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2007-03-28 Europe

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Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Xavier, Claude, and Jean-Michel.

Posted by Or Perhaps Not 2007-03-28 00:22|| 2007-03-28 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 shoot. I have never been to Paris. It looks like I might have missed my chance.

Posted by Fester Jomons8988 2007-03-28 01:52|| 2007-03-28 01:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Officers and police dogs fired tear gas

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-28 06:17|| 2007-03-28 06:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Poodles are awesome.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-28 07:21|| 2007-03-28 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Coverage is interesting. This AP story has nothing on the origin of the yoots or the residents of the neighborhood, but does say:

The clashes began in midafternoon, and forced the closure of the station's subway and commuter lines for several hours. The station's long-distance rail hub and Eurostar terminal, which is attached to the subway station, remained open throughout.

They started after a man without a Metro ticket punched two inspectors during a routine ticket check, said officials from Paris' RATP public transport authority. Youths also attacked the inspectors and later turned on police patrolling the station, officials said.

"The inspectors were hit with projectiles, as were the officers who came to assist them," said Luc Poignant, an official for the Force Ouvriere police union.

A standoff ensued between officers and some 100 youths.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-03-28 07:35|| 2007-03-28 07:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Apparently, from what I've just read in blogs, the Youth who attacked the two controllers was an illegal migrant, therefore most likely an african, north or subsaharan... which explains why the Youths rioted in solidarity like that, they wouldn't have done it for, say, a polish or an eastern european.

Btw, this is to be taken in context of the presidential run (about one more month to go); for instance, one of the last tactical move by the then interior minister Sarko was to have the police reduce ID checks and patrolling in the 'hoods, so there would be less probability of a clash and of the ensuing bad publicity (Sarko's security legacy is as bad as the socialists').

Also, there's a controversy about his position on national identity (not ID papers, but actual identity), with the usual suspects reacting after a clash between protesters (leftists, illegals) and riot police during an arrest in front of a school, with all the usual WWII undertones (and the socialist candidate saying she will regularize all the parents of illegal children studying in France).

So, even if Sarko is a pure hype-driven candidate, he's still (and increasingly) demonized as a quasi-fascist and a rightwinger, that's almost funny.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-28 07:48|| 2007-03-28 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, and the far left (and the socialists, too, in veiled terms) prophetize/threaten a renewal of the 2005 riots, but expanded in scope, if Sarko is elected.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-28 07:50|| 2007-03-28 07:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Others attacked automatic drink dispensers
LOL - all yer cokes are belong to us!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-03-28 08:28|| 2007-03-28 08:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Shoot the sons of whores down in the streets, identify the bodies, and deport the entire family of each dead bastard.

Posted by Mac 2007-03-28 08:45|| 2007-03-28 08:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Mac that just makes to much sense.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-03-28 10:17|| 2007-03-28 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 What Mac said. But deport all their neighbors too.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-28 10:38|| 2007-03-28 10:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Shoot the sons of whores down in the streets, identify the bodies, and deport the entire family of each dead bastard.

Mark my words, it will eventually come to that, not only in France, but throughout Europe. There's a bloodbath coming, and I hate to think of its severity, or the consequences. Islam just doesn't know when to stop.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-28 13:34|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-28 13:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Even if shooting rioters were politically feasible in France, that would not be a solution to their problem.

Millions, close to 10%, of the population, do not work, are subsidized by the Welfare State, and are influenced by those who want to turn France into a fully Moslem slum. Shooting a few criminals will not turn that tide.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2007-03-28 13:51|| 2007-03-28 13:51|| Front Page Top

#14 I've been through this station many times, I can't imagine being gassed in the main terminal, worse the subway portions. This must have been a mess.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2007-03-28 14:40|| 2007-03-28 14:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey, Paris in Springtime, daffodils are up, time to throw a few Renaults on the BBQ.

Posted by Capsu 78 2007-03-28 16:13|| 2007-03-28 16:13|| Front Page Top

#16 No Pasaran! has video.

Posted by KBK 2007-03-28 20:30|| 2007-03-28 20:30|| Front Page Top