The "Youths" Are At It Again
From Expatica France:
These are the "youths" who have no ethnicity, no religion, no language, no heritage, and no names. They wear no distinguishing clothes. They speak with no identifable accent. Their suburb has no history or culture or other features that distinguish it from France. These are just French kids who, for no known reason, just decided to beat the crap out of the French police.Police unions reacted with outrage Wednesday after two members of a CRS anti-riot unit were badly hurt in an ambush by youths in the southern Paris suburb of Corbeil-Essonnes.
The men were patrolling Tuesday night in an unmarked car in the Les Tartarets housing project when the vehicle was attacked with stones, a police spokesman said.
When one of the officers left the vehicle, he was set upon by about 20 youths who had been hiding in the undergrowth."The driver rushed to help. The two were then covered in blows to the face and other parts of the body as they lay on the ground," the spokesman said. The gang dispersed when reinforcements arrived.
Both officers suffered injuries to the face and head, as well as bruising to the body. One was hospitalised.
The Synergie-Officier police union said it was "revolted by this savage attack
.... These explosions of violence against the police are a kind of guerrilla warfare aimed at getting the forces of law and order to leave certain areas in order to immerse them in a logic of sedition and terror."
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