Babe
Sarko won - which I think is hugely good for France - but Segolene Royal still wins the best looking gal to run for a major office since Benazir Bhutto.
Update: Greg Staples has a rather intriguing question…
Update II: 600 arrested, 700+ cars torched. The “youths” - and Lord knows we would not want to identify them to much more precisely - are not amused with the election of Sarko who, accurately, called them scum the first time they went car burning and reiterated his view a few days before the election.
I suspect Sarko is not entirely dismayed that the “youths” are providing him with the pretext necessary to crack down and crackdown hard on the yobs living in the housing projects which ring many French cities. And I think it is fair to say that many of the police, frustrated by Chirac’s endless dithering, would rather like to put down this suburban intifada. It is not going to be pretty but it will be necessary.
Update III: And for video of the Paris riots. The “youths” look pretty outgunned. But no question, cobbled streets give an edge to the intifadistes.
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