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French youths fire on police in overnight clashes
Reuters ^ | Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:01pm IST | Pascal Rossignol

Posted on 08/14/2012 7:35:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Youths fired buckshot at police in clashes in the French city of Amiens overnight on Tuesday, torching cars and a nursery school in a resurgence of urban unrest that President François Hollande said he would do everything to confront. …

Officials said 16 police officers were hurt in the disturbances, some struck by buckshot others hit by a hail of missiles thrown by around 100 youths who gathered in northern districts of Amiens.

One officer was in a serious condition, the city's Socialist Mayor Gilles Demailly told Reuters. …

As mayor of a racially mixed suburb before being appointed to Hollande's government, (Interior Minister Manuel) Valls served more than 10 years ago as a spokesman for Socialist former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whose 2002 presidential election defeat was partly put down to his image as soft on law and order.

Tensions remain high in many French suburbs, where poor job prospects, racial discrimination, a widespread sense of alienation from mainstream society and perceived hostile policing have periodically touched off violence. …

(Excerpt) Read more at in.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amiens; france; socialism; youthriot
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1 posted on 08/14/2012 7:35:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Give those Finns too much vodka.....


2 posted on 08/14/2012 7:36:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Word Is Out,Harry Reid's Into Child Porn.Release All Your Photos,Harry!)
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To: Olog-hai

Where’s the guy who FIXES the headers? Someone forgot ‘MUSLIM TERRORISTS’


3 posted on 08/14/2012 7:37:47 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Doc Savage

It’s al-Reuters.


4 posted on 08/14/2012 7:38:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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What were the demographics of these rioters? “Youths” is generally Eurospeak for violent muslims.


5 posted on 08/14/2012 7:39:14 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Olog-hai; Cincinna
http://icrontic.com/uploads/features/tech/2011/09/nothing_to_see_here.jpg

The Arabian Night will be a long one in France, do they have what it takes to stave it off?

6 posted on 08/14/2012 7:41:44 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Normalcy results in the creation of life, Sodomy results in AIDS)
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To: Olog-hai

Gilles Demailly, the mayor of Amiens, told AFP the violent response to the incident reflected a descent into lawlessness orchestrated by ever younger troublemakers.

“There have been regular incidents here but it has been years since we’ve known a night as violent as this with so much damage done,” the mayor said.

Demailly, a member of Hollande’s Socialist Party, added: “For months I’ve been asking for the means (to alleviate the neighbourhood’s problems) because tension has been mounting here.

“You’ve got gangs of youths playing at being gangsters who have turned the area into a no-go zone. You can no longer order a pizza or get a doctor to come to the house.”

Hollande’s government has identified the northern quarter of Amiens as one of 15 “priority security zones” across the country which will be established from September.

The emphasis will be on tougher policing rather than on schemes to alleviate the impact of record unemployment and falling real incomes for the poorest sections of society.

http://www.france24.com/en/20120814-amiens-riots-spark-fears-economic-unrest-france-police-unemployment-underprivileged


7 posted on 08/14/2012 7:41:59 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

I did not know there were Amish in France?


8 posted on 08/14/2012 7:43:54 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Josef Stalin))
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To: Olog-hai

If one removes the liberal “truth filter,” the following one for one word substitution can be made:

Youths = muslims

No more need be said.


9 posted on 08/14/2012 7:44:55 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

"Miss me yet?"

10 posted on 08/14/2012 7:45:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: circlecity
My sister-in-law who lives in France says the “youths” are immigrants mostly from Muslim countries.
11 posted on 08/14/2012 7:45:38 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: dfwgator

Mr. Netanyahu-Is-A-Liar?


12 posted on 08/14/2012 7:47:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: dfwgator

Monsieur Netanyahu-Is-A-Liar?


13 posted on 08/14/2012 7:47:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Tensions remain high in many French suburbs, where poor job prospects (No jobs + some people are just plain unemployable), racial discrimination (They always say that), a widespread sense of alienation from mainstream society (Some demographics refuse to integrate) and perceived hostile policing (Actually telling the "Youths" to cut it out) have periodically touched off violence (As if they need an excuse).

14 posted on 08/14/2012 7:48:09 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Gabrial
My sister-in-law who lives in France says the “youths” are immigrants mostly from Muslim countries.

Yep. Most native French youth fill-up on as much Government funded education as they can get, and then begin applying to emigrate to some other country where they might be able to find an actual job.

15 posted on 08/14/2012 7:49:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

The “French” have guns?

Only the “Muslim” youth would know how to fire a weapon.

It’s that “Religion of Peace” thing.....


16 posted on 08/14/2012 7:49:59 AM PDT by G Larry (Progressives are Regressive because their objectives devolve to the lowest common denominator.)
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To: certrtwngnut
This Holland SOB shanelessly courted the Muslim vote. It's what put the miserable Far Left Wing Anus in Office.

Now the Worthy Oriental Gentlemen can't understand why they can't all have a French Girlfriend and a new Peugeot. Surprise, surprise. The Frogs need to send some buckshot the other way in these bainleus where even their pussified cops fear to go.

Put some muzzie teeth in the street, Froggie, and put what's left of their former owners on planes back to Muslim Africa.

Worthy Oriental Gentlemen out, before it's too late, Euroweenies.

17 posted on 08/14/2012 7:50:14 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Choose: Ineligible Muslim Marxist Mad Dog or Mild-Mannered Mormon Milquetoast)
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Coming soon to a country near you!

We must understand that Islam is incompatible with civilization.

18 posted on 08/14/2012 7:50:39 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (All Y'all White Peoples is racist!)
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To: Olog-hai

The French need to ;earn to embrace and celebrate diversity. It’ll be their strength.


19 posted on 08/14/2012 8:12:12 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Write this down Kato ...

Zee illegal Amish immigration has overtaken our historic ability
to simply out-surrender our opponents.

It is time to call out zee dogs of war!


20 posted on 08/14/2012 8:14:19 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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