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| Paris : resistance to police controls and expulsion grows, a street riot |
| 2005-10-09 |
| In a worrying move for the Sarkozy police, opposition grows far beyond the circle of activists. A street riot erupted on tuesday when police started again to embark "sans papier" ("illegal" immigrants) at "Chateau-Rouge" in central Paris. As this had been going on for weeks, alerts were again promptly posted on Paris Indymedia, but this time, activists who had been able to go there to protest were happily surprised to find support from the local population, who joined in action, so much so that the police could only retreat. People have been shocked recently by the brutal treatment of "sans-papiers", and also the repression campaign that followed on the three dramatic building fires of this summer in Paris, killing mainly immigrants : people continue to be brutally expelled by the police from supposedly insecure building, without prior notice. These are not squats (repression against squats is also accelerating of course) but flats were people pay rent, in some cases have lived there over 48 years, to be left one morning in the street with nothing more that the next night offered. It's Indymedia. Who knows? |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 Great report, 5089. Keep them coming. |
| Posted by: jolly roger 2005-10-09 17:47 |
| #6 Indymedia = full blown anarchist Indymedia = the man is always repressing us. Indymedia = total bull shit. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-10-09 16:26 |
| #5 NB: When an indymidiot talks about "repression" he means the law is being enforced against those who break it. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-10-09 15:27 |
| #4 (IE "unlawful places") anonymous5089, I think this might be better translated as "law-free zones". But a really good comment -- you are always a fount of information. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-09 15:26 |
| #3 This has been evoked in other french sites. Note the important thing here is that police had to retreat, vanquished, as it unfortunately often does. Mind you, there are about 800-1000 "zones de non-droit" (IE "unlawful places"), where the State authority cannot be enforced anymore, and where the police, firefighters, EMT,... cannot go into anymore without an excessive show of force nad/or rapid in-out raids, since it is met with stoning, rioting and firebombing. In France they are called "ghettoes", which is very unappropriate, since historically ghettoes where place where minorities where forcibly kept IN; here, we're rather talking about bastions, with a parallel underground economy (based on drug, 80% of which coming from North Africa, notanbly Morocco), parallel legal system (based on charia and gang culture),... and from where "ethnic french" are pressured out (due to insecurity, anti-white racism, that kind of thing), with "french" shops being replaced by hallal butcheries, kebab,... Just a statistic : there are about 30 000 cars torched every years, for a pop of about 60 millions! And this is only the top of the iceberg, everything is done to minimize final result (partially burnt cars aren't included, collaterally burnt ones neithers,... There are schools, gymnasium torched, churches vandalized, (chrisitan or jewish) cemetaries desacrated... and this is NOT marginal; just a few days ago, there was a bombing (with wielding bottles) against the Limôges cathedral, with 14th century windows destroyed; perps were arrested, drunks, not even necessary muslims (though there are some indicatiosn they were, cf. the condename "youths"), but the prefect ordered a blackout on the info, which was not widely diffused (this was even described as an "accident") the rationale behind this media blackout being to avoid unrest... you see, the bombing occured the first night of ramadan... by the way, the breaking of the ramadan is "traditionally" accompanied with joyous riots, with muslim "youths" going on the rampage and causing trouble for no apparent reason; this is no urban legend, authorities are well aware of that nice tradition. France is losing sovereignty on its own soil, and it's only the beginning IMHO. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-10-09 12:10 |
| #2 Sarkozy is what passes as the right wing in France ... Indymedia types are happy to provoke violence and resentment among the illegals in order to bring him down, or at least prevent him from reforming social benefits and enforcing laws. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-10-09 10:25 |
| #1 So, there's actually a down-side involved with |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-10-09 00:32 |