How do you say “Quagmire” en francais

Meanwhile six youths, all aged under 18, were last night arrested in a raid on a building in Evry, south of Paris, during which more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters’ faces were also found.

So far more than 800 people have been arrested and 3,500 vehicles torched, mainly in the working-class, high-immigration outer suburbs of Paris where unemployment is as high as 20 percent.

But Saturday night’s rioting was the most destructive so far as 1,300 vehicles were set alight and 349 people arrested.

Cars were burned out in the historic centre of Paris for the first time last night. In the normally quiet Normandy town of Evreux, a shopping mall, 50 vehicles, a post office and two schools went up in flames.
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Authorities now say the rolling nightly riots are being organised via the Internet and mobile phones, and have pointed the finger at drug traffickers and Islamist militants.
telegraph

Amusingly, el-Reuters is still keeping an open mind about the religious affiliation of the rioters,

Many rioters are of North African Arab and black African descent and assumed to be Muslims.
reuters my emphasis

I can hardly wait for Reuters to switch from calling the thugs “youths” to calling them “insurgents”.

Now that the rioters have stopped burning their own neighbourhoods and started in on downtown Paris it is a pretty good bet that even Chirac will stir himself to call out the Army - likely the Legion. Want to bet that the loonier fringes of the left will start calling these troops occupiers and blather on about apartheid.

Sarkozy will look like a hero to everyone but the geniuses who allowed the rot to set in over the last thirty years…for the most part his Cabinet colleagues. Delightfully, arch anti-American, pro-Hamas, pro-Saddam peot and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, is looking rather vunerable as the mass of French citizens grow angrier at their cities being torched. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Written by jay on November 7th, 2005 with 3 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Robert McClelland
#1. November 7th, 2005, at 8:10 AM.

Are you actually cheering this on you sick fuck?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jay
#2. November 7th, 2005, at 12:09 PM.

Politeas ever Robert. Of course I am not “cheering this on”. But I have to admit that I am hardly surprised that the French policy of appeasement toward the Muslim world is being tested in the streets of Paris. And, tragic as it is for the dead and the injured, these riots will at least have the virtue of concentrating the minds of the French ruling class. They may even have the effect of forcing that class to acknowledge that it has lost control of significant portions of its territory and that this cannot continue.

Or, perhaps, it can. In which case Canada should be actively recruiting non-Muslim French citizens who do not want to make a smoulding civil war their problem.

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