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RIOTERS RIOTING
It’s car-b-q time again:
Rioting broke in one of Paris’s tinder box suburban housing estates last night after two young boys were killed when their moped collided with a police car.
Molotov cocktails were thrown, and cars and plastic bins set on fire ... One police station was set alight and another, in a neighbouring suburb, was ransacked after youths threw cocktails, and set bins alight and upturned cars.
The rioters are described as ... well, just “rioters”, although Presbyterianism is suspected. According to one witness, certain national stereotypes were observed:
“There were four police cars here, but they’ve retreated. They were charged by the rioters. Some rioters are climbing up to electric cables to try and break them and put the whole district into darkness.”
Darkness? Hey, they’re taking action against global warming! Probably to carbon-offset all that burning.
UPDATE. Further to earlier non-appearance miscreant news, here’s a tale of complete identification. By the SMH, of all people.
They are preparing for trouble here in Lyon/Villeurbanne tonight, too. Lots of police on the streets especially around the train and metro stations. No more than the normal number of army personnel about the place by my reckoning but the black mini-vans (think A-Team style) are parked in groups of three and four at the main shopping centre in Lyon and the big metro station in Villeurbanne. Nothing has happened (or even might happen) yet but the local and national cops are at the ready just in case. The locals don’t need much of an excuse to get started.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 11 26 at 09:16 AM • permalinkPresbyterianism? Hmmm, my wife is a Presbyterian. So is my mother-in-law. I’m sleeping with a loaded pistol under my pillow.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 11 26 at 09:16 AM • permalinkApparently, the French really know how to celebrate diversity.
In my little town we had our annual Christmas parade. Santa proceeded down the main drag past the two hindu owned quiki marts in a fire truck,throwing candy to all the multicolored kiddies (52 percent black, 40 percent white, and around 8 percent a mix of pleasant tan colors.)Instead of car burning we had fireworks. After the festivities we had supper at the local Chinese restaurant.
What can we learn from the sophisticated Europeans in the year 2007 ? In my opinion , not a g#ddam thing.Of course, we’re just ignorant hicks from the heart of the violent, gun toting , redneck south.
Hmmmm.
Frankly I’m amazed the French put up with this stuff.
IMO were I in charge in France I’d ship in about 50,000 body bags and stack them in public. Then let the rioters know in no uncertain terms that any more nonsense and those body bags would be filled with former rioters.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 11 26 at 01:00 PM • permalinkSecond day of this particular riot and the ABC seems reluctant to fully inform
Riots have flared for a second night in flashpoint suburbs north of Paris, despite the launch of a judicial probe into the deaths of two teens that sparked the violence.
Some 100 angry youthscrouching behind trash cans in Villiers-le-Bel, 20 kilometres north of the French capital, hurled objects at 160 riot police who responded with rubber bullets and teargas.
Oh wait , a clue in the last line of the article ‘Omar Sehhouli, brother of one of the victims’
Not Presbyterians after all.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 26 at 11:01 PM • permalinkFrom the SMH report of the attack in Sydney:
“...Police believe the three armed men were white or European in appearance and aged in their early 20s.”It would be reasonable to assume in future, that in a report of an attack or assault of this kind in the SMH, the perpetrators are of ‘Middle Eastern appearance’ unless stated otherwise.
#19: the International Herald Tribune describes the areas as “edgy suburbs”.
Bet they have edgy haircuts as well.
It did mention the origins of the rioters as including North Africans and Arabs. What could they possibly have in common…?
#23 Clearly failed to show the necessary cultural sensitivity and respect for fundamental human rights as required by those wise men of the EU in Brussels.
Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 11 27 at 06:29 PM • permalinkThe confusion continues. The Independent wonders:
More clues later in the article: some are not so young - in their 20s, but apparently they’re all from poor suburbs.
So there you have it. If you’re poor, reasonably young, probably not much into reading and living in France, it’s axiomatic that you’ll burn libraries and shoot police (presumably with very inexpensive guns and ammo).
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How can something built almost entirely out of low grade concrete be a tinderbox?
And you thought Australian journalists were hyperbolic.