Muslim Rioting in France: 300 Towns

LadyEagle · Nov 7, 2005

Rioting in France Spreads to 300 Towns
PARIS Nov 7, 2005 — Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight, and a 61-year-old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.

After sundown, rioters in the southern French city of Toulouse set fire to a bus, then pelted police with Molotov cocktails and rocks, a local official said.

The rioters stopped the bus and ordered the driver to step out, then set the vehicle afire, said Francis Soutric, chief of staff at the regional prefecture in Toulouse. No passengers were inside. Clashes broke out when riot police arrived on the scene, and officers responded with tear gas bombs, he said.

As urban unrest was reported in neighboring Belgium and Germany...
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ABC News

Johnv · Nov 7, 2005

Where does it say that it's Muslims rioting?

LadyEagle · Nov 7, 2005

Johnv, it is the Muslims rioting but ABC is endeavoring to be PC out of fear.

Here's an Arabic news site proud to use the word Muslim in their headlines - even the ones that are scrolling.

Muslim riots spread to towns all across France

Posted: 06-11-2005 , 07:40 GMT

Muslim youths set on fire some 900 vehicles, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of protests that spread from Paris suburbs to towns all across France, reports have indicated. Police arrested more than 250 people overnight.
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http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/191029

Johnv · Nov 7, 2005

Not exactly a mainline press agencey, but it will suffice.

Enoch · Nov 8, 2005

Fox news

PARIS — France declared a state of emergency Tuesday to quell the country's worst unrest since the student uprisings of 1968 that toppled a government, and the prime minister said the nation faced a "moment of truth" over its failure to integrate Arab and African immigrants and their children.
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Although many of the French-born children of Arab and black African immigrants are Muslim,
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"France is wounded. It does not recognize itself in these devastated streets and neighborhoods, in this outburst of hatred and of violence that vandalizes and kills," Villepin said. "The return to order is the absolute priority."

Under the emergency laws, police — with 8,000 officers deployed and 1,500 reservists called up as reinforcements — could be empowered in areas where curfews are imposed to put troublemakers under house arrest, ban or limit the movement of people and vehicles, confiscate weapons and close public spaces where gangs gather, Villepin said.
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It will be interesting to see how the French handle their escalating problem. It seems out of control.

Bro. Curtis · Nov 8, 2005

They handled it the way they always do, they surrendered (sp?).....

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the creation of an anti-discrimination agency with special officials appointed to be in charge of certain regions, and making the fight against discrimination a national priority;

- 20,000 job contracts with local government bodies or associations paid a minimum wage would be reserved for those in the suburbs struggling to find work;

- an extra 100 million euros (120 million dollars) for associations that work in the neighbourhoods;

- 5,000 more teaching assistant posts in the 1,200 schools in districts designated as troublespots;

- the creation of 15 more special economic zones that provide tax breaks to companies that set up inside them as an incentive to boost local employment.

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