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Hooded attackers ambush police in Paris suburb, wounding 4
2008-03-03
Dozens of hooded attackers fired buckshot and nails at police this weekend, wounding four officers, France's interior minister said.
'hooded attackers': are these 'youts', 'miscreants' or jihadis?
Michele Alliot-Marie called the Sunday afternoon attack an "ambush," saying that about 30 people, some of them armed, were waiting for the officers in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny. The officers were responding to a call about vandalism at a local bakery.

Three officers were hit in face with buckshot; another was hit in the leg with buckshot and nails and was hospitalized, Sunday's statement said.

The minister expressed "total support" for the officers, who she said work under "particularly difficult conditions." Alliot-Marie said efforts were under way to identify and apprehend those involved in the incident.

In November, rioting youths in another Paris suburb opened fire on police, injuring at least 10. That attack in Villiers-le-Bel fueled fears of a repeat of riots that raged across France's neglected suburbs for three weeks in November 2005. Police managed to bring last year's unrest under control in a matter of days.

Last month, police raided housing projects in Villiers-le-Bel and neighboring towns north of the French capital, detaining 35 people in connection with the riots there. Authorities have said youths organized a system to target police with gunfire.
Time for the French to "play dirty".
Posted by:Anonymoose

#6  Hmm. The term "a whiff of grapeshot" springs to mind here. From the police/army.
Posted by: Rambler in California   2008-03-03 18:26  

#5  Authorities have said youths organized a system to target police with gunfire.

Um, wouldn't an organized system to shoot at police be best described as a "revolt"?
Posted by: Flineque Pelosi7535   2008-03-03 16:47  

#4  Euro-logic allows rioters to shield their identities, and toss "petrol bombs" at police. However after they burn cops, they are allowed to be arrested. But once arrested, elected politicians offer vocal support for them.

More Euro-logic: their secular-pluralist constitution allows massive immigration of vulgar eastern hordes, intent on abolishing secular-pluralist constitutions.

The purpose of Europe is: the destruction of Europe.
Posted by: McZoid   2008-03-03 16:27  

#3  The French police need streetsweepers.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2008-03-03 16:11  

#2  Is it legal to own a shot gun in France? These miscreants should be apprehended for violations of the gun ownership laws.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-03-03 15:33  

#1  When will they start calling this open rebellion? After the fall of the Louvre?
Posted by: gromky   2008-03-03 15:25  

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