Worrying new levels of barbarity in drug-infested Muslim suburbs in France

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In retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.

What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!”

The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ablaze. He stood as the mob closed in on him, parrying the first few baseball bat blows with his arms. An iron bar in the face knocked him down.

“I tried to roll myself into a ball on the ground,” said Illy from his hospital bed. He was breathing with difficulty because several of his ribs had been broken and one had punctured his lung.

His bruised and bloodied face signalled a worrying new level of barbarity in the mainly Muslim banlieues, where organised gangs of rioters used guns against police in a two-day rampage of looting and burning last week.

Not far from where Illy was lying was a policeman who lost his right eye after being hit by pellets from a shotgun. Another policeman displayed a hole the size of a 10p coin in his shoulder where a bullet had passed through his body armour.

Altogether 130 policemen were injured, dozens by shotgun pellets and shells packed with nails that were fired from a homemade bazooka. It prompted talk of urban “guerrilla warfare” being waged on French streets against the forces of law and order.

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By the end of the week an extraordinarily heavy police presence in Villiers-le-Bel, where most of the rioting took place, appeared to have halted the violence: on top of public transport strikes and student protests against his reform plans, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, could not afford a repeat of 2005...

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At the same time he argued that, far from reflecting difficult living conditions, the violence was a result of the “thugocracy” of the suburbs, where drug-trafficking criminals held sway.

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“It felt like they were out to kill us,” said one of the officers in Villiers-le-Bel last week. “We knew that there were weapons in the suburbs, but they have never been turned against us like that. The kids were shooting at us at close range, loading and reloading their weapons. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2983714.ece

[SqdnGuns 21]

Just a matter of time before that happens here..............

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Just a matter of time before that happens here..............

What riots featuring violent gangs? We've had those already and they'll keep popping up from time to time.

[kerewin21 2]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

[Bertrand 0]

These events in France have nothing to do with Islam or religion.

[SqdnGuns 21]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

And the fundamentalist Muslims have cornered the market............

[PlatyPius 5]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

...and Christians have caused more pain, suffering, and death in the world than anyone.

[Heracles 417]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

...and Christians have caused more pain, suffering, and death in the world than anyone.

What did the man who caused the last world war believe in again? Which lead to the death of 50,000,000+ people.

Hint: Starts with A and ends with t

Edited December 3, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[PlatyPius 5]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

...and Christians have caused more pain, suffering, and death in the world than anyone.

What did the man who caused the last world war believe in again? Which lead to the death of 50,000,000+ people.

Hint: Starts with A and ends with t

Almaty-ist?

[Heracles 417]

These events in France have nothing to do with Islam or religion.

Not Islam or Muslims as a whole but there is no denying that there is a growing faction, within the religion, which is determined in causing havoc and death towards others.

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

...and Christians have caused more pain, suffering, and death in the world than anyone.

What did the man who caused the last world war believe in again? Which lead to the death of 50,000,000+ people.

Hint: Starts with A and ends with t

Almaty-ist?

yeah, he is a bit of a war monger

Edited December 3, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[kerewin21 2]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

...and Christians have caused more pain, suffering, and death in the world than anyone.

Ummm... you base this on what? I think it's kind of hard to quantify how much pain, suffering, and death each individual religion has caused.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

He doesn't have hundreds of thousands of like minded, like acting terrorist buddies.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

religion of peace...... blah blah...... yeah... right

Timothy McVeigh claimed to be a Christian.

...and Christians have caused more pain, suffering, and death in the world than anyone.

M_____s are taking a shot at the record on a daily basis. Yawn. How are those blinders fitting? Christianity matured and the killing stopped. While I___m chose never to stop and remain in the middle ages. Not all M_____s. But their religion is being hi-jacked by extremists and the moderates are only angry at the people calling out the terrorists. Crazy world.

[Fandango 1,440]

They're only teens!