Hundreds of cars torched overnight (guess which country...)

Reuters ^ | 1/1/2007

[StoneGiant]

Hundreds of cars torched overnight

From correspondents in Paris

January 01, 2007 10:18pm

Article from: Reuters


VANDALS set fire to about 400 cars overnight and police said they arrested more than 250 people, as violence marred France's New Year celebrations.

However, a police spokesman said there were fewer problems than in 2005, when youths attacked trains in the Paris region and southeast of the country.

25,000 police were on duty throughout the country during the night, including 4500 in Paris, where the authorities banned fireworks and firecrackers.

Police said that they had arrested 258 people nationwide by early morning, including two children aged eight and 10 who set fire to dustbins in the eastern city of Strasbourg.

Three children aged between 10 and 12 were arrested in a Paris suburb after they were caught carrying cans of petrol.

In the capital itself, almost 400,000 people welcomed in the New Year on the Champs Elysees and at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, where no serious incidents were reported.

Setting cars on fire has become a regular event in France during New Year's Eve celebrations, especially in the deprived suburbs that ring many cities.

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“Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil.”

[pke]

Muslims love the smell of frog burning.

[RightOnline]

"...especially in the deprived suburbs that ring many cities."

Sigh...........just gotta love Reuters, doncha?

They mean "Muslim-dominated slums" when they euphemistically say "deprived suburbs", and what exactly are they being "deprived" of? Who is "depriving" them?

OK OK, we all know that they are "deprived" of common sense, humanity, intelligence, work ethic, etc.....but I don't think that is what the 'author' of this drivel is referring to.

[Zeppelin]

We should start complaining to the news services when they mis-identify these perpetrators of violence as "youths". They're Muslims and the sooner the media starts identifying them as such, the sooner people will get what the Muslims are all about.

whoa, back up.

you mean, those werent 'disaffected youths' behind 9/11 ?...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

France needs seaports. Round these people up and send them to North Africa.

[Brilliant]

The Vandals, of course, were European barbarians. There is more truth in the sentence than you might suppose.

[riverdog]

ah the wonders of "diversity"

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

".especially in the depraved suburbs that ring many cities."

[USS Alaska]

Just the "yoots" having a little fun.

[jdm]

Hundreds of cars torched overnight (guess which country...)

Thailand?

[Basheva]

My husband is always telling me that people get the government they deserve.

France gets a government that appeases....because...they've appeased tyrants - even their own home grown ones.

[dfwgator]

I figured it would have been raucous Boise State fans.

[AFreeBird]

France needs a Giuliani Guillotine.

:-))

Slight modification, hope you don't mind.

[Lee'sGhost]

Beat you to that one.

[LonePalm]

I understand it totaled several hundred euros in damage.

That being said I do not think it was "French" people doing the vandalizing. The signature block says it all.

Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Sicon]

VANDALS?

Hmmm, "Vandals"... Are they sure it wasn't those pesky Visigoths, or maybe the Huns?

Politically correct suicidal p*ssies.

[Gritty]

[sheik yerbouty]

Al Franqistan aka Franqistan's Monster..

[dforest]

France needs a Guillotine.

There would probably many Muslims apply for that job. Problem is it wouldn't just be reserved for criminals.

[guppas]

I remember last year toward the end of the riots they said 250 cars were burned the previous night. They said that wasn't bad because on a typical weekend night 200 cars were burned.

Don't worry about Iran getting atomic weapons. Worry about Europe becoming Islamic.

[SunkenCiv]

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