Posted on 11/05/2005 6:31:49 PM PST by FairOpinion
Violence and arson spilled from the suburbs of Paris to at least 15 cities across France Saturday, as police and government officials struggled unsuccessfully for the 10th day to stem the expanding unrest.
Police said groups of young men torched nearly 900 vehicles and at least a dozen schools, police stations and youth centers around the country. Though the unrest remained concentrated in the poor suburbs ringing Paris, violence erupted in Strasbourg near the German border, Bordeaux in the southwest, Rouen in Normandy and Orleans in the Loire Valley.
Tactics were similar in all areas: mobile bands of youths setting random blazes, according to police and local news media accounts.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called eight ministers and a senior Muslim cleric to his offices in an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the violence, but President Jacques Chirac maintained his silence. Chirac has not publicly addressed the crisis since it began Oct. 27 after two teenagers from the Paris suburbs were electrocuted at a power substation while dodging a police checkpoint.
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Do these "young men" happen to be muslims?
the comments from the interior minister are interesting - they are just going to let it play out, let it run its course no matter how bad it gets.
France is too stupid to remain free, so they won't.
Sharia Islamic law will be in effect within 25 years.
We need to get French nukes out of their hands.
Sarkozy, the interior minister wanted to get tough, but he had to back off, because others in the French government didn't support his approach.
So let's see....
could it actually be that the French are guilty of crimes they claim only happen in the United States?
This is a liberal utopia state - why is there a poor at all? I thought the French had abolished it. I thought there were no poor people in France. I thought everyone was happy and that we should mimic the French.
So why is there discontent?????
Gives a whole new meaning to the "city of lights."
Sarkozy earlier advocated cracking down really hard, he was forced to back off from his tough stance.
Golly gee whiz, I sure hope this doesn't hurt France's tourism biz. I'd hate it if that happened.
Shoot to kill.
"Nicolas Sarkozy, the ambitious French interior minister, denounced the rioters as "scum" and vowed to "vacuum clean" the areas where the violence happened.
This was the cue for his foes (not least his rival to succeed the ailing Jacques Chirac as President, the absurdly vain Dominique de Villepin) to blame the trouble on Sarkozy's heavy-handed approach to policing. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/11/06/do0602.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/06/ixnewstop.html
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It's Sarkozy's fault, not the fault of the Muslim criminals.
Sounds familiar?
Some of the french are actually calling for Sarkozy's resignation to appease the rioters because they don't like him.
Since the riots are "organized" the calls for his resignation makes me wonder who is behind them to begin with.
Why is that, do you suppose? < / le sarcasme > From all the articles one reads, one would think that a Muslim would have nothing more to do with this than with the price of eggs in China. No doubt they overlooked that reference and let it slip through.
News Flash for Canada...
Take a look at France and Spain, you folks may be next.
We have a common Border, we may not be able to let you capitulate.
Now back to your regularly scheduled FR Thread
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And Chirac and the leftists smile, sip their wine, and watch...
I'd like to see this nonsense tried in America where we own 100 million personal firearms.
The same people who are involved in all political incitement across the globe - the leftists and the Muslims. Make a great team, don't they?
When will France sign a "peace" treaty with the Methodists?
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