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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 06:16 am

One year after the banlieue car-b-qs, they’re on maximum youth alert in doomed France:

France’s interior minister ordered police to go on maximum alert in at-risk areas around the country after several buses were torched in suburbs ahead of the anniversary of widespread rioting last year.

“I decided to mobilize all mobile forces at our disposal for the security of those who use public transport,” Nicolas Sarkozy, a conservative frontrunner in next year’s presidential elections, said overnight Thursday.

Another alert is also in place:

Hamas has instructed its followers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be on high alert following unconfirmed reports that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party are planning a coup against the Hamas government on Saturday.

Sources close to Hamas told The Jerusalem Post that the Islamic movement was taking these reports seriously and that hundreds of Hamas militiamen would be deployed in strategic areas in the Gaza Strip to foil any attempt to overthrow the Hamas government …

On Thursday, a group of PA policemen in Ramallah and Gaza City said they were planning to torch the offices of the PA Finance Ministry if they did not receive their full salaries within the next 48 hours.

This is better than the World Series.

UPDATE. andycanuck points out re the World Series: “You can still have a rain delay at a car-b-q unless you go with a domed riot area.”

Posted by Tim B. on 10/27/2006 at 09:54 AM
    1. This is better than the World Series.

      You can say that again.

      I think the biggest problem France faces is mobilizing its immobile forces. If all those wine-bibbers and demitasse-jugglers would stop sitting around in the cafes moaning about “how existential it all is”, and take to the ballot box – and to the streets, if necessary – to combat this latest resurgence of Islam in Europe, then they could finally get back to focusing on what they do best: being rude to foreign tourists.

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 10:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. France’s interior minister ordered police to go on maximum alert in at-risk areas around the country after several buses were torched in suburbs ahead of the anniversary of widespread rioting last year.

      Don’t discuss bus schedules.

      Posted by rhhardin on 2006 10 27 at 10:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. “I decided to mobilize all mobile forces at our disposal for the security of those who use public transport,” Nicolas Sarkozy, a conservative frontrunner in next year’s presidential elections, said overnight Thursday.

      Hey Nick baby, make sure the “forces” mobilized are the ones that fired on and killed those unarmed Ivorians. The Ivorians didn’t deserve it, but your Islam problem, does.

      This is better than the World Series.

      Hey, might be a little late for the Series, but it would seem far enough in advance for the Fatah’s v. Hamasses.

      Oh yeah, digressed…we need a punch board. A little money on the thing, hey, what the hell, huh?

      Posted by El Cid on 2006 10 27 at 10:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. It’s too bad that the youths don’t all have some sort of common identifying feature that would help the police stop such playful, youthful antics before they happen.

      And re. the World Series, you can still have a rain delay at a car-b-q unless you go with a domed riot area.

      Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 27 at 10:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. There must be a camp somewhere all of the unemployed French MOMEAs can go to concentrate on job skills and self improvement.

      Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 10 27 at 10:56 AM • permalink

 

    1. Things are certainly going to get interesting from here on out.  France battling an intifada.  The Palestinians in a bloody civil war.  Our western lefties are either going to be running in circles like a dog chasing its tail, or else they’ll be curled up in the corner in a catatonic stupor, because they can’t decide which group they’re supposed to be supporting.  And the undecideds (if there are any left) are going to have their eyes opened.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 27 at 10:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. To soften the blow, the French Ministry of culture should come up with some kind of theme song for the car-bq, since it appears to have become an annual event of great cultural significance.

      Hmmm some songs that come to mind:

      Ring of fire – Johnny cash
      Start me up – Rolling Stones

      I suppose they should really use some European songs instead of those. About the only one of relevance I know is:

      Waterloo – ABBA

      “My my, at waterloo napoleon did surrender
      Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
      The history book on the shelf
      Is always repeating itself”

      Friggen perfect!!! Second verse!

      Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the war
      Waterloo – promise to love you for ever more
      Waterloo – couldn’t escape if I wanted to
      Waterloo – knowing my fate is to be with you
      Waterloo – finally facing my waterloo

      Benny, Bjorn – you guys were bloody prophets!!!! Change Napolean to Chirac, insert a relevant suburb name, so many to choose from – why stop at one, and we have a winner I reckon.

      Posted by rbresca on 2006 10 27 at 11:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. You are woofing at a police force that is now at maximum efficiency?

      How dare you!
      How shallow!
      How callow!

      How do you say masochism on steroids in French anyway?

      Posted by yojimbo on 2006 10 27 at 11:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. The French brought forth the French Revolution about Liberty and brought about Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte- a man the French regard as a semi-god. They were too scared to fight the Nazis in WW2 so the Americans and British died to save them. And are the French grateful?- fcuk no!!! This time however the French better not expect us to bail their asses.

      Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 10 27 at 11:05 AM • permalink

 

    1. hundreds of Hamas militiamen would be deployed in strategic areas in the Gaza Strip

      So what’s different?

      Posted by PW on 2006 10 27 at 11:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. “I decided to mobilize all mobile forces..

      I can see them now, marching into battle while lustily singing a chorus of their battle hymn, The Men of No Appearance.

      Posted by Patricia on 2006 10 27 at 11:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Can I lay a wager on all this action?  Let me see…hmm…I’ll put $20 on the “youths” vs. French police – I’ll take the “youths” plus the over (35 busses).  OK, moving on to the Gaza…give me Hamas and the under (250 killed), say another $20.

      Posted by Major John on 2006 10 27 at 11:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. While the world series has up until this point lacked the exciting gunplay seen in the PA, a win by the Tigers tonight sends it back to Detroit so…

      Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 27 at 11:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. #3, Can I get $20 each way Cid?  Whats the spread anyway?

      #9 This time however the French better not expect us to bail their asses.

      I’ll drink to that!

      Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 10 27 at 11:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. Pymoroniacs.

      Posted by SoberHT on 2006 10 27 at 11:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. #15: Excellent!

      Hey, who’s keeping track of all the neologisms coined by members of Tim Blair’s Comment Academy? A lexicon consisting of these things would make a nice Christmas present for the discriminating RWDB (or a great gag gift for your environmental-case friends on Earth day).

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 12:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. About this Hamas vs Fatah thing.

      Both sides being what they are, seems to me, the safest place in the AO would be in the intended impact areas and kill zones.

      Spray and Pray, means they have to be facing Mecca when they jerk on the triggers.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2006 10 27 at 12:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Vivre la vie!

      As always, it is the vibrant world of coup and counter-coup, non?

      Monsieur et Madame, you would like to buy a souvenir?

      Posted by splice on 2006 10 27 at 12:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. Pssst. Coup on Saturday. Pass it on.

      Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 27 at 12:52 PM • permalink

 

    1. Gets messege whispered in ear. Goes to next person in the chain to retransmit.

      “Psst. Soup in all splattered, Piss on it.”

      Posted by Grimmy on 2006 10 27 at 12:56 PM • permalink

 

    1. Get yer… Peanuts! Popcorn! Ice-cream!

      Posted by splice on 2006 10 27 at 12:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. Isn’t this just the French doing their version of the “Vagina Monologues”?

      Just asking, you understand.

      Posted by yojimbo on 2006 10 27 at 01:17 PM • permalink

 

    1. The French way of fighting thugs, barbarians, er, Muslies:“‘The media should also act responsibly in reporting on the anniversary of last year’s violence to avert copycat crimes, he (Sarkozy) said. ‘We should not give any publicity to people who want nothing else,’ he said.” The French way of fighting, don’t report the crimes of the Muslies in the media (just like in the U.S.A..)

      Posted by stats on 2006 10 27 at 01:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. Doesnt the french way of fighting involve surrendering before the jerrys muslims can damage Paris?

      Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 10 27 at 01:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. Funny that you should mention the World Series as one of the cities participating, Detroit, bears a striking resemblance to both Gaza and Paris.  Gaza for the indiscriminate gunfire and Paris for the rampant arson.  If Detroit wins the World Series, its citizens will really show those French-Muslim yoots a thing or two about pointless arson.

      Posted by David Crawford on 2006 10 27 at 02:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. 12 Major John

      You got it.

      14 The_Wizard_of_WOZ

      Can I get $20 each way Cid?

      Done.

      Whats the spread anyway?

      Why, Vegemite, of course…

      Spaces are filling. I will of course save something for Andrea, Tim ‘the’ man, Texas Bob, paco, wronwright, Grimmy, Swinish, RebeccaH, yojimbo, 91B30, Kyda Sylvester, MentalFloss, andycanuck…awww hell, everyone. I just know they want in on this thing. Nix the “spaces are filling”, crap.

      All we need now is a few properly situated clusters of cherry bombs going off (wouldn’t want to hurt anyone, you know…lol) and the game is on.

      Posted by El Cid on 2006 10 27 at 02:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. El cid:

      I’d like to put 10 bucks on the yutes putting their lighters away and getting jobs and becoming productive citizens (I love a long shot!).

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 03:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. This is better than the World Series.

      So’s root canal.

      Posted by P. Froward on 2006 10 27 at 03:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. #28: As a Tiger fan, I couldn’t agree with you more.

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 04:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. $50 says that Israel gets blamed for it.  $100 that it includes Bush and Israel gettin’ blamed – in the same sentence.

      I don’t think we’ll need to bail out the French again.  I think they’ll be using the new Airbus (if it ever gets built) for mass evacuations to Canada, Martinique, Africa, Tahiti, etc.  As long as it isn’t here.

      Didn’t they own Mexico for about a week?  Maybe they could try that again.

      Posted by trainer on 2006 10 27 at 06:08 PM • permalink

 

    1. #20:

      “Psst. Pass on the soup, it tastes like piss.”

      Posted by Forbes on 2006 10 27 at 06:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. I decided to mobilize all mobile forces

      Is it just nme or is this mumbojumbo?

      Either way, it is a confession of incompetance

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 07:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Rats, I hit the submission button too soon.

      It is, of course, classic Clouseau.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 07:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Hamas has instructed its followers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip…

      So, Hamas is operating in Gaza AND Paris.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 07:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. #1 Paco,

      I must clarify one thing about the Parisians. They are not being rude to the foreign tourists, especially. They are just being what they are towards each other. It’s true, and not meant as an insult to the french. They’re just like that.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 07:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. #7 rbresca,

      Actually, it’s been going on all year. It was simply not reported. Average over the year is 1145 cars daily.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 08:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. RWDB????

      Right Wing Delicious Babes ??

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 08:06 PM • permalink

 

    1. #27 Paco, I understood your reference to “yutes” but you would have left many in the anglosphere a bit perplexed.

      You see, a yute in Australia is a Yutility Vehicle, while in la francophonie, a yute is an adolescant

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 08:13 PM • permalink

 

    1. R#36 El Typo,

      What are you doing Hand? I told you 115, NOT 1145

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 27 at 08:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. Banlieu-b-q?

      Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 10 27 at 08:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hans Blix, has just come out in favor of the French, leaving France.

      Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix on Wednesday described the United States- French led invasion of Iraq France as a “pure failure” that had left the country worse off than under the rule of Saddam Hussein Jacques Chirac.

      In unusually harsh comments to Danish newspaper Politiken, the diplomatic Swede said the US French government had ended up in a situation in which neither staying nor leaving Iraq France were good options.

      Iraq France is a pure failure,” Blix was quoted as saying. “If the Americans French pull out, there is a risk that they will leave a country in civil war. At the same time, it doesn’t seem that the United States   France can help to stabilise the situation by staying there.”

      Posted by El Cid on 2006 10 27 at 09:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. #35: They’re just plain rude, is it? And to their own, too, you say? Well, then, they should be able to work up a little rudeness toward their Muslim insurgents.

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 09:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well, then, they should be able to work up a little rudeness toward their Muslim insurgents.

      I don’t think the special French brand of “condescending-rude” would work with that target audience.

      Posted by PW on 2006 10 27 at 10:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. Too bad Jimmah Carter decided against developing a neutron bomb.  Then we ‘bail out the French again’ the right way, #9.  We could neutron nuke Paris, leave all the interesting stuff standing and get rid of the Muslim yutes, the snotty Parisians, and a goodly proportion of the French bureaucracy.  Win-win!

      Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 27 at 10:24 PM • permalink

 

    1. #39 What are you doing Hand? I told you 115, NOT 1145

      Lancet math.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 27 at 10:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. I don’t think the special French brand of “condescending-rude” would work with that target audience.

      #43, spot on. There was a great story doing the rounds earlier this week (can’t find the link I’m afraid) where Japanese tourists were having to seek counselling over the disappointment caused by rude French people and the squalid streets of Paris.

      Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 27 at 10:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m going to win a BBQ, I’ll let you know if I win it, and we can have some good tucker food for you Americans over there.

      Blair News reporters are Gutsy reporters, Blair News here at 5 pm…..

      Posted by 1.618 on 2006 10 27 at 10:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. Your boys are down to their last at bat Paco (why is it that I have this image of you sitting there with your Detroit hat like Tom Selleck in old episodes of Magnum PI?).

      Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 27 at 11:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. Sean Casey is tearing it up, now it’s up to Pudge.

      Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 27 at 11:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. #48: I was kinda hoping for a repeat of 1968, but it looks like it ain’t gonna happen. And yes, I am sitting here with my Tiger cap on.

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 11:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Is Wronwright anything like Johnathon Higgins (I mean, you know, except not so butch)?

      Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 27 at 11:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. The Cardinals have won. I am disgraced. I now withdraw from public life. Farewell.

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 11:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. Sorry Paco-too many errors on Detroit’s part, too tough to overcome good pitching by St. Louis.

      Eckstein is the MVP IMHO-what a gamer he is.

      Do you think that Leyland should have started Rogers?

      Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 27 at 11:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. There was a great story doing the rounds earlier this week (can’t find the link I’m afraid) where Japanese tourists were having to seek counselling over the disappointment caused by rude French people and the squalid streets of Paris.

      Yep, I read about that in a German newsmag about a month ago or so…“Paris Syndrome”, highly entertaining. Here’s a Reuters article on it. Interestingly, the number of cases seems to have undergone a severe downgrading since the stories first made the rounds in the non-English press…Reuters talks of a dozen cases a year, while the article I originally read mentioned up to one hundred.

      (I’ve pulled up another German article from last month just now, and it says it’s about 100 cases per year, of which two dozen major ones are notified to the Japanese embassy, and those are split evenly between local residents and tourists. So that’s probably how the incompetent Reuters journo got to the “one dozen tourists” figure. Must’ve been too many numbers for a single article to figure it out properly.)

      Posted by PW on 2006 10 27 at 11:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. #53: Definitely. Particularly since I sent him three jars of PacoSports “Pitch in Time Saves Nine” from our line of fine tar products.

      Now I withdraw from public life. So long.

      Posted by paco on 2006 10 27 at 11:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Just curious … does the fact that France, per M. Sarkozy, has 50,000 actual, designated riot police on tap (apparently completely separate from the crummy old day-to-day gendarmerie) mean there’s something we haven’t been told about French society?  I mean, I don’t think we here could come up with 50,000 guys nationwide who have “riot police” as their sole job description, and everybody seems to have conceded that we’re the biggest set of hooligans going.  What’s happened to all that French politesse?

      Posted by Celaeno on 2006 10 28 at 12:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. This is better than the World Series.

      Reminds me more of WWE

      Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 10 28 at 01:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. #54, it’s just Lancet maths 😉

      Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 28 at 01:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. There was a time when the Foreign Legion defended France’s interests …

      Posted by blogstrop on 2006 10 28 at 07:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. #59, blogstrop:

      Algiers might have had something to do with that changing, just a bit.

      Posted by Grimmy on 2006 10 28 at 12:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Hamas has instructed its followers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to be on high alert following unconfirmed reports that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party are planning a coup against the Hamas government on Saturday.”

      Call from the cluephone for members of Fatah:  coups are supposed to be secret until after the fact.

      Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 28 at 02:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. #24 Doesnt the French way of fighting involve surrendering before the jerrys [or]muslims can damage Paris?

      Good point.
      The Mussies are THERE.
      However, all French are philosophers, and there are easy ways to re-define ‘Paris’.
      Solved.
      In WWII they redefined France itself as ‘Vichy France’, and have since easily forgotten it existed.

      Posted by Barrie on 2006 10 28 at 08:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. #53 Sorry Paco-too many errors on Detroit’s part, too tough to overcome good pitching by St. Louis.

      On Aussie TV we just had the brief ‘low lights’ shown – so many ‘minor league’ errorsthat I found it hard to think it really WAS the WS.

      I hope it wasn’t all that bad..

      Posted by Barrie on 2006 10 28 at 08:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. Barrie-defensively (for Detroit) it was pretty bad.  Course the Tigers weren’t doing much hitting either, but pitching and defense win championships and St. Louis had the better of the Tigers in both those categories.

      Posted by 68W40 on 2006 10 28 at 11:29 PM • permalink

 

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