"Riots"
Rampaging youths shot at police and firefighters yesterday...What are these "youths" doing with guns in France? I thought they had gun control. I thought France had cured the problem of gun violence.
The riots started Oct. 27...
By Wednesday night, violence triggered by the deaths had spread to at least 20 Paris-region towns...
Nine persons were injured in Seine-Saint-Denis and 315 cars burned...
...youth gangs set fire to a Renault car dealership and burned at least a dozen cars, a supermarket and a local gymnasium.
Traffic was halted yesterday morning on a suburban commuter line linking Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport after stone-throwing rioters attacked two trains overnight...
Now that, my friend, is a riot.
Mr. de Villepin's major political rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday that the riots in several Paris suburbs over the previous night were "not spontaneous" but rather "well organized," Agence France-Presse reported. "What we saw in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis overnight was not spontaneous, it was perfectly organized. We are looking into by whom and how," Mr. Sarkozy told French news channel I-Tele.
Nah, it's just a riot. In 20 towns. Shutting down commuter trains.
The unrest has highlighted the division between France's big cities and their poor suburbs, with frustration simmering in the housing projects in areas marked by high unemployment, crime and poverty. The violence also cast doubt on the success of France's model of seeking to integrate its large immigrant community by playing down differences between ethnic groups. The country's Muslim population, at an estimated 5 million, is Western Europe's largest. Rather than feeling embraced as full and equal citizens, immigrants and their French-born children complain of police harassment and of being refused jobs, housing and opportunities.
Yeah, I think we need to look to France for guidance.
posted by The Man @ 3:37 PM
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