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| Yoepus |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051104...ance_rioting_35
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By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Nov 4, 6:58 AM ET
LE BLANC MESNIL, France - A wave of arson attacks in Paris' restive suburbs punctured what authorities said Friday was otherwise the first night of relative calm after a week of clashes between riot police and angry youths.
Officials said at least 400 cars were torched in the Paris region, an increase from previous nights. But there were fewer direct clashes with riot police who were deployed in force across the suburbs north of Paris following Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's vow to restore order.
"The peak is now behind us," Gerard Gaudron, mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, one of the worst-hit suburbs, told France-Info radio. He said parents were determined to keep their teenagers at home to prevent unrest. "People have had enough. People are afraid. It's time for this to stop."
But reports of unrest also surfaced north of Paris in the Normandy region and to the east in Burgundy, according to France-Info radio.
Small-scale suburban violence and car-torchings are a regular, though largely unreported, fact of life in troubled suburbs of Paris and other French cities dominated by low-income housing projects marked by unemployment and delinquency. What sets the current unrest apart is its duration, and the way it rapidly ignited beyond the original flash point of Clichy-sous-Bois in northeast Paris.
The unrest started Oct. 27 when angry youths took to streets over the accidental deaths of two teenagers — Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17 — electrocuted in a power substation where they were hiding from police.
Traore's brother, Siyakah Traore, called Friday for youths to "calm down and stop ransacking everything."
"This is not how we are going to have our voices heard," he said on RTL radio.
In the troubled region of Seine-Saint-Denis northeast of the capital, arson attacks destroyed 187 vehicles and five buildings, including three sprawling warehouses, said the region's top government official, Prefect Jean-Francois Cordet.
However, Cordet said in a statement that police reported seeing fewer large groups of youths rioting and, "contrary to the previous nights, there were fewer direct clashes with the forces of order."
A commuter train line that links Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport northeast of the capital was still running a scaled-back service Friday after two trains were targeted Wednesday night. The SNCF train authority said one in five trains was running and conductors of night trains were demanding onboard security.
Youths fired buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, further east, and a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue in Stains where a city bus was torched and a school classroom partially burned, said Cordet.
A bus depot was set on fire to the west of Paris in the town of Trappes, incinerating 27 buses, authorities said.
The unrest was scaled-back from the sometimes ferocious rioting of previous nights. In overnight clashes Wednesday, rioters in three towns fired live bullets at police and firefighters, none of whom were injured.
The rioting has grown into a broader challenge for the French state. It has laid bare discontent simmering in suburbs that are heavily populated by poor African Muslim immigrants and their French-born children, many trapped by poverty, crime and poor education.
France's Muslim population, an estimated 5 million, is Western Europe's largest. But rather than being embraced as equal citizens, immigrants and children often complain of police harassment and job discrimination. |
In the WSJ today I also read that in the spirit of French socialism "interns" will revolt Nov 17th too! Oh fun!
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| HardTranceProd |
The title of your topic is misleading: "French Kill People."
It should be: "Poor Immigrant Youth Cause Disorder."
I assure you that most French people are doing very well.
By the way, with regard to the general sarcasm expressed here about France. When Americans learn to make food products as delicious (and organic) as in France, and when American women learn to be as sexy and beautiful as French women, then we'll resume this conversation.
Until then -- the Americans are actually doing worse than the French. They're stressed out, engaged in "culture wars," don't know how to relax and enjoy life, and are balding and dying of heart attacks sooner than their French counterparts. |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by HardTranceProd
The title of your topic is misleading: "French Kill People."
It should be: "Poor Immigrant Youth Cause Disorder."
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News titles are supposed to be misleading!:whip:
:p
Still people died in France.. so somehow French people are dying..:clown: |
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| h0tsweetbabyd0l |
| Yoepus change the title of your thread .....now people reading the threads may think we actually kill people and we don't ! so change it for why not intolerable riots cuz yeah we can't accept this ......if it goes on we'll have to send army :p no seriously this situation sucks and read my post ! |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l
Yoepus change the title of your thread .....now people reading the threads may think we actually kill people and we don't ! so change it for why not intolerable riots cuz yeah we can't accept this ......if it goes on we'll have to send army :p no seriously this situation sucks and read my post ! |
fine Ms. Andrew:rolleyes: |
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| h0tsweetbabyd0l |
| Im St_andrew 's clone :p |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
fine Ms. Andrew:rolleyes: |
Fu I have nothing to do with this! I'm just an innocent victim! :p |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Fu I have nothing to do with this! I'm just an innocent victim! :p |
Its all the sheep you've been sleeping around with!:mad:
You must of slept with Dolly and she must of cloned you!:eek:
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| bass drive |
| quote: | Originally posted by h0tsweetbabyd0l
Im St_andrew 's clone :p |
nooo
bring back the sexy avatar :( |
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| Moongoose |
| I was just about to point that out...therefore +1 :D |
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| George Smiley |
| quote: | Originally posted by HardTranceProd
By the way, with regard to the general sarcasm expressed here about France. When Americans learn to make food products as delicious (and organic) as in France |
Pah! Everyone knows Indian/Pakistani food is the best in the world! |
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