Why has Paris gone up in smoke?
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- 'Scum' who are nothing but hooligans bent on creating trouble?
Criminal gangs or Islamic radicals who are out to undermine
Nov 7, 2005
The Straits Times
Aulnay-Sous-Bois (FRANCE) - FRANCE is struggling to pin down the cause of the Paris riots as urban violence scaled new heights with gangs of youths torching cars, shops and firms despite heavy security reinforcements.
The discovery of a petrol bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of the city, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, added to fears that organised gangs were behind the attacks.
Six youths, all aged under 18, were arrested in the raid on Saturday night on a building in Evry, south of Paris, where the petrol bombs were being made, said director of criminal affairs and pardons Jean-Marie Huet.
The discovery, the director said, showed that petrol bombs being used by rioters 'are not being improvised by kids in their bathrooms'.
Youths have also been found using cellphones to relay police movements and Internet blogs to urge unrest elsewhere.
Some 2,300 police have been deployed in the Paris region to bolster security.
And for the second night in a row, a helicopter equipped with spotlights and video cameras combed the poor, heavily immigrant Seine-Saint-Denis region, north-east of Paris, where the violence has been concentrated. The violence has spread west to the rolling fields of Normandy and south to resort cities on the Mediterranean.
Those working in some of the affected areas said many rioters were school dropouts or unemployed, with some from fatherless homes.
Ms Sonia Imloul, who works with troubled teens in Seine-Saint-Denis, said youths often felt trapped.
'It is very, very difficult to leave this place,' she said.
'There is a stigma attached to being a resident of this place.'
Families break down in the pressure cooker of suburban crime, poverty and unemployment. Many single mothers are left to fend for themselves, said Ms Imloul, a single mother herself.
'Fathers do not play any role in their children's lives.'
She said 40 per cent of families in the suburbs where she works are dysfunctional, which explains the high rate of school dropouts, drug use and trafficking, petty crimes and aggressive behaviour.
'Those who set fire to cars and buildings are not criminals. They are young kids. What are 12-year-olds doing in the streets at midnight? Parents have no control over them.'
But others blame racism from the larger society for driving the youths of immigrant parents to burn cars and cause mayhem in the place where they were born.
Hardline law-and-order policies from Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy have also been accused of fuelling anger in the mainly immigrant estates where the trouble has spread. But the minister has insisted the violence was being orchestrated by unknown ringleaders.
Police union leader Bruno Beschizza also said the riots were 'a form of urban terrorism led by a minority of kingpins who have a financial interest, such as drug trafficking, or an ideological one such as Islamic radicals'.
Many residents seemed to agree with Mr Sarkozy that the rioters were 'scum'.
'You should see these hooligans in the morning,' said Ms Genevieve Bourgognat, who watched from her eighth-floor flat as a social club burned below.
'They come back to survey what they did and they are proud of it. They show their friends. They boast they got on television.'
Consultant Henri Huynh searched for the best way to describe them.
'They are like dogs - they bite anything in their way,' he finally said. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS,AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE -
when will america go up in smoke ?
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Coming.... History tells us that no nation will be mighty forever.Originally posted by crazy monkey:when will america go up in smoke ? -
part of it did last time...during the Rodney King incident...Niggers r the reason for the riot of Paris which was sparked when some niggers were electrocuted....but serve them right for running away from the parole officer...Originally posted by crazy monkey:when will america go up in smoke ? 
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I supposed your Nazi-fetish hobby has much influence on the language you used here. Am I wrong ?Originally posted by ceecookie:Niggers r the reason for the riot of Paris which was sparked when some niggers were electrocuted....but serve them right for running away from the parole officer... -
I tend to think it's just a large number of disgruntled immigrants and jobless hooligans taking advantage of the situation, pillaging and causing mayhem under the pretence of racial discrimination.
An estimated 1300 vehicles torched, a factory seizure of over 100 petrol bombs and molotov cocktails? This doesn't sound like the average passionate riot to me.
Sounds more like deliberate and organised crime. -
why must they blame everything on Islam? and i pity those people living there, if only the government had thought of something to tackle the problem..
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Hmm,seems dat every country which accepts a certain grp of immigrants seem to have dis Problem.
Kudos to e singapore govt for being wise on dis matter... -
I say roll the tanks in n quell the unrest. Shoot to kill. Crush kill n destroy. Do it KOREAN RIOT STYLE..
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Because govt neglected them
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Yes Your Wrong!...i found out in American History that niggers are the cost of riots in america...Originally posted by Gun:I supposed your Nazi-fetish hobby has much influence on the language you used here. Am I wrong ?
and if my hatred is becoz of my Nazi hobby then i should have hatred toward jews becoz Nazi hate them and not niggers.....am i right?
"Nigger" is somemore used from one black to another black without any offense...so why cant we use that... -
This is payback for France for standing up for Saddam who killed millions of Iraqis.
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its the same reason used by the muslims in southern thailand.Originally posted by sbst275:Because govt neglected them -
No, its because of Bush. Bush made these people angry. All these pent up frustration against Bush exploded all over the world that caused all this.
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they stood up for Saddam not because of any high ideal lah ...Originally posted by Salman:This is payback for France for standing up for Saddam who killed millions of Iraqis.
simply because Saddam is a damm good customer for french weapons ..... and also because of the oil for food scandal ..... not that Saddam is gone .... this shit has blown wide open .... and .... no surprise ... french and german companies figured prominently .... (to be fair lots of other companies from other countries were involved too ...... including one on malaysia ) ... the goverments knew what was going on of course ... and they know that if Saddam is removed lots of their Business patrons will be caught with shit on their hands ..... -
yeah yeah, everything blame Bush.Originally posted by Salman:No, its because of Bush. Bush made these people angry. All these pent up frustration against Bush exploded all over the world that caused all this. -
Did france really stand up for Hussein?Originally posted by Salman:This is payback for France for standing up for Saddam who killed millions of Iraqis. -
the fire is spreading to other countries in Europe.
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Thats right, only Bush can get so many people all over the world angry. Its Bush' fault.
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really getting bad.
cb, like as if this world dont have enough problems. -
Originally posted by ceecookie:
I am a little buffled....how many riots that were the "cost" by African American ?
Yes Your Wrong!...i found out in American History that niggers are the cost of riots in america...and if my hatred is becoz of my Nazi hobby then i should have hatred toward jews becoz Nazi hate them and not niggers.....am i right?
(I assumed u meant "caused"...am i right? ? )
Since u r an avid Nazi-wannabe, I am surprised about your complete ignorance about Nazi perseption on non-Aryan pple.
And do u know how Hitler behaved when supposedly 'racially inferior' Owens won four gold medals during 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ?
I supposed, with all your Nazi collectables, know who Owens is ?"Nigger" is somemore used from one black to another black without any offense...so why cant we use that...
Geee...what an excuse !
Name one black who used such word upon another. -
WW3 coming?Originally posted by crazy monkey:the fire is spreading to other countries in Europe. -
"Nigger" is used among the black community...Passages from "Niggers" in Wikipedia proves so......and for your info i do not have any medals yetOriginally posted by Gun:Geee...what an excuse !
Name one black who used such word upon another. -
According to Wikipedia "Nigger is an extremely controversial term used in many English-speaking countries,.... to refer to people of African descent. All, however, have accepted the original term as being racist and dehumanizing. Generally, nigger is considered a highly offensive racial epithet, especially when used by non-blacks."Originally posted by ceecookie:"Nigger" is used among the black community...Passages from "Niggers" in Wikipedia proves so......and for your info i do not have any medals yet
Please don't use such term. -
"Nigger" is somemore used from one black to another black without any offense...so why cant we use that...[/b][/quote]
they are respectfully known as the blacks, not nigger.
if you let one of them hear this they will not hesitate to beat the living daylights out of you.