Posted on 10/27/2006 1:45:22 PM PDT by SmithL
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- Police deployed 4,000 reinforcements as marauding youths torched at least two public buses Friday, the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France.
After the buses were burned, Paris' transport authority curtailed bus service in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of the capital, which is home to thousands of immigrants and their French-born children.
Thierre Ange, a 19-year-old witness, said four men attacked the bus, "made everyone get off, then they hit a woman and dragged out the bus driver by his tie" and torched the bus with a gasoline bomb in a bottle. The blackened carcass of another bus that was burned earlier stood across town in Le Blanc Mesnil.
Flaming cars became a symbol of the rioting last year, which jolted France into recognizing a failure to give equal opportunities to many minorities — especially those of Arab and black African origin — and the country's 5 million-strong Muslim population.
The national police said 50 units of extra officers and riot police — or about 4,000 men — were deployed across the country to brace for a possible resurgence of violence. Some 7,000 police are at the ready on an average night in France, officials have said.
The outburst of anger at the accidental deaths of the two teens — who were electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois while hiding from police on Oct. 27, 2005 — grew into a broader challenge of the French state.
Several hundred people marched silently Friday through Clichy-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris, in honor of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore. Benna, 17, was buried in his father's native Tunisia. Traore, 15, was of Mauritanian descent.
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The Religion of Peace meets the Axis of weasels!
Only two? Must have miffed the mufti. Their probably just getting 'warmed up' though.
Flaming cars became a symbol of the rioting last year, which jolted France into recognizing a failure to give equal opportunities to many minorities — especially those of Arab and black African origin — and the country's 5 million-strong Muslim population.
wow
Thats what the Ap wants you to think, dont fall for the spin
Sorry, used to quotes or italics being used to denote a quote.
TROP Action Alert ping!
I suppose these 'marauding youths who torched at least two public buses Friday' are Muslims...
The poor cheese eating surrender monkeys........
10-4
More global warming as a result of human activity. Next time I see a melting glacier, I'll be sure to blame a moslem.
Or perhaps the European French recognize that they're depopulating themselves out of existence through their low birth rate, and have decided it's easier to go under than to fight for their culture and heritage.
In 100 years France may look like another Islamic third-world country--shabby, unkempt, and desolate. No Eiffel Tower, Louvre, or Arc de Triumph to mark the spot where Paris stood for 1500 years.
If they don't have enough pride to fight for their own country, perhaps they deserve to disappear.
Are the French EVER going to wise up and throw the Islamofascists out or just start shooting them?
If you read Mark Steyn you get depressed because Europe is doomed demographically to become extinct. How can a whole race of people have a suicide wish or just do nothing?
The twin evils of the world leftism and Islam. Depressing.
The 4000 french police stood around in a large circle for participation in a mass circle jerk.
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