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| Rioters use shotguns on French Police |
| 2005-11-06 |
| Al Jizz had the fuller story faster. Wonder why? Rioters have fired buckshot at police injuring 30 policemen, three of them seriously, in an 11th night of riots in France. Riot squad officers were hit by buckshot fired from pistols and hunting rifles in the suburb of Grigny, south of Paris, a police spokesperson said on Sunday. Two officers were being treated in hospital, one with lead shot wounds to the throat, the other with wounds to a leg. Twenty-seven others were treated on the spot. Some 200 youths also lobbed stones and other objects at police. One officer was slightly hurt by buckshot in nearby Draveil. A school and a kindergarten were set on fire in the same region, police said, adding that some 30 people were arrested. Asked whether the rioters could have killed someone, the spokesman said: "Probably not at this distance, but they could have caused bad injuries, or turn one of the officers blind." |
| Posted by:Jomolet Chavith6522 |
| #14 Busy killing native Ivorians in Chiraq's illegal war for chocolate being waged in the Ivory Coast. |
| Posted by: Hupeasing Jatch2629 2005-11-06 23:49 |
| #13 Heard an apologist for the French Gov say that they had sentenced 20 rioters they caught to six months and 1 year sentences.... Didn't hear a bit about hard labor or real sentences so it sounds like a nice vacation... Really the wrong message. Then the dimwhit sad is was Sarkozys fault as he called them bad names. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-11-06 23:46 |
| #12 Perhaps the allegation of Maurice Dantec on Quebec television that large arsenals of sophisticated heavy weaponry are stacked away in the French suburbs is also true. How to start the French Intifada in 4 easy steps: 1.) Wait for incident to ignite spontaneous riots in the ghettos. 2.) Once started organize them and sustain them from the backround thus keeping a young face on the rioters. 3.) Continue until government can do nothing other than respond with overwhelming force, killing many "angry yoots" in the process. 4.) After this, when the "yoots" come back to you really ticked off and pumped up from a month of nonstop rioting, instead of handing them a molotav cocktail hand them one of maching guns you've been stockpiling and send them on their way. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2005-11-06 23:00 |
| #11 I think the little kaks are emboldened at the lack of gov't response and will soon attack a French national treasure, such as the Notre Dame. What a religious statement that would make for the muzzies. They are conducting operations within a few blocks of it now. I think when this, or something similar happens you'll see French troops. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-06 22:59 |
| #10 You have to love accuracy in reporting..."buckshot fired from pistols and hunging rifles..." Aside from the solutions below, good sniper teams with orders to kill anyone using a weapon against police or innocent parties, or holding a Molotov Cocktail, should make thing real quiet, real quick. But, of course, since they are misguided, disaffected, "youths" that would be police brutality. Too bad the French public lacks the stones to demand action and results. |
| Posted by: Old Marine 2005-11-06 22:54 |
| #9 By the time this thing is over in France, they may be asking the Germans to come along WITH the police dogs. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-06 22:54 |
| #8 You go, Mom! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-11-06 22:49 |
| #7 "German police dogs" But won't that kick in their surrender reflex? Gee, that was cruel, cliche and tasteless. On mature reconsideration.... I don't really f**king care! Let let the cracks about cheese eating and simian surrendering flow freely! |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2005-11-06 22:36 |
| #6 I'm for 'vomit gas' and where it can't be used, German police dogs. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-06 22:06 |
| #5 I still say vomit gas would calm these clowns down, at least temporarily. It's hard to throw a gasoline bomb when you're barfing your guts up in the street. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-11-06 21:59 |
| #4 Thats right Mr. Spokesman, lead shot to the throat would never kill someone. Not at that range. Or would it be the police officer's fault for not having ducked fast enough? |
| Posted by: SJB 2005-11-06 21:25 |
| #3 Either the gendarmes are incredibly stupid or else they are incredibly stupid. Issue sidearms and institute a shoot-to-kill policy. Mobilize water cannons that disperse UV dye to tag all front line perpetrators and begin mass arrests. Clear the streets, declare a dusk-to-dawn curfew, cordon off the affected areas and shut off all utilities in neighborhoods where new unrest develops. The French government has fought long and hard to arrive at this day. They are so richly deserving of this that I may have to open some French Champagne to celebrate it. I can only hope the ordinary French citizen makes keen note of where their politicians' incessant appeasement and internicine squabbling has gotten them. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-06 21:13 |
| #2 Send in the French 1er Regt Para, it will all be over by morning. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-06 20:45 |
| #1 It's starting to spiral out of control. Now all we need is some boomers to get the party going with a bang. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-11-06 20:38 |