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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 08:03 am
An old-fashioned youthsweep in Paris:
More than 200 police raided a neighborhood Monday in suburban Paris where a band of youths attacked riot police last week and seriously wounded one officer, reviving memories of the violence that raged in poor French suburbs last year.
Twelve people were detained in the early morning sweep in Corbeil-Essonnes south of the capital, the local prosecutor said.
Sweep on, Frenchies!
- Shall we begin the countdown to a widespread wail about backlash against innocent Muslims?Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 09 26 at 10:19 AM • permalink
- Oh, pronounced ‘youth-sweep’. I thought that it was ‘youths-weep’ at first and had visions of them singing “Don’t cry for me, Algeria” or something similar.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 26 at 10:25 AM • permalink
- Rounding up the usual suspects.Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 09 26 at 10:38 AM • permalink
- No, no they’re Epicsopalians.
Seriously, the smug, self-satisfied elite of France is going to get a big shock,
Regal is a babe but establishment, so will win. However, Sakozy may do better than expected. If Le Pen will hand over power to his daughter (?), then thwang…
Best place to follow this is the nopasaran blogspot.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 26 at 07:58 PM • permalink
- Wimpy,
I’m backing Sabine Herold as a dark horse candidate. She’s even more of a babe than Regal.If Sarko gets tough enough with the beurs and the general criminality in France a lot of the people who voted for Le Pen in 2002 might vote for him. That plus the general Gaulliste vote might put him over the top. It’s not like he’s going to drive people to vote Socialist by proposing to do anything sensible about the economy after all.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 09 26 at 11:06 PM • permalink
- #7, it’s mes amis, MES amis…
*sensitive linguist faints from the horror*
Posted by carpefraise on 2006 09 27 at 07:33 AM • permalink
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