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Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:44 pm
French car grillers have moved on, as Iowahawk reports:
Immigrant Parisian youths, enraged by lack of job opportunities and a growing shortage of flammable cars, tonight turned their wrath on another hated symbol of French cultural oppression—the accordion.
That car shortage really has put a crimp in things:
France’s storm of rioting eased Wednesday, with car burnings falling nearly by half, police said. But looters and vandals defied a state of emergency with attacks on superstores, a newspaper warehouse and a subway station.
The extraordinary 12-day state of emergency, which began at midnight Tuesday, covered Paris, its suburbs and more than 30 other French cities from the Mediterranean to the border with Germany and to Rouen in the north – an indication of how widespread arson, riots and other unrest have become in nearly two weeks of violence.
Lilian Thuram—a man, apparently, despite his profession as a soccer player—thinks it’s time to examine root causes:
“The most dangerous people are not those who are messing up the suburbs. You really need to think deeply about the root causes,” said Thuram.
Got two of your root causes right here, Lilian. French media remains offended by foreign press coverage:
“From Italy to South Africa, Poland to China, from CNN to al-Jazeera, the newspaper headlines and television commentaries set against a background of blazing cars are really hyping it up,” the popular daily Le Parisien complained …
Eric Raoult, mayor of the eastern Paris suburb of Raincy, did not like being at the receiving end of outside attention.
“Last night, Japanese television and Turkish television were in my city hall telling me what should be done. That hurts me,” he said …
“Fire and blood in France—at least that’s what some foreign media claim is going on,” Le Parisien wrote. “Paris is burning, civil war, war zone, race riots—the headlines, especially on TV, often have no nuance.”
Let’s see … we’ve got one man dead, 120 police and firefighters hurt, 1,500 mime-school dropouts arrested, and nearly 6,000 cars torched. Nuance! That’ll fix things.
- Nuance might fix it, ‘cause the oldance ain’t getting it done.Posted by Carl H on 2005 11 09 at 12:24 PM • permalink
- Who’s in charge over there,Inspector Clouseau?.Posted by starboardside on 2005 11 09 at 12:39 PM • permalink
“Fire and blood in France—at least that’s what some foreign media claim is going on,” Le Parisien wrote. “Paris is burning, civil war, war zone, race riots—the headlines, especially on TV, often have no nuance.”
Gee, I wonder how that feels?
Le Parisien should be thankful nobody’s said anything about cannabalism, or the rape & murder of seven-year-olds.
- “Last night, Japanese television and Turkish television were in my city hall telling me what should be done. That hurts me,” he said …
“And watching television takes away valuable time that I could be spending telling Americans what should be done.” he added.
“That hurts, too.
Right here– in my pâté gland…”
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 11 09 at 01:36 PM • permalink
- I think the French need to revive the old national lampoon superhero “Politenessman”, they could rename him “Nuanceman” and set him loose (obviously without his steel hanky) to bring Nuance to the world.Posted by Harry Buttle on 2005 11 09 at 05:33 PM • permalink
- Dave S. — Don’t jump to conclusions. Under all that Bearnaise sauce, there’s really no telling what they’re serving…
“Mais non, M’sieu! Those are truffles, not baby’s kidneys…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 11 09 at 11:13 PM • permalink
