Further rioting in Paris suburb

DuH2 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 12:46 AM

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Dozens of police officers have been injured during a second night of clashes between security forces and rioters in Paris.

Teens' deaths sparked violenceOfficials say at least 77 officers were injured after being attacked by French youths - some of whom carrying hunting weapons - in the suburb of Villiers-le-Bel.

Officers were shot at, targeted with petrol-bombs and pelted with bricks and stones.

Cars, trucks and police cars were set on fire, and police fought back by firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

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President Nicolas Sarkozy, visiting China, has appealed for calm.

The trouble, which began on Sunday, was sparked when two teenagers were killed in a crash with a police car earlier.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...294458,00.html

Sarkozy wil not play nice.
The police of France have been wanring that gangs of immigrants are armign themselves. This tends to prove that. They wil demand he act.

I'm sure the French people don't want another round of this BS nor a government that sits around jerking off while it does occur.

Sarkozy was for a hardline before..If it doesn't settle on its own and fast... he will crackdown with a police not only willing to do it but now vengeful.

If he doesn't and pulls another Chirac...well then theres the National Front.
http://www.frontnational.com/

They have a solution. Expulsion.

Blade · #2 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 01:40 AM

Sarkozy made clear his opinion during the last riots, calling them "racaille" (riffraff, rabble). Now is the time for him to go in and kick azz. Does the whole western world ALWAYS have be held hostage to the threats and violence of islamist thugs?

Daybreaker · #3 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 11:09 AM

Why do you guys think these people are rioting, again?

JP5 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Daybreaker";p=&quot

Why do you guys think these people are rioting, again?

Mainly----because a lot of them are freeloaders and don't want to go to work. They want to be able to do as they please and have big daddy government take care of them.

Daybreaker · #5 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 11:28 AM

I thought it had something to do with a couple of kids being killed by cops.

Liberty · #6 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Daybreaker";p=&quot

Why do you guys think these people are rioting, again?

Why do you think it matters? They're burning houses and cars and are shooting at police and firefighters.

JP5 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Daybreaker";p=&quot

I thought it had something to do with a couple of kids being killed by cops.

It's more than that. That's an excuse to riot. When such an accident happens here we don't riot.

Diamondback · #8 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 04:25 PM

I heard it was to students ran into the back of a cop car with their moped and were killed.

I think if i were the French Government i would have the known rioters arrested and deported

SenaxFlatulus · #9 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Daybreaker";p=&quot

I thought it had something to do with a couple of kids being killed by cops.

I hate to disappoint, but apparently it was just an accident. The following is taken from the source in the original post of this thread...

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The trouble began on Sunday when two teenagers were killed in a crash with a police car.

The pair, aged 15 and 16, were riding a stolen motorbike.

"It was not a chase but apparently a traffic accident," a police source said.

DuH2 · #10 (**permalink**) 11-27-2007, 06:50 PM

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Paris suburb riots called 'a lot worse' than in 2005
News Analysis
By Elaine Sciolino Published: November 27, 2007

PARIS: The rituals and acts of rage have an eerie sameness to them: roving gangs of angry youths clashing with the riot police in France's edgy suburbs, the government appealing for calm, local officials and residents complaining that their problems are ignored.

Two years after an orgy of violence in which rioters in more than 300 suburbs and towns torched cars, trashed businesses and ambushed the riot police and firefighters, Villiers-le-Bel and several nearby suburbs of Paris similarly have erupted in violence and destruction.

In one sense, the unrest seems to be more menacing than during the early days of the three weeks of rioting in 2005. Then, the youth seemed disorganized, their destruction largely caused by rock-throwing and arson and aimed at the closest and easiest targets, like cars. This time, hunting shotguns, as well as gasoline bombs and rocks, have been turned on the police.

"From what our colleagues on the scene tell us, this is a situation that is a lot worse than what we saw in 2005," Patrice Ribeiro, a police officer and senior union official, told RTL radio Tuesday. He added, "A line was crossed last night, that is to say, they used weapons, they used weapons and fired on the police. This is a real guerrilla war."

Ribeiro warned that the police, who have struggled to avoid excessive force, would not be fired upon indefinitely without responding.

More than 80 police officers already have been wounded the clashes, several of them seriously, Ribeiro said later by telephone. Thirty of them were hit with pellets from shotguns, and one of the wounded was hit with a type of bullet used to kill large game, he added. It is legal to own a shotgun in France - as long as the owner has a license - and police circles were swirling with rumors that the bands of youth were procuring more shotguns.

It is impossible to predict whether the violence will continue and spread to the much larger cluster of Parisian suburbs around the town of Seine-Saint-Denis, the area where violence was concentrated in 2005, or to the rest of the country.

But the events of the past three days make clear that the underlying causes of frustration and anger - particularly among unemployed, undereducated youth, mostly the offspring of Arab and African immigrants - remain the same.

"We have heard promise after promise, but nothing has been done in the suburbs since the last riots, nothing," said François Pupponi, the Socialist mayor of Sarcelles, which has been struck by violence. "The suburbs are like tinderboxes. You have people in terrible social circumstances, plus all the rage, plus all the hate, plus all the rumors and all you need is one spark to set them on fire."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/...s.php#end_main

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