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Europe
Chirac Calls Security Meeting Over Riots
2005-11-06
French President Jacques Chirac called a security meeting of his top ministers Sunday after urban rioting spread _ with arsonists striking from the Mediterranean to the German border and into central Paris for the first time.

The meeting, planned for Sunday evening, came as Chirac faced mounting criticism from opposition politicians for not speaking publicly about the violence that has fanned out from Paris' tough northeastern suburbs.

more here for those who read French. It mentions, among other things, that Chirac has devoted a whole hour to this meeting and that de Villepin will have concrete proposals shortly. Meanwhile the head of the socialist party demands much more than compassionate speech. de Villepin is in consultation with teachers; Sarkozy praises the police. h/t No Pasaran
Posted by:lotp

#8  what's on the lunch menu?
Posted by: 2b   2005-11-06 16:58  

#7  Were Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakha invited....they know a lot about street trouble, etc?
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-11-06 15:34  

#6  A meeting! Will surrender be discussed?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-11-06 15:12  

#5  So Chiraq is going to have a meeting, eh? Well, due to the corruption of the French govt, it was easy for my operatives in Paris to penetrate the records of the last emergency meeting. Lucily there were digital wmv files made of it, so my operatives emailed them to me in encrypted form. I have them now for all to view in plain wmv format. Note: These are graphic and not for young children.

THE FILES

If the link does not work, go to this site and click on the link, entitled,

View a clip of this Meeting Opener...
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-11-06 14:16  

#4  It'll take longer than a couple of hours to come up with a plan. At the very least, Chirac's cabinet will need to find the leader of the insurgency so that they can surrender properly to him.
Posted by: Thravilet Photing9369   2005-11-06 14:13  

#3  Issuing a strongly-worded statement should do the trick.
Posted by: gromky   2005-11-06 13:52  

#2  9days of rioting the air ports are sut down to paris (thier in the middle of the ghetto) it is now spreading to neighboring towns,, and Chirac finaly has a freekin 1hour meeting with proposals shortley coming. My god. The french people are screwed if they dont dump Chirac and go right (hopefully not to the Faciast, Colonial right) they might as well start reading the Koran and learing Arabic.
Posted by: C-Low   2005-11-06 13:45  

#1  Wow, a whole hour?? Boy those Phrench don't mess around!
Posted by: cutty_ranks   2005-11-06 13:30  

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