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French Police Arrest 5 Youts in Bus Firebombing
2006-11-04
MARSEILLE, France — Police arrested five youths Tuesday, aged 15 to 17, suspected of links to the weekend firebombing of a Marseille city bus that left a young woman severely burned, police said. Police arrested five people in housing projects near the site of the Saturday night bus attack, the most vicious in a series of bus burnings around the Oct. 27 anniversary of the start of the riots.

Mama Galledou, a 26-year-old student of Senegalese origin, was burned over nearly 70 percent of her body and was fighting for her life, doctors said Monday. She has been kept in an artificial coma.

Marseille Prosecutor Jacques Beaume told reporters that the five arrested in the bus firebombing could face criminal charges.
Reeeeeeeeally? Charges? Just for burning a young infidel woman?
President Jacques Chirac, in an interview published Tuesday in the daily Le Figaro, called for "firmness in the face of violence" along with promotion of equal opportunities for residents of the poor housing projects that ring France's big cities.
I thought there wasn't any racism in France. Equal opportunity?
Police clashed Saturday night in one Clichy-Sous-Bois project with about 20 youths who had built a barricade and threw stones at police, police said. Police fired flashballs to disperse the youths, all of whom left the scene except for the 16-year-old, who had fallen to the ground, according to police and judicial sources.

A judicial official said the teen admitted to helping erect the barricade but denied throwing stones at police. The young man was hospitalized, police said. An investigation was underway. Two officers were slightly injured in the melee and police cars damaged, police said.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  Ages 15-17. Standard Muslim M.O. - when the heat's on, make sure the suspects are juveniles, not adults. Less time, better time, names are usually withheld - for the sake of the "children", of course.
Posted by: mrp   2006-11-04 15:56  

#3  I am surprised that the Flics didn't arrest 5 of their own for "islamophobia."
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-11-04 11:08  

#2  Tomorrows headline.
French judge sets them free
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-11-04 09:57  

#1  I read even Liberation was calling for their heads.
Posted by: Perfesser   2006-11-04 08:39  

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