Third night of Paris rioting
Associated Press reports that riots continued tonight in Paris;
Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and — in an ominous turn — shot at officers.
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A senior police union official warned that “urban guerrillas” had joined the unrest, saying the violence was worse than during three weeks of rioting that raged around French cities in 2005, when firearms were rarely used.Bands of young people set more cars on fire in and around Villiers-le-Bel, the Paris suburb where the latest trouble first erupted, and 18 people were detained, the regional government said. In the south, 10 cars and a library went up in flames in Toulouse, police said.
Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs calls it a full-fledged war;
More incredible than the story of urban warfare is the apolgist tone of the media, “angry Arab” immigrants. And, of course, no mention of Islam.
Speaking of apologists, Hot Air has a video of Fox News Channel’s Shep Smith twisting and torturing one of those Leftist apologists with facts about the rioters.
Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard writes that over 1,000 French police were deployed. Michele Malkin catches AP actually identifying the “youths” by ethnicity;
Youths, many of them Arab and black children of immigrants…
That’s gonna cost someone their job.
Category: Foreign Policy
Ok…I feel guilty for saying this…considering that people are getting hurt…but, might this not all turn out to be a good thing?
Could this be what the old world needs to wake up to the threat they are inviting in to their lives? Am I being too optimistic to think they can wake up at all?
Jonn wrote: You shouldn’t feel guilty for thinking that, but it seems if the Old Europe was going to wake up, they’d have done it over two years ago when the riots across Europe erupted. The French, to their credit, at least elected someone (Sarkozy) who might actually do something about the problem. For that matter, the Germans, the Greeks and the Danes have different governments, too. I suspect the riots will end soon. Not because of anything the government does, but because of the weather.