Paris Burns Again (Monday night update)
Monday 11 pm
Violence is spreading from Villiers le Bel to a dozen neighboring communities. At least twenty policemen have been injured so far tonight (forty injured last night according to the latest figures), some of them critically. The insurgents are using firebombs, iron rods, baseball bats, and firing buckshot. Journalists are attacked, their cameras are stolen. The mayor of Villiers le Bel is running a crisis center from an undisclosed location. Interior Minister Mich√®le Alliot-Marie is strangely absent, silent, or ineffectual. This is not the way it is supposed to be happening in the Sarkozy government. Don’t be surprised if Alliot-Marie is replaced early next year.
Cars, dumpsters, and buildings have been torched. A school gym has gone up in flames. Shop windows that weren’t smashed last night are targets tonight.
Police investigators and several eyewitnesses corroborate the patrolmen’s version of the accident. The police car was going at a normal speed, no sirens, no hot pursuit. The mini-motorcycle came down a side street at high speed and made a left turn, crashing directly into the police car. The police remained on the scene for approximately twenty to thirty minutes until the fire department ambulance arrived.
President Sarkozy, on a state visit to China, issued a plea for calm. It must have seemed quite logical from where he’s standing… but it’s totally inaudible here on the receiving end.
Monday morning
The tally on Sunday’s punk jihad outburst is heavy and rising.
Twenty-five policemen injured, dozens of cars burned, shops destroyed, individuals assaulted. Blind with rage, the rampaging mob found time to steal before smashing and burning. For the brother of Mushin, one of the victims, “it’s not violence, it’s an expression of rage.”
Journalists are unwelcome, often assaulted, but they are getting the story out.
According to concurrent reports, the rage broke out immediately. The police claim the motorcycle ran into their patrol car at an intersection; the enraged know better-the police car in hot pursuit of the innocent boys, Moushin and Larami, smashed into their motorcycle. Moushin’s uncle was outraged because the bodies were left lying in the fire station. But it seems that the forces that came to pick them up had to turn back because they were attacked. The boys had gone out to do a little bit of rodeo, a favorite sport in the banlieue projects. Le Parisien posted You Tube videos filmed by reckless kids.
Reckless, yes, but when they get wrecked it’s the fault of the police, the Peugeot dealership, and McDonald’s.
The euphemism for these enclaves — “quartier sensible”-bears a nugget of truth if correctly translated as “touchy neighborhoods.” Villiers le Bel is in the administrative district of Sarcelles / Garges-les-Gonesses about 20 km north of Paris. Not so long ago Sarcelles was the home sweet home of Jewish refugees from North Africa; today it is their nightmare. They endure constant attacks and harassment from the permanently enraged African-Arab-Muslim residents who live cheek by jowl with their still neat clean streets.
Socialist leader François Hollande is demanding the truth, the whole truth and of course the right truth on this incident-it has to be the fault of the police, the fault of the brutal Sarkozy government, the fault of deaf ears turned to the suffering of youths in this, the touchiest of touchy neighborhoods.
Whether this remains an isolated incident or the beginning of a new chain of assaults against law and order, it exposes the recent strike for what it is: psychodrama in a country whose citizens voted for just the opposite. Neither the railroad workers nor the voters will get anything worth having if they don’t come to terms with the seething rage in those touchy enclaves. Readers who have been following the al Dura affair will notice the child-killing motif-you killed our kid(s) we’ll burn your house down.
Sunday night
Fires are raging in the banlieue tonight. Two boys aged 15 and 16 riding on a mini-motorcycle (prohibited on the road) hit a police car this afternoon in Villiers-le-Bel. The boys, who weren’t wearing helmets, were killed. Hundreds of enraged men and boys are tearing up the neighborhood.
Le Parisien reports that they burned down a Peugeot dealership, sacked a train station and shops, tore up a McDonald’s, stole the day’s receipts and attacked customers, smashed and burned cars, and are still going strong. A police commissioner who tried to talk to the mob was attacked with iron rods; his face and skull are fractured. A police station was burned down, seven policemen were injured.
Interviewed by Le Parisien, the uncle of Moushin Souhhali, one of the victims, says he understands the rage; it’s terrible to lose a 15 year-old boy. His body, claims the uncle, was dumped at the fire station with no respect. The police who, in his opinion, caused the accident were nowhere to be seen. He heard they were speeding. His nephew was a good boy, not a delinquent.
The November 2005 riots that lasted three weeks were triggered by the death by electrocution of two teenage boys who ran away from the police and hid in an electric substation. According to the sociological interpretation of the incident, the police were guilty of pursuing the innocent boys.
Those pesky “youths” again. So is it Jewish kids or Catholic kids or Buddhist kids destroying police stations and burning cars?
It’s the Amish Lou. He was a good boy, just a little restive, yes, that’s the story… that’s why he was on a stolen motorcycle.
Definitely the Jews’ fault. This entire situation. Gotta be.
So what did France expect? You encourage something, you get more of it.
Three magic words, which should stop these “yoots” in their tracks:
Shoot.to.Kill
The problem was that the police were in a country whose residents don’t like illegal immigrants.
C’est la vie, no?
My local DA says he’s never met a guilty person, it’s “some other guy” who did it (must have done it).
All our children are completely innocent, couldn’t possibly have done what they are accused of, and it’s all the cops’ fault.
Ya sure, ya betcha.
I don’t care who you are, what country you live in, or what religion you follow, attempting to violate the laws of physics always has disastrous consequences.
And isn’t it interesting that even in the suburbs of Paris there is nothing that will turn a bad boy into a saint faster than getting killed.
The boy’s family shouldn’t blame the French authorities, they should blame the Brits. After all, if Isaac Newton hadn’t invented Physics the boys might still be alive.
Don’t laugh, it makes as much sense as why they’re doing now.
I thought there was something I wasn’t getting last time. What on earth do these rioters want? Is it pure jihad or is there some other justification? I mean – this incident just isn’t a cause for rioting. Or I need someone to explain it.
“A police commissioner who tried to talk to the mob was attacked with iron rods; his face and skull are fractured.”
Good for the commish. They should send out more police commissioners to ‘talk with the mob’. Then, when they get their heads caved in, maybe someone with a pair of balls will take over for the police.
It will be interesting to see how Sarkozy handles this.
I’m from Holland, and I can tell you that the western part of Europe is getting eradicated by huge groups of foreigners, mostly muslims. It happened here in Amsterdam a month ago, it happened before in Paris, and now they hit Paris again. Our left-sided politicians are sitting duck, they are afraid to be called a racist, but our countries are getting raped so we REALLY need help. How about the American army? Our police are wimps!
Oh goodie. Can’t wait to hear CNN twist themselves into a PC, multicultural lather. Last time, they referred to these thugs as “disaffected, African-American French youths”. What shall it be this time?
Dom, They are waiting for any excuse to riot, so if anything happens which results in a death they can start again, there has been a couple of close calls over the two years since 2005 with ambushes on police, but the police held back from action that would result in a martyr, but now they have their excuse to riot.
Seems the French have an existential problem.
Why on Earth was this police commissioner trying to talk to these mutants? What did he think that would accomplish? The only way to communicate with brutal savages such as these is for the police to have gunned the rioters down. Try doing this once and you won’t see any more rioting. Then round up the muslims and throw them out of the country. The west better get its act together.
At some point people in France are going to go off on these muslim “youths” and it is not going to be pretty. There has already been one case of ethnic cleansing in Europe recently. It did not go well for the muslims involved until the US came to help them. I really doubt that we will jump in to stop it, if it starts up again.
The muslims want a Holy War, they better be careful or they might just get what they wish for.
Hey Dutchie,
You should be the first kid on your block to tell the liberals in your country that islam isn’t a race.
Here’s another helpful hint, if you don’t show fear, terrorists cease to exist by definition. Then they are just…. criminals.
Dutchie, I feel your pain my friend but don’t count on the USA to come riding to the rescue this time around. After helping you lot out through two world wars and 60 years of military support we’re done. As far as most Americans are can tell the vast majority of western Europe couldn’t be bothered to cross the street to piss on us if we were on fire, so don’t expect us to strain ourselves helping you out anymore. You are reaping the benefits of previous colonialism in Africa and 50 years of generous social welfare programs coupled with unfettered immigration that your pols allowed to flourish. It’s a shame that the European people will have to pay the price for this folly, but if you can’t get your own house in order then we’ll deal with Eurabia when that time comes…but not before. My advice, grow a set and deal with the foreign element in your midst, and if that means sending in the Army to restore order in those enclaves, then include a large stack of body bags as well.
What on earth do these rioters want? –> I think they enjoy rioting. They are having fun. But it shows they have violent tendencies and do not like their new country. There is a lot of racial tension even when it does not flare up like that. I agree with a comment I read on a blog: “The riots are just the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is permanent and omnipresent insecurity.”
Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to own a Peugeot can only empathize with the “youths”
A riot is but tragic comedy, non? What can one man do against such absurdities? Existence is a farce set in motion by a cruel God who knows not and cares not. I pull heavily on a Galloise and exhale slowly. A man should not fight the ineffable, but yet he must for the sake of dignity. I shrug. My companions shrug. We order a round of absinthe from the waiter. What, after all, is a burning neighborhood in the grand scheme of the universe? My companions shrug again. I think this afternoon I will see my mistress. Later, I will dine with my wife.
If Americans give up on Europe the progressive Leftists and their allies Islamic-Jihadists will win.
Stand on the side of freedom not tyranny, fight against the unholy alliance between progressive Left and Islamic-Jihad; these are the bad guys.
Mr. Paules,
Oui. But alas, what could be the meaning of the word, “riot,” in a post-capitalist predialectic form of nationalism, as in the case of France, except for the very meaninglessness of consciousness, or rationalism and the posttextual paradigm of context?
Dear Derrida, where are you now to sort all this out for us?
I am really sorry for the two africans who died in these circumstances and if the police did not assist them, well that’s also very wrong but we law-abiding people are FED UP with the violence that these people are causing. What do they want, break the law and get away with it. Those who don’t like it should just leave or be deported. then they know what it means, it is not fair for many foreign law or other immigrant law abiding citizens to bear the brunt because of these highly organised gangs who apparently have ulterior motives.
Wait, wait, all of you have it wrong. It’s Bush’s fault.
BMOON,
You are well-named, you who bemoon (arghh!) the obvious without appreciating the ironies. The great tete de m***e of the academy is no more. He is but compost, fertilizer for daisies, in point of fact an ex-philosophe. Take heart and be of good cheer in the full knowledge that his loss is most certainly our gain. Derridian thought and Islam have much in common. The concept of “zero” comes to mind. Muslim mathematicians invented the idea, but only Derrida could wrap the concept in notions so erudite as to render the expression totally meaningless! I can hardly wrap my mind around it. Islam invented nothing, but Derrida expressed it in ways unfathomed by average minds. This was true genius. Garcon! A bottle of Pernot for the table!
Monsieur Paules: That is quite the blase attitude towards riots, mais non? No wonder Paris is burning. French people must rediscover their joie de vivre, or they will be abolished by their own insouciance.
What are you drinking mon amie? A Clalfornia Merlot perchance? Moon is a Faux amis, from the Norman French, “deMoen” which, of course, those shopkeepers could not get straight when we went over there. Sigh. c’est la vie. But what does it ll realy matter? We twiddle while Paris burns. I think Foucault would be better suited for this moment – his brilliant thesis of the reality of futility as opposed to Baudrillard’s crass suggestions as to the use of precultural sublimation to analyse language. Riots? What is “riot?” “Islam”. What Islam? How absurd when, in reality, truth is fundamentally dead anyways. Ah, what a sunset with the glowing buildings silhoutetted in the foreground! Magnifique!
Dutchie,
Don’t kid yourself with the Americans coming to France to help you guys out. We don’t even have any real military presence at America, our entire army is all over the world, although most is in Japan, Iraq and Afghanistan and Middle Eastern countries. While America is unprotected as more illegal immigrants from Mexico continue to flow in to take the American Southwest from us.
We bought the land from the Mexicans a long time ago, and they want it back? Back to my point, my point that is – don’t hope for anyone from America to help you. As long those Muslim youth continue to bring Paris to it’s knees, entire Europe will be brought to it’s knees.
That’s why you don’t let any non-white immigration in any white countries. they’re more trouble than they are even worth it.
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/Prophet_of_Doom_Prologue.Islam
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