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2005-11-05 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-05 20:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Villepin is talking with 15 yutes!?!?!? This is a joke right? What the fuck is the clown looking MF going to do?
There was no rest on the MOOOOOOSLUM Sabbath.
This get's better every single minute.
I hope somebody throws some gasoline on the fire tomorrow to really get them pissed off!! Let's see'm try to tip the Eifel tower!!

Posted by Long Hair Republican">Long Hair Republican 2005-11-05 00:33|| 2005-11-05 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 reminds me of Clinton - trying to appear in charge without actually DOING anything..

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-11-05 01:04|| 2005-11-05 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 but he got a charge when Monica was doing him.

Posted by anon 2005-11-05 01:05|| 2005-11-05 01:05|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know where that article got the 152 torched cars figures, the ones I've heard on teevee and radio are 800-1000 nationally (ok, let's say 900), about of third of it being outside Paris.

Also, torched warehouses, automobile garages, one school IIRC, attacks in broad daylight... total cost so far is already in the tens of millions of euros.

Also, note that as I repeatedly wrote, there are 30 000 torched cars on a "normal" year, and that this figure is about one half or even one third of the reality (and so are probably the current figures) : the french authorities only count the "dÃ©parts de feu" (starting fires?), IE the car initially torched; collaterally destroyed cars are not included in the stats, and so are the cars whichs are not totally destroyed.

All in all, supposedly less direct clashes with the police, a whole lot more arrests (about 250, but you've got to remember that so far sentencing for caught rioters have been in the vicinity of 1-3 months, sometime probationary), but more "urban guerilla" with small groups practicing an hit and run tactic they've mastered over the years.

Funny. About 10 years ago, when I was in high school, I had the opportunity to speak with a riot cop (I think he was a gendarme mobile), and we discussed the various types of demonstrations/riots : the easiest to manage were unions (excellent order service), the toughest physically were the "white trashes" ("petits blancs"), such as independent peasants, artisans, small shops owners,.. who suffers a lot under France's system and really go for the jugular when they riot, and the most frustrating and dangerous were the suburbians, since the tactics of the locals were/are to harass the police with projectiles (stones, heavy objects dropped from the towers, even acid bottles or molotov cocktails) all the while avoiding contact and sprouting insults. Also, intervention there was very sensitive, and had to be okayed by the powers-that-be. And this was in the 90's; since then, there was an influx of weaponry, straight from Yugoslavia. If/when the situation gets out of hand (so far it isn't and remains manageable, problem will be lack of reserves if this last longer than say 2 weeks, police is overstretched), law enforcement would be in trouble.

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-11-05 07:30|| 2005-11-05 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 This is the 'Burg, Anon. Be precise. He actually GAVE a charge...remember the blue dress?

I thought the French were going to do something about this. Looks like they're just going to roll over and give up. What a bunch of wimps! Eurabia isn't coming, it's already here.

Posted by mac 2005-11-05 08:02|| 2005-11-05 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 As usual, when it comes to France, Scott Ott and Scrappleface are writing history before it has happpened. http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2057

Posted by Thravilet Photing9369 2005-11-05 19:54|| 2005-11-05 19:54|| Front Page Top

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