Youths, many of them Arab and black children of immigrants, again appeared to be lashing out at police and other targets seen to represent a French establishment they feel has left them behind.

“I don’t think it’s an ethnic problem,” Wiart said. “Most of all it is youths who reject all state authority. They attack firefighters, everything that represents the state.”

Yep. Just a bunch of Arab and black teenage anarchists. What’s unusual about that? However, where have I heard the story before of people of this ethnic persuasion attacking firefighters and EMTs? Hmmmm… *scratches head*

After night 2 comes night 3, and fortunately, there was more massive police presence this time, which helped make it better than the previous night:…

Do keep in mind that’s a Reuters “photo” — they may have “sharpened” it by Photoshopping out some flames and charred bodies.

saint kansas on November 27, 2007 at 10:01 AM

I’m sure they needed both the flames and bodies to paste into Israeli-lebanon/west bank photos…

These ” youths ” need a good spanking.

coleporter on November 27, 2007 at 4:12 PM

These ” youths ” need a good spanking straffing by machine gun fire.

How about France retaking France first?

Limerick on November 27, 2007 at 9:52 AM

I completely agree with you except you’re forgetting they are the French, a nation that had to be liberated by the US and its allies in two world wars…should we bail their a**es out again? After all they have been a total thorn in our side in the UN with Iraq (et all) for some time now, not to mention how condescending they are to American visitors to their country and to the US in general!

Or do they need to send several cops, firefighters, EMTS and reporters to the morgue before they wake up?

Perhaps they need to deploy the Foreign Legion – let a bunch of Irish, Scots, English, Belgian, Canadians, Americans and whoever else felt a need for anonymity settle the matter.

They way to prevent the 2008 French Intifada is to quash the 2007 intifada….

French officials are vowing to clamp down on the affected areas to prevent the spread, but I’m not exactly hopeful that they’ll succeed.

Meanwhile, one of the two kids who died in the incident that sparked the latest rioting had a blog.

More coverage here.

“Don’t Tase me, frere!

I have a French friend who was explaining to me how people in France take advantage of the generous social benefits, and that many work for 6 months, then don’t work for 6 months. That 40% figure could easily be much smaller, me thinks, if they actually wanted to work.

Having just faced down massive labor strikes, French President Nicholas Sarkozy now has to deal with intense riots by youths of undetermined ethnic extraction.

posted at 8:18 am on November 27, 2007 by Bryan

Violence also was reported in four other towns north of Paris

Muslim.

“…confident teenager scornful of conformists”

“he loved his mum and, like most youths his age, he was looking for a steady girlfriend”

“‘Damn, you make me cry,’ someone calling himself khalil wrote on Chamoo’s blog. ‘Don’t worry. You will be revenged.’”

1977 The last official use of the guillotine in France. On the 10th of September Hamida Djandoubi is executed. (May it never be used again.)

“Knock knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“Me. I kill you.”