[insoneeri]

Wow. If only the French had such fighting prowness during war times.

[DrBrightonone]

Originally posted by Japher
Wow. If only the French had such fighting prowness during war times.

As long as they are their own enemy they stand a 50-50 chance of winning!

[gundas]

77 police where injured..... and how many did the police injure?

[PeterPatrickJohn]

Oh, Lord...

Kid in 5..4..3..

[Lymneterfeiff]

DP

[q9h9pPne]

Originally posted by Lorizael
That's quite an impressive lag in your DP there, Heraclitus. I think Flubber still holds the record. Something like a half hour.

[lopushok]

Racist islamophobia which provocated this

[Alexeric]

I see that Guardian has responsibly been following the official lexicon and used the proper term "youths". Thank god media and government have slowly merged in our lovely EU, for now they are responsibly keeping racist islamophobia out of the minds of hysterical people, who naturally are too stupid to be trusted with unfiltered reality

[CedssypeEdids]

Originally posted by PLATO
I don't think it was a DP...unless the server is changing words in posts now. Good eye on ya.

[abishiots]

No, it's the Religion of Peace™

[jaydicassdhy]

Well at least the ones firing at the cops.

[SasV7ReJ]

I never really understood burning and destroying your neighborhood as a political statement. (I'm mad as hell and I'm going to burn down my home!) Go destroy another neighborhood if you want to make a political point.

[spravka.ua]

The Times correspondant there is the first account I've seen so far from someone who actually knows the area and has been talking to local people. From his description it sounds like a reaction to poor policing of immigrant areas.

[Hankie]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Not enough apparently. Ludd, I understand your general point of view here, but when people start rioting, I see little sympathy for them... if you start shooting at the police, you're going to get shot at.

At least riot for a good reason, and not because some teenagers were stupid and ran into some policemen... Send some Utah lawmen armed with tasers.

[KaterinaNJq]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Not sure if this has anything to do with religion, folks.

http://timescorrespondents.typepad.c...d-the-new.html Thanks! It was Interesting.

[dahlilaninfo]

I'm tired of waiting for the French to machine-gun the rioters.
Seriously, burning cars and shooting at police because some probably stoned kids killed themselves by crashing on a probably stolen bike into a police car? You've got to show them their place. You've got to hit them so hard that they finally adopt French ways assimilate instead of banding up into ghettoes and hating those who welcomed them into their country.
French authorities

[Rounteetepe]

That's what you get when Sarkozy leaves the country to sell stuff in China. It's all about hating the Chinese.

[Dapnoinaacale]

But we have a lot of people from Turkey etc and while there are surely problems with integration they are not rioting all the time. So pointing exclusively to immigration doesn't explain it IMO.

[P1international]

Originally posted by Japher
Wow. If only the French had such fighting prowness during war times. They did though. La Resistance has a much better reputation than France's army. It make you wonder if they're not just surrendering so they can engage in guerilla warfare

[robinthesearchmasterh]

Originally posted by VetLegion
It's not politically correct to say but these are obviously not native Frenchmen, but immigrants.

I used to mock Denmark for its fascist immigration policy, but it's probably the right thing to do before there's a critical mass of people who feel like it's not their country and they can trash it
Kind of like illegal Mexicans.