“I speak with real words,” he told the popular daily, Le Parisien. “When you fire real bullets at police, you’re not a ‘youth’, you’re a thug.”
Nicolas Sarkozy, the scotsman
Of course, the poltically correct thing to do is look at root causes, but not to carefully else you notice that the root cause was massive Muslim immigration in the 60’s and 70’s added to which is a huge illegal and asylum seeking group. Oh, and if you look too carefully you’ll see that Eastern European countries with much the same unemployment levels as in the suburbs of Paris are exporting workers to western Europe because, er, they want to work.
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If you are interested in a blow by blow, fire by fire, political grovel by political grovel account of the situation in France you could do worse than to read http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
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Sarkozy’s decision to send the police back to the suburbs which had been abandoned by previous governments was resented by the “youths” who now rule there. That this would lead to riots was inevitable. Sarkozy knew it, and so did Chirac, Villepin and the others. Sarkozy intended to crack down hard on the rioters. If the French government had sent in the army last week, it would have been responding to the thugs in a language they understand: force. And the riots would long have ceased.
What happened instead was that Sarkozy’s “colleagues” in government used the riots as an excuse to turn on the “immigrant” in their own midst. Paris is well worth a mass, King Henri IV of France once said. Bringing down Nicolas Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is well worth a riot, King Chirac must have thought. Contrary to the normal French policy in dealing with trouble makers, the authorities decided to use a soft approach. Chirac and his designated crown prince Villepin blamed Sarkozy’s “disrespectful rhetoric” – such as calling thugs thugs – for having detonated the explosive situation in the suburbs. Dominique de Villepin stepped in and took over the task of restoring calm from Sarkozy. While the latter was told to shut up and keep a low profile, Villepin began a “dialogue” with the rioters. As a result the riots have spilled over from Paris to other French cities. Do not be surprised if this French epidemic soon crosses France’s borders into the North African areas surrounding cities in Belgium and the Netherlands.
brussels journal
If Sarkozy resigns from the French government in protest to the mollycoddling which has lead to the spread of the riots he might well be President of France in less than two years.
This would be a good thing as he would put paid to the shrill anti-Americanism which has been the hallmark of Chirac’s rather effete form of neo-Gaullism.
At the same time there are reports that the French police have been, wait for it, arresting some of the rioters and may even charge some.
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