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| Union escort for protesting Paris students |
| 2005-03-22 |
| This happen a week ago, but saw no references to it. A preview of New Francistan. Thousands of French high-school students who demonstrated against the government in central Paris Tuesday were protected by an extensive security detail after violence and muggings that marred a similar march a week ago. Unions provided an escort of several hundred stewards and police controlled access to the route between Republique and Nation squares. The march passed off peacefully with only a handful of arrests. Hundreds of young rioters from poor Paris suburbs disrupted the demonstration on March 8, beating teenagers to the ground and stealing mobile telephones and cameras. Student leaders said that many pupils who would have demonstrated again against the government's education policies had been scared away by last week's violence. Police said 6,000 took part Tuesday compared to 9,000 on March 8. Le Monde newspaper carried disturbing interviews with attackers and victims in last week's trouble - both sides agreeing that the violence was exclusively carried out on white boys and girls by black and Arab teenagers. "If I went, it was not to demonstrate but to take telephones and beat people up. There were groups of people running about stirring things up, and in the middle these idiots - these little French people just asking for it," an 18-year-old of Tunisian origin called Heikel said. "We came to demonstrate against inequalities and we got beaten up. It's as if they thought that we - the "white Parisians " - had plenty of money, that we could buy a new mobile phone tomorrow," said Tristan Goldbronn, 16, who was badly hurt. Rest of article at link. I won't paste the whole article since it is from AFP. Therefore I will give them an acknowledgement by farting in their general direction. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 The union folks must've bumped into the kids on their way to their next strike... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-03-22 12:28:29 PM |
| #3 Unions provided an escort of several hundred stewards.. Was this outside of the 35 hour work week? Or was this escort provided during the 35 hour work week at employer expense? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-22 12:23:43 PM |
| #2 "....these little French people just asking for it...." "We came to demonstrate against inequalities and we got beaten up. O Sweet, sweet irony: welcome to the jungle Tristan. Maybe you can lecture the lions and tigers on social justice issues while you're there. Sure you can. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-03-22 12:15:38 PM |
| #1 Getting pretty grim, when's the explosion JFM? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-22 8:24:25 AM |