Posted on 11/09/2005 5:30:27 PM PST by familyop
Paris, 9 Nov. (AKI) - The French interior minister has ordered the deportation of all foreigners arrested for taking part in the riots that have wracked the country over the last two weeks. Almost a thousand people have been arrested in the last three nights alone in violence which has mostly broken out in deprived areas with large African and Arab immigrant communities. Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial decision follows the granting of emergency powers to the police and local authorities to impose night-time curfews in an effort to tackle the unrest.
Since the government decree on the curfews came into force at midnight on Tuesday night a state of emergency has been declared in more than 30 towns and cities around France.
However, police said the level of violence nationwide was already lower than in previous nights, with only 600 cars torched, compared to 1,408 on Sunday night and 1,173 on Monday. On Sunday night two police officers were seriously injured in one Paris suburb when they were attacked by a mob of around 200, shooting and throwing stones.
The unrest began on 27 October in the impoverished Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, after two young people said to have been running away from the police were accidentally electrocuted at an electricity sub-station. The violence quickly spread to communities in other cities around France and claimed its first victim on Monday when a 61-year-old French man died, several days after he was beaten by a rioter while trying to protect his property.
The riots have sparked intense debate in France about integration. They have mostly taken hold in areas where unemployment is high and residents say they are the victims of discrimination and racism.
Sarkozy's order is sure to cause further controversy in France, where opposition parties have already expressed concern over the damage to civil liberties that the emergency powers represent. However, far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen told BBC radio he believes the rioters should have their French citizenship revoked. "If their grandparents came to France thinking France was an El Dorado, they can always go back to their countries of origin," he said.
;-)
It does little good to simply send a trouble-maker abroad.
Most of the rioters were born and raised in France, from what I have heard. Where could they deport them to?!
YOWZA!
There actually is a Frenchman with a brain!!
Who wouldda thunk?
(this has got to be a joke..right?)
i think sharia law should be used in punishing the muzzies. Off with their limbs and heads!!
The French are very careful to keep track of such things.
Accdg to one Minister, 'Just because they have a French Identity Card doesn't make them French'. They'll deport them to parent's homeland.
Here's a good one from the Telegraph (UK)
Sarkozy orders expulsion of foreign rioters
By Colin Randall in Paris and Henry Samuel in Bobigny
(Filed: 10/11/2005)
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/10/wfran10.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/10/ixnewstop.html
Progressing.
In Australia the government is discussing the eventual deportation of all problematic moslems (I'm being tactful) who have dual citizenship.
We haven't begun to talk about STRIPPING them of Aussie citizenship YET!
NOW HE'S TALKING MY LANGUAGE!
SARKOZY FOR PRESIDENT!
Awwwww. C'mon. He doesn't have any love.
President Bush May Send Up To 5 Marines For French Assistance
President Bush has authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a battle plan to pull France's ass out of the fire again. Facing an apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 pissed off teenagers Mr. Bush doubts France's ability to hold off the little pissants.
"Hell, if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France to surrender any day now", said Bush.
Joint Chiefs head, Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that it might be necessary to send up to 5 marines to get things under control. The general admitted that 5 marines may be overkill but he wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on scene. He stated he was having a hard time finding even one marine to help those ungrateful bastards out for a third time but thought that he could persuade a few women marines to do the job before they went on pregnancy leave.
President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our marines out of there as soon as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace to make sure the marines did not take soap, razors, or deodorant with them. The least they stand out the better.
Sarkozy: Bad Cop
There really is nothing new under the sun.
Things in Iraq just might settle down if the insurgents are heading to France.
"Most of the rioters were born and raised in France, from what I have heard. Where could they deport them to?!"
Why, don't you know? To America, of course....
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