French Kids Go Apeshit, Burn Down Police Station
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PoiSoNeD_CaNdY a répondu le Mon 26 Nov, 2007 @ 10:57am |
 Coolness: 91650 | PARIS, Nov. 26 — Angry youths clashed with the French police in two suburbs north of Paris overnight, burning down a police station, wounding more than two dozen police officers, including one whose lung was punctured.
The clashes began when two teenagers traveling on a motorbike died in a collision with a police car. The two teenagers who died last night were identified in the French news media merely as 15-year-old Moushin and 16-year-old Larami, who were riding on a small motorbike, or “dirt-bike,” in Villiers-le-Bel in the Val d’Oise department, north of Paris. Within an hour of the teenagers’ deaths, bands of youths began to throw stones at the police car. They also burned more than 28 cars and four private buildings, including a garage, the police said. Attackers set the police station in Villiers-le-Bel on fire, destroying it, the police said. Twenty-five police officers were wounded in the incidents, including two seriously, the police said. Nine arrests were made, mainly in Villiers-le-Bel. The violence spread to nearby Sarcelles, and some damage was reported in other towns. Patrick Trotignon, a local representative for the police union Synergie Officiers, said one officer sustained a punctured lung and took blows to the face from an attacker with a metal bar. The circumstances are reminiscent of the accidental deaths of two teenagers in 2005 in another Paris suburb that sparked a three-week wave of unrest across much of France. Those two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, were electrocuted in a power station in another suburb, Clichy-sous-Bois, in October 2005. The youths thought they were being chased by the police, although initially the police determined the deaths were an accident. A later investigation found that police officers indeed chased the two youths on foot, though not as far as the power station. That incident led to the unrest, which eventually spread to many urban areas in France. Thousands of cars were burned and dozens of public buildings were set on fire. The police authority for the Val d’Oise area described the accident today as a rather ordinary crash at an intersection. “What is almost entirely sure is that it wasn’t a chase with the youths, but that they crashed into each other at the intersection,” said a police spokeswoman for the Val d’Oise region. “There is a theory that the youths ignored the right-of-way.” Mr. Trotignon of Synergie Officiers said the kind of motorbike that was involved was not approved for road use. The damage to the patrol car was extensive but consistent with the car traveling within the speed limit when it met the collision, he said. Since the 2005 unrest, the authorities have poured in funding to help the suburban areas, which tend to suffer high unemployment rates. In France’s largely ethnic ‘banlieues’, as they are called, youth unemployment is sometimes close to 50 percent. Earlier this month the police found three gas cylinders loaded with screws and bolts in the troubled suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris. One had been placed in a trash container which was later set ablaze, in what was considered to have been a trap for the police. “There’s an escalation,” said Mr. Trotignon, speaking about the discovery of the gas cylinders in Aulnay in light of the events in Villiers-le-Bel. “It wasn’t just to scare us off, it was to kill. And now we’ve got an officer who’s got a perforated lung.” Mr. Trotignon said he expected “that tonight we’re going in for more,” with the chance that violence will spread to nearby towns. "We’ve been saying for eons that we’re sitting on a powder keg," he said. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead a répondu le Mon 26 Nov, 2007 @ 11:43am |
 Coolness: 685550 | we need some shit like that to happen here to put those fucking pigs in their place. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini a répondu le Mon 26 Nov, 2007 @ 6:43pm |
 Coolness: 145160 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD WE NEED SOME SHIT LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN HERE TO PUT THOSE FUCKING PIGS IN THEIR PLACE.
we just don't have the mentality to do shit like that, in m-city we are afraid of the police...in paris they just fucking hate the cops and everything that represents the state. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Captain.Obvious a répondu le Tue 27 Nov, 2007 @ 12:00am |
 Coolness: 32185 | NWA dislikes the police. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Deadfunk a répondu le Tue 27 Nov, 2007 @ 10:05am |
 Coolness: 152965 | we do need something like this, maybe not that hardcore, but the problem with fucking quebecois people, is that "we" are all talk but no action
where the first to whine about something, but when it comes to Do something, oops there are lots of good tv shows @ TVA, so "we" sit down and watch tv, like if the world would change just by imagining it change... i hate quebecois, even if i am one, i hate them, fucking bs |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PoiSoNeD_CaNdY a répondu le Tue 27 Nov, 2007 @ 5:02pm |
| Coolness: 91650 | Latest news: 80 cops injured in clashes, including several in serious condition.
These French kids really know how to battle with the cops. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico a répondu le Tue 27 Nov, 2007 @ 6:38pm |
 Coolness: 150420 | Originally Posted By SCREWHEAD
we need some shit like that to happen here to put those fucking pigs in their place. Why would we need something like this? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini a répondu le Tue 27 Nov, 2007 @ 6:46pm |
| Coolness: 145160 | are the transit strikes still going on in paris? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey a répondu le Tue 27 Nov, 2007 @ 8:47pm |
 Coolness: 102725 | well as soon as we get 50% unemployment rate, we trash this place! deal? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PartyPopple a répondu le Sat 1 Dec, 2007 @ 9:36am |
 Coolness: 63375 | "why would we need something like this?"
Hmm..clearly, you've never suffered at the hands of the police. Every day there are incidents of police brutality, harassment, targeting of certain demographics in our cities. I know it's true in Montreal, as much as it is here in Halifax. We need things like this to force the police to realize that they are not invincible. People will fight against their unnecessary and unwanted control over their lives, and the violence that they suffer at the hands of those who are there to "serve and protect". Remember the last time they came and shut down a party? Who were they serving and protecting? It sure as hell wasn't you, the youth, the ravers, the people who are showing their dissent to an oppressive society by breaking free for a night. Eventually, as the police get more and more aggressive in their manners of "discipline", things like this, or other ways of fighting against their assumed power, will have to happen. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn a répondu le Sat 1 Dec, 2007 @ 12:27pm |
 Coolness: 178605 | you're right about police oppression.
However, there are some serious problems there, criminality, street gangs, rape, etc... I think those stuffs should be stopped. But yah, often police only arrest minor criminals, and are scared of targeting the big ones... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo a répondu le Sun 2 Dec, 2007 @ 6:55am |
 Coolness: 146285 | Originally Posted By BASDINI
are the transit strikes still going on in paris? no, they lasted for 2 weeks only ; but new ones are planned late december or maybe january/february |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey a répondu le Sun 2 Dec, 2007 @ 11:33am |
| Coolness: 102725 | AHA! je comprends maintenant pourquoi le Parcours est si populaire en France. C'est que les jeunes sont en train de fuir des authorites.  |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn a répondu le Sun 2 Dec, 2007 @ 2:26pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo a répondu le Sun 2 Dec, 2007 @ 6:32pm |
| Coolness: 146285 | Originally Posted By TREY
AHA! je comprends maintenant pourquoi le Parcours est si populaire en France. C'est que les jeunes sont en train de fuir des authorites.
c'est quoi le "Parcours" ? ça veut dire quoi "les jeunes sont en train de fuir des authorites" ? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini a répondu le Sun 2 Dec, 2007 @ 7:25pm |
| Coolness: 145160 | A fitness trail, or "par course" (from the French parcours meaning course) consists of a path or course equipped with obstacles or stations distributed along its length for exercising the human body to promote good health. The course is designed to promote physical fitness training in the style attributed to Georges Hébert. In general, fitness trails can be natural or man made, located in areas such as forest, transportation rights-of-way, parks, or urban settings. Equipment exists to provide specific forms of physiological exercise, and can consist of natural features including climbable rocks, trees, and river embankments, or manufactured products (stepping posts, chin-up and climbing bars) designed to provide similar physical challenges. The degree of difficulty of a course is determined by terrain slope, trail surface (dirt, grass, gravel, etc), obstacle height (walls) or length (crawls) and other features. Urban par courses tend to be flat, to permit participation by the elderly, and to accommodate cyclists, runners, skaters and walking. The new concept of an outdoor gym, containing traditional gym equipment specifically designed for outdoor use, is also considered to be a development of the par course.
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo a répondu le Mon 3 Dec, 2007 @ 5:40am |
| Coolness: 146285 | lol ok...
this is "parcours du combattant", inspired of military training and kid games, and far from being popular in france maybe you're thinking of the movie yamakasi, which is, well... a movie |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope a répondu le Mon 3 Dec, 2007 @ 5:51pm |
 Coolness: 201185 | PS "angry youths" is a code word for "north african youth".
By "ethnic" they mean "north african muslims". I hate the word "ethnic", it is a pseudo-racist cop-out word. It's kind of like when you make up your own word to refer to certain cultural groups, so people won't really understand what you are saying or not be offended. Typical in the liberal media, which is afraid of offending anybody or accurately reflecting the issues at hand. For instance, the article should read: Marginalized north african immigrants who can't integrate into french society, despite what appeared to be a tolerant stance toward immigration in the past, are burning the shit out of everything because they have nothing else to do. The "accommodation" debates in Quebec are largely due to stuff like this. Mise À Jour » nothingnopenope a écrit sur Mon 3 Dec, 2007 @ 5:52pm it's not spoiled white european french kids who are doing this, it's marginalized immigrants who essentially live in ghettos outside the main city. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini a répondu le Mon 3 Dec, 2007 @ 11:39pm |
| Coolness: 145160 | life is hard in paris... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope a répondu le Sun 9 Dec, 2007 @ 2:29am |
| Coolness: 201185 | What ever happened to peaceful protest? These kinds of violent protests created a cloud of fear which essentially paved the way for the election of Sarcozy. |
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