French riot again

[HannibalBarka]

People are rioting and burning cars? where ? in Baghdad? Gaza? Budapest?

Ah, Paris, haven't seen any thing, and I live in Paris

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

It's because French people are racist. What a convenient answer for an average American.

When two wackos have assassinated people at random in hiding in a car in the Washington area few years ago, they've done so because Americans are racist. It's obvious. So when three guys burn a bus in Marseille, it's because French people are racist. How simple.

Uhhh, if memory serves, they were targeting people at random, yes. But they were Muslims "serving Allah" or whatever if I remember correctly.

Anything wrong what is done by a member of a minority is ALWAYS the fault of the majority. Remember that, it is the well-known 1st law of Political Correctness.

Politically correct, but not actually or realistically correct.

 

[De Lorimier]

Where did you guys get the information about "hundreds of burnt cars" this year? All I've seen is about three buses. Could you give me a link?

 

[skadistic]

People are rioting and burning cars? where ? in Baghdad? Gaza? Budapest?

Ah, Paris, haven't seen any thing, and I live in Paris

Maybe your little world is golden but if you bother to read this thread there are several links to the stupidity in France. Maybe your media doesn't cover it or you just chose to ignor it.

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[De Lorimier]

Nevermind - Delete

 

[Leonel]

I honestly do not understand why they are having so many riots. I dont recall a riot in the United States in years.

Well there was that 1993 riot in Los Angeles, but that was over 10 years ago and the only riots before that was during the civil rights and hippy era.

 

[MamboJoel]

Good comparison : the LA 1992 riots and the French "civil unrest" in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_civil_unrest_in_France

You guys call what happend in France riots, I think the LA ones were quite more productive in killing ~50 and injuring 2000.

 

[Leonel]

Good comparison : the LA 1992 riots and the French "civil unrest" in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_civil_unrest_in_France

You guys call what happend in France riots, I think the LA ones were quite more productive in killing ~50 and injuring 2000.

Oh I wasn't making a comparison at all! I was simply abiding the fellows curiosity in when there last was a US riot.

 

[Masquerouge]

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Those two guys who killed hiding in a car did it for Allah. They were Muslim, and it came out during the trial that they were doing jihad.

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=322


And here is a French paper saying it is 200 cars per night:

Spoiler :

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France sends riot police to Marseille By MICHEL ALLIONE, Associated Press Writer
Sun Oct 29, 3:33 PM ET



MARSEILLE, France - France's interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille on Sunday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman.

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French police braced for violence this weekend, the anniversary of last year's riots in poor neighborhoods where immigrants from former French colonies in Africa live with their French-born children on the fringes of society.

On Saturday, 46 people were taken into custody, most of them in the communities around Paris, and two police officers were slightly injured. The most serious violence was the brutal bus attack in Marseille.

A group of young people burst onto the bus and tossed in a bottle of flammable liquid before fleeing, police said, citing witnesses' accounts. The resulting fire injured a 26-year-old woman, who suffered second- and third-degree burns on her arms, legs and face and was in a medically induced coma on Sunday.

President Jacques Chirac telephoned the woman's family, ensuring them that France would "do everything to find the assailants and punish them with the greatest severity," his office said.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called a meeting for Monday on public transport safety, while Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's office said he was sending two extra companies of riot police to Marseille. Bus drivers in Marseille refused to return to work.

Though youths have burned other buses during flare-up of violence, passengers have generally escaped before the vehicles went up in flames. Another bus was burned Saturday in Trappes, outside Paris, but its passengers fled unharmed, police said.

The three weeks of rioting last year were fueled by anger at France's failure to offer equal chances to many minorities, including France's 5 million-strong Muslim population.

The rioting was sparked by the deaths of two teenagers who were electrocuted in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois on Oct. 27, 2005, where they were hiding after what they thought was a police chase.

For the anniversary of the teens' deaths, national police said about 4,000 extra police and riot officers were deployed across the country to cope with a possible resurgence of violence. Some 7,000 police are at the ready on an average night in France.

Aside from the bus attack in Marseille, the Interior Ministry said that both Friday and Saturday night were "relatively calm." Youths set fire to about 200 vehicles Saturday, police said. But even on ordinary nights, the number of cars burned often reaches 100.

France's trouble integrating minorities and the unrest in poor neighborhoods have become political priorities in the campaign for next year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

The government passed an equal opportunities law this spring and has poured in funds to its "sensitive" areas, but disenchantment continues.

Having links to those articles would be really great.

 

[Pyrite]

Oh I wasn't making a comparison at all! I was simply abiding the fellows curiosity in when there last was a US riot.

Seattle WTO protests weren't riots (certainly not everyone there was RIOTING but I know personally a few who were.

And miami? There were definitly riots at the miami WT summit.

I was teargassed in washington 2 years ago. Pretty sure that was a riot.

Riots happen in the states a lot.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Oh I wasn't making a comparison at all! I was simply abiding the fellows curiosity in when there last was a US riot.

Should hope not. There is no comparison. Those riots in France were and are cake walks compared to this riot.

 

[MamboJoel]

Should hope not. There is no comparison. Those riots in France were and are cake walks compared to this riot.

Quoted for truth.

 

[nivi]

Having links to those articles would be really great.

200 cars torched saturday night, almost 50 arrests, apperntly that is relatively calm.

 

[De Lorimier]

Quand on se compare, on se console.

The comparaison is still interesting. There are a few similarities. Tense situation between police and minorities in next-to-metropolis suburbs. Economic hardships based on allegations of racism and racial profiling. Dramatic triggering events. Rap music.

 

[Masquerouge]

200 cars torched saturday night, almost 50 arrests, apperntly that is relatively calm.

Thanks

And this is I believe a lot quieter than your average Detroit Pistons game

 

[MamboJoel]

Quand on se compare, on se console.

The comparaison is still interesting. There are a few similarities. Tense situation between police and minorities in next-to-metropolis suburbs. Economic hardships based on allegations of racism and racial profiling. Dramatic triggering events. Rap music.

Rap music ?

 

[De Lorimier]

That's a joke.

 

[theimmortal1]

I'm not sure what the big deal is. These Muslims are pissed off at the French government. Not really a surprise on a few fronts.

 

[emzie]

So erm, can a French poster tell me if these rio... disturbances are isolated to the cities of the rioters? Are the cars being torched their own cars?

 

[Steph]

Maybe your little world is golden but if you bother to read this thread there are several links to the stupidity in France. Maybe your media doesn't cover it or you just chose to ignor it.

If we read all the links about stupids things in France, we would need many hours every day!