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From No Pasaran:
New Year's Eve scorecard: 313 cars torched (plus 83 by ricochet) and 258 arrests despite a police presence of 25,000.
The French are getting so touchy about these statistics that they are "breaking out" a separate category of torched cars as in "cars accidentally exploding because they were too close to cars that were intentionally torched" (voitures brûlée par propagation).
French authorities (who seem to have much more authority over bean counting regulations than over their own territory) confide that such levels of violence are well within what is now considered to be acceptable inevitable.
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UPDATED - BREAKING: BUS EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK CITYUPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST Brooklyn: *Bus On Fire* Box #2748. 7 Ave & 92 St. U/D; units repotring a MTA bus exploded involving 6 cars. NY01 UPDATED - Here’s a photo from Twitter UPDATE: A bus and...
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We'll Always Have Paris
From No Pasaran:
New Year's Eve scorecard: 313 cars torched (plus 83 by ricochet) and 258 arrests despite a police presence of 25,000.
The French are getting so touchy about these statistics that they are "breaking out" a separate category of torched cars as in "cars accidentally exploding because they were too close to cars that were intentionally torched" (voitures brûlée par propagation).
French authorities (who seem to have much more authority over bean counting regulations than over their own territory) confide that such levels of violence are well within what is now considered to be acceptable inevitable.
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UPDATED - BREAKING: BUS EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK CITYUPDATED AT BOTTOM OF POST Brooklyn: *Bus On Fire* Box #2748. 7 Ave & 92 St. U/D; units repotring a MTA bus exploded involving 6 cars. NY01 UPDATED - Here’s a photo from Twitter UPDATE: A bus and...
- Travolta Stars In Movie About Oppressed Muslim Youth In Paris - Muslim Youth Threaten Crew And Torch Their Cars
From Paris With Love "Youths" biting the hand that tries to understand. From the Daily Mail: Filming of a new John Travolta movie on a deprived Paris housing estate has been cancelled - after rioting youths torched ten of the production’s cars and...
- Third Night Of Rioting In Paris
The "youths" continue to riot. You gotta wonder if these riots are planned at a higher level. Obviously, they were "provoked", but they are, apparently, being directed by adults. A report from Le Monde newspaper described boys as young as 13 taking...
- We Will Always Have Paris
Or will we? French police are deploying 1000 riot police to the suburb where the "youths" are rioting: VILLIERS LE BEL, France (AFP) - The French authorities deployed 1,000 police to a northern Paris suburb Tuesday to prevent a third night of youth...
- The Intifada That Won't Quit
From the UK Times: An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have...