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| Day 12 - Rioters Set Fire to Bus in Toulouse | |
| 2005-11-07 | |
| PARIS (AP) - Rioters in the southern French city of Toulouse set fire to a bus after sundown Monday, 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. Additional: Police used tear gas in Toulouse Monday night against rioters hurling heavy rocks and petrol bombs at them. A bus there was the last of more than 5,000 vehicles burned in the 11-day wave of unrest The mayor of Raincy east of Paris, imposed a night curfew after the government failed to crack down on marauding gangs. The unrest claimed its first fatality, a 61-man beaten by a youth in the Paris suburb of Stains. Almost every town in France is gripped with peaking violence against cars, schools, buses, churches, paramedics, ambulances and police amid rising calls to bring in the army. Sunday night in Grigny south of Paris, 36 police were injured by the first gunshots fired in the 11-day riots. There are serious fears for investments and tourism in France after Japan, UK, Russia and Australia joined the US in warning citizens to avoid spreading riot centers.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #21 bbc.. Also commented that the 500,000 immigrants coming to America each year are deluding themselves. I don't have a problem with that. Keep the rumor going. Stay at home. Do not come here. You will not like it. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-11-07 20:08 |
| #20 Beirut meets Lord of the Flies. Here's what happens when kids raised on Mohammedism intersect with years of police indifference. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-11-07 19:59 |
| #19 Re film footage. BBC World news had some footage from today's events in France. But to offset the negative image of socialist utopia they also did a hit piece on the US. It was a report on some study that was done that showed that the US has a very low social mobility compared to Canada, Europe. Contained phrases like "But this is America, where there is a sharp divide between haves and have-nots." Also commented that the 500,000 immigrants coming to America each year are deluding themselves. BBC World - an alternative reality. |
| Posted by: jolly roger 2005-11-07 18:41 |
| #18 Good thing for the responders that they have Arab marksmanship. |
| Posted by: Chimble Chans3999 2005-11-07 17:43 |
| #17 4795 If that is so then surely they should start getting live ammo in there fuck em |
| Posted by: Bush Mckenzie 2005-11-07 17:25 |
| #16 @ Thrinenter Phaigum4795 : the Metula News Agency, a french language jewish news agency has a very interesting article about those tactics (for sucribers, but posted here anyway http://www.aipj-news.net/articles.php?num=132), though its actual point is about the under-reporting of the french msm. At Grigny-en-Essonne, a small group of rioters set fire to vehicles. When about 25 riot cops came to the scene to check, they were ambushed and surrounded by a group of about 100 rioters hiding in the area, with stones, firebombs, and firearms (that's during that ambush that 2 policemen were wounded by buckshot, and apparently without their bulletproof jacket, they'd be dead). When the riot cops reinforcement, 35 more policemen, came in to bail their pals out... the rioters engaged reinforcements of their own, 100 more rioters, trapping the back-up force too! All in all, the two riot police units were trapped for 2 hours and went out of ammo, so they had to coninue fighting by throwning back projectiles they received, all the while being shot at with shotguns (and handguns too, according to some sources)! They were finally rescued by an another unit, and had to flee the area, leaving the rioters triumphant. According to the officers involved, this was a "killing ambush", in which the goal to shed the blood of the police units involved. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-11-07 17:23 |
| #15 Interesting. They stopped an empty bus, fired it up and this time waited around for the responders to come and them attacked them. Last night it was shotguns, tonight Molotovs. They've got the first responders tired, pissed off, humiliated, and unsure of support from their superiors. And now they attack. I'd call it a pretty good plan if this weren't spontaneous. |
| Posted by: Thrinenter Phaigum4795 2005-11-07 16:57 |
| #14 Allan's Snack Bar. Best Pork BBQ in town. |
| Posted by: Omager Ulereting9458 2005-11-07 16:42 |
| #13 The link above is in dutch stay with it and you see the mob.... |
| Posted by: Albert Armchair 2005-11-07 16:42 |
| #12 http://architectureandmorality.blogspot.com/2005/11/shattered-glass-dealing-with-north.html Check this they are shouting "allan snackbar". It is amazing that this is in Europe as it looks like Beiruit or Iraq |
| Posted by: Albert Armchair 2005-11-07 16:40 |
| #11 LOL Mojo. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-11-07 16:35 |
| #10 Seafarious---according to Wrechard's map of insurrection hotspots, Cannes has been torched, too. So your suggestion that Kofi and the UN take on the problem and have lunch there is out. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-11-07 16:32 |
| #9 It is possible that the current government can locate veterans of the 1e REP, Légion Étrangère who might offer a solution to the problem. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-11-07 16:06 |
| #8 Open question: will the rioters start going after bigger targets? They are obviously focusing on vehicle arson, but with their success so far, you would think that they would start to get more ambitious. I'm thinking of the Detroit "Hell Nights" of years ago, in which many abandoned buildings were set on fire. Another big step would be if they attacked industrial targets. There are thousands of targets like warehouses full of plastics, large maintenance facilities, paint stores, etc., that would literally cast a pall over all of Paris. They are poorly guarded at night, and would be easy prey for an arson gang. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-11-07 15:57 |
| #7 Toulouse? Musta been the short bus, eh? Thanks, I'm here all week... |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-11-07 15:52 |
| #6 I was starting to overcome my distaste for things French and feel sorry for the poor fools, but then I read the French Connection to Joe Wilson and his antics. Maybe in another couple of months I'll start to feel bad again - if France still exists. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-11-07 15:34 |
| #5 They aren't running with much Robert. So I'm not missing much. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-07 15:31 |
| #4 They aren't running with much Robert. FoxNews has the most, and it is only a 5 minute report of car burning and some firemen putting out fires. Most of the other MSM news sites are going "Riots continue in France. In other news, will Rove be fired?" |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-11-07 15:27 |
| #3 That's "seezles." |
| Posted by: Curt Simon 2005-11-07 14:38 |
| #2 One of the side effects of getting news from the 'net is less awareness of what the TV networks are running with. How much video is France getting? Are we seeing any footage of the actual events, or are they running with file footage and talking heads? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-07 14:21 |
| #1 Toulouse, eh? I wonder: Is Airbus going to fall even further behind on their A380 deliveries? Stay tuned. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-07 14:19 |