Re: [Paris suburbs] Hooded youths play guerrilla warfare with nervous police

On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:34:16 +0100, Alfred Kleine Beverborch
<Enzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hooded youths play guerrilla warfare with nervous police
>http://www.thedailyjournalonline.com/article.asp?ArticleId=203057&CategoryId=12395
>
>AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS ? Comparisons with the Gaza Strip sprang to mind
>after midnight Thursday in the Cite des 3,000 at Aulnay-Sous-Bois,
>
>A fire at a warehouse shrouded the streets with acrid smoke.
>Nervous riot police loitered by charred cars, on alert for the
>steel boules that are a favorite projectile for the young rebeux
>(Arabs) and blacks in the nearby tower blocks. Hooded teenagers
>dashed from the darkness to hurl stones, then vanished with police
>in pursuit.
>
>Down the street from the hulking estate a Molotov cocktail set a
>Renault ablaze, adding to the night?s score: more than 600 vehicles
>incinerated across the Paris region
>
>There were 85 arrests and five businesses burnt, and, for the first
>time, the rioting spread to the provinces, with youths burning cars
>in Dijon, Rouen and Marseille.
>
>Yet the government voiced some relief because the violence was
>lower than recent nights in Seine-Saint-Denis, the department whose
>identifying number, 93, is a synonym for France?s ethnic and social
>ills.
>
>Dominique de Villepin, the Prime Minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, his
>deputy and rival, took that as a sign that one of the worst
>outbreaks in two decades of periodic ethnic discontent may be
>cooling.
>

It will be interesting to see how the cowardly French handle their
Muslim problem. If they accept blame for the actions of these
terrorists in training, then the French government is without question
inviting more of the same and worse going forward.


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