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| First fatality in French 'unrest' |
| 2005-11-07 |
| A man beaten up during violence in a riot-hit suburb north of Paris died of his injuries on Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, who was attacked on Friday evening and had been in a coma since then, was the first person to die during the unrest that began on October 27. The ministry gave no details but Le Parisien newspaper said the man was 60 and had been attacked by a youth outside his home in the suburb of Stains. He was trying to put out a trash bin fire. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #10 2 b : not that I know. Jean-Jacques le Chenadec sounds more like a britanny name; just an average joe ho had his skull bashed in for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Note he might actually be the second death so far, they was a fire in an hotel in the 2 to 3 night at Besançon, and one person died. The investigators found evidence this was actually arson and may be related to the unrest. Also, from what I've read (I've not looked for confirmation or anything, an off-duty 21 years old policeman was found dead in front of his home with a wound in his head, could be related too, who knows?). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-07 18:41 |
| #9 yes..but was the victim Jewish? |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-11-07 17:26 |
| #8 "Now, it's going to swing into a higher gear (the effect og blood on Arabs makes sharks look like vegetarians)." Apparently, his killer is a black african, but in my bigoted worldview, there is still an at least 80%+ chance he's muslim. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-07 13:46 |
| #7 Now, it's going to swing into a higher gear (the effect og blood on Arabs makes sharks look like vegetarians). |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-11-07 12:35 |
| #6 "He was trying to put out a trash bin fire." Allan forbids putting out trash bin fires. |
| Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-11-07 11:13 |
| #5 After 11 days and wipy innifective response the French govenmeny ighyt as well run-up the white flag.They have lost. |
| Posted by: raptor 2005-11-07 10:42 |
| #4 No, I think they are quite proud of beating him. He dared to oppose them by trying to put out a fire they had set. Re: Crips & Bloods - I lived in LA during the cocaine gang wars. It was bloody. Things may come to that in France sooner than anyone would like, I fear. Let's hope not. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-11-07 09:09 |
| #3 I'm sure the "youth" will say he was the victim of a vicious old guy with a garden hose. Or a victim of society, or some other crap like that. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-11-07 09:06 |
| #2 The Crips and the Bloods are laughing. The French call this a riot? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-11-07 09:00 |
| #1 In Kentucky, if we have a problem with coyotes, we shoot one and hang it on the fence. The smell (and probably the sight) of the the rotting coyote scares all the others away. Maybe the french should get their old shotguns out of the closet and hang themselves a coyote of their own on the fence. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-11-07 08:46 |