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| 2005-11-14 | ||
| PARIS - The French government was to meet on Monday on whether to extend a state of emergency in a number of places to tackle more than two weeks of urban unrest as the number of attacks was dropping nationwide. An overnight curfew was still in force in 40 municipalities and authorities in the southeastern city of Lyon banned public gatherings in order to head off a repeat of clashes in the historic centre. Police said no incident was reported in Franceâs third-largest city Sunday afternoon but 15 cars were set ablaze during the day and three people who were carrying gasoline (petrol) were detained for questioning. In the region around the southern city of Toulouse 12 vehicles were torched and 10 people detained while 12 cars were set ablaze in the Paris suburbs. In the northeastern Alsace and Lorraine regions, nine cars were gutted by fire, compared to 13 the previous night. Since the start of the unrest 2,652 arrests have been made and 375 people have been sent to prison.
âThings should begin to get rapidly back to normal,â he added. According to figures compiled before the riots by the police intelligence service RG, some 28,000 cars were burned in the first 10 months of the year â making an average of 650 a week, most of which were destroyed at weekends. The centre of Paris remained calm after the authorities banned public meetings there on Saturday, fearing an influx of youth gangs from the suburbs. In the end there was no sign of trouble, and the capitalâs outskirts were also relatively quiet. A government official also spoke of cautious optimism. âWe were expecting a hot night, but it was not as busy as he feared. We feared problems in Paris but there were none. The slowdown is now established, and things should be easier to control,â the senior official said. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 It's also because the third of the month used to be hell at banks. Once worked as a teller the day after Labor Day when it was the third. Made me want to scream like Howard Dean. Welfare checks and Social Seucurty checks came out at the same time and the banks were not good places to be. I especially liked it when after they cashed their social security check, they would ask to have the interest posted to their savings pass book. And then decide to deposit $10.00 to savings. And right behind them would be some junkie hopping around, really needing to score as he had run out of cash a week before. Probably a lot of muggings outside the banks, not to mention stolen checks with forged endorsements and false claims of forged endorsements made it a lot cheaper to go to direct deposit. |
| Posted by: Hupereter Slavith3888 2005-11-14 16:33 |
| #8 Yeah, I think they do it the same way here in the People's Republic. Don't want to "stigmatize" them by making them walk down to the mailbox or stand in line or something grueling like that. It is more about the fact that the filling and processing of checks (even before postal costs) is hideously expensive: about 15 cents versus near zero when handling is purely electronic. 15 cents multiplied by a billion makes for some real money. BTW it works also on the reverse: income taxes and some bills can (not must, can) be paid like this. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-11-14 16:17 |
| #7 Yeah, I think they do it the same way here in the People's Republic. Don't want to "stigmatize" them by making them walk down to the mailbox or stand in line or something grueling like that. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-11-14 12:16 |
| #6 Welfare checks coming out? Don't think Pierre Ze Mailman will be too hot delivering them if he's gonna get his head kicked in. Unfortunately in France it doesn't work that way: you provide your bank account number to the welfare organism and then every month the money is transferred automatically to your account. Pierre ze Mailman is not involved. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-11-14 11:55 |
| #5 Direct deposit confirmed on Minitel, the french internet. |
| Posted by: Ebbanter Throth9218 2005-11-14 10:34 |
| #4 11/15 tomorrow? Welfare checks coming out? Don't think Pierre Ze Mailman will be too hot delivering them if he's gonna get his head kicked in. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-11-14 10:33 |
| #3 Spot on, JFM. |
| Posted by: mac 2005-11-14 10:28 |
| #2 50 million euros wisely expended in providing weapons to law abiding citizens could do lots to improve the situation. |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-11-14 10:27 |
| #1 The EU better think that 50 million euro release again. Multiply that by many more if the jihadi enclaves in other countries go bananas and the EU treasury will be broke from appeasement in a New York Minute. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-11-14 00:21 |