Thank you for covering and explaining this ugly incident of French anti-Semitism for readers like me in the US. The MSM in the US just avoids the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping across Europe.

I wish and pray that the US and France can bridge the chasm of their differences over the Iraq War, which I opposed as a Vietnam veteran. We really need each other, and we should be working together to protect democratic insititutions. But because of this foreign policy debacle in Iraq, all the resources in our democratic arsenal have been squandered in a civil war imploding there, when the real focus of the battle against Western democracies is centered in Europe. That is the real ideological battleground.

But it does not mean it should. It should never be that way.

When yobs attempt to hurt someone badly, it is the duty of police to protect by all means necessary. That what happened.

Whatever now the friends and parents will tell about the dead guy, fact he was in a hooligan mob, it was not here by chance.
Parents and friends always know better than police that their kid or friend is actually a very cool guy that never hurt someone, work nicely at school and is respectful of anyone – if you hear from them, it is really astonishing that their kid or friend is known to the police. But is there even one witness that pretend the supporters were actually throwing a nice and friendly party?

That being said, please Morton Doodslag, notice that when you insult France and French people in general, you are actually also insulting the police officer that saved a life (or at least saved someone a trip at the hospital) the other day. Not nice.

How wonderful it is when someone lets their guard down and says what they really think…

Thanks for the insight, Cheese_eating_surrender_Monkey! You distinguish yourself as a true “dirty frog”, “neo-nazi smelly third world inferior”, of indeterminate race. Race is immaterial. Ideology is material.

Just out of curiosity, what do you consider a successful “anti-Semitic event”? One in which one or more of the anti-Semites aren’t harmed?

France and the French are so utterly arrogant , have always been so utterly arrogant, that they are unable to see how heinous they have become.

Also: the mother of the young Jew gave a statement in the paper thanking the policeman for his courage in saving her son, who btw is not even a supporter of the Israeli team, he had in fact called his mother when the score was 2-2, and thought that was just great. Apparently, Yanniv got separated from his friends while looking for the metro entrance, and was verbally attacked and then feared for his life.

If you want to deny anti-semitism in France, you’ll have to do better than this. J’aime la France, but I also recognize that it continues to have a problem with antisemitism–I even hear it from people I know, it’s such a casual bigotry. But the problem with antisemitism in France is the same as the problem with globalisation and anti-liberalisme : envy, jealousy and a profound distaste for the success of others (ou bien : “les fran√ßais aiment l’argent, mais pas celui des autres…”). And this is a problem France has to overcome if it is to faire face to all of its current economic and social problems.

Use of lethal force doesn’t wait for injuries it acts on immediate threat.

There is a term for those who wait to be injured before responding: decedent.

There are many things that are suspicious in the PSG case. First, usually in France when a cop shoots and kill someone, whatever the circumstances are, the medias do their usual anticop routine. Actually there were tremendous articles about the insensitive police which chased the 2 morons that got themselves fried last year in Clichy. The cops in that case did not even pull out their guns and still we have a Bouziane memorial and silent march there.

Keep in mind also that despite the hundreds of officers wounded in the low intensity warfare in the banlieues, there was not ONE shot fired at our turbulent youths, much less one killed. During the riots or the day to day business in the banlieues cops have received cocktail molotovs, stones hurled in their face, shotgun shots, real bullets shots (during 2005 riots fortunately a through & through on their patrol van). My point is, what are the injuries on the cop or the victim to justify the use of lethal force? There are none.

I found very suspicious that all medias, the procureur & Nicolas Sarkozy immediately denied any wrongdoing on the part of the cop. There are also conflicting reports from eyewitnesses, including the jewish victim, that deny that a 150 people mob was after him. He said that there was 2 or 3 people chasing him, and a large crowd around that was looking/following/yelling but did nothing directly.

There is no doubt that there was hooliganism, there are always problems after this kind of match, not especially with jews but even with french teams like Marseilles, or the turkish Galatasaray for example.

There’s also the portrait of the young guy that was killed “Julien Quemeneur” that only one newspaper (I believe it’s the “Journal du Dimanche) published. He was apparently a die-hard football fanatic, but not the neo-nazi that the medias & all described immediately on the day of the events , before any investigation took place.

So instead of doing the usual “the dirty frogs are a neo-nazi smelly third world inferior race” piece I would have expected more investigation from Pajamas Medias.

May be it’s just an anti-semitic event that turned bad, may be and may be not.