 posted on 11/07/2005 4:38:04 AM PST by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: Dane

If France is unwilling to fight this cancer of Islam, it will die.


77 posted on 11/07/2005 4:38:55 AM PST by tomahawk
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To: Semper Paratus
Why isn't Jimmy Carter rushing over there to mediate?

I'm willing to send him in. Into one of these oppressed Paristinian ghettos, alone, on foot, at night.

Only Jimmuh can solve this.
78 posted on 11/07/2005 4:40:18 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: ken5050
Whwn will the burn down EuroDisney?

That would be the beginning of the end. You can mess with a lot of things in this world, but never mess with Disney.

79 posted on 11/07/2005 4:40:57 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Let's tear down the observatory so we never get hit by a meteor again!)
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To: mewzilla
Well, Villepaininthearse is working on a new bribery, er...social welfare package for the the poor and downtrodden.

With Dominique de Villepanties on the job, soon all will be well.
80 posted on 11/07/2005 4:45:07 AM PST by George W. Bush
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