French cabinet to extend emergency powers though unrest subsiding

[maddezmom]

PARIS (AFP) - The French cabinet was expected to approve a three-month extension of emergency police powers in order to subdue the wave of suburban unrest sweeping the country, but overnight figures showed the level of violence continuing to subside.


Meanwhile the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU is prepared to release 50 million euros (59 million dollars) in aid for areas damaged by the two and a half weeks of unrest.

President Jacques Chirac, who has been criticised for not appearing to take a lead role in the crisis, was to make a televised address to the nation during the evening.

And the interior ministry said that the first expulsion orders for foreign nationals convicted of taking part in the riots could be issued during the day, despite the objections of rights groups and the left-wing opposition.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051114/wl_afp/franceriots_051114105716

[tocqueville]

1. new facts show that the "worse" part of the rioters are black

and not north-africans. The worse attacks are made by young rioters without any other idelogy than anti-white racism. They come from polygamist families with no control or little control over the kids that practically live on the streets and finance themselves with drug trafficking and theft.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Link, s'il vous plait?

Do you happen to have anyhing to back those assertions up?

[tocqueville]

8. French sources and the Guardian

http://www.lepoint.fr/dossiers_france/document.html?did=170257

First, the facts. According to the French intelligence services, the areas where radical Islamic ideologies have spread furthest in France have actually proved the calmest over recent weeks. Second, characterising the rioters as 'Muslim' at all is ludicrous. Most were as Westernised as you would expect third-generation immigrants to be and far more interested in soft drugs and rap than getting up for dawn prayers.

Indeed, a high proportion was of sub-Saharan African descent and not Muslim at all. Others were white and so, following Phillips's description of the darker skinned rioters as 'Arab Muslims', should presumably be referred to as 'Caucasian Christians'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1641463,00.html

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3. That sounds

suspiciously like what a lot of white people said about many of the riots in the US (Watts, Olemiss, Kent State, and LA Riots).

I'm not saying there isn't thuggery involved (there probably is), but I imagine its a good bit more to it than just that.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. "50 million euros"

Great. Just great. My tax dollars at work. :eyes:

[callady]

6. France Clears Way to Prolong Emergency Powers

France clears way to prolong emergency powers

Staff and agencies
Monday November 14, 2005


French ministers today approved a bill to extend the country's state of emergency for three months to tackle the country's urban unrest.

Youths destroyed 284 vehicles last night in the 18th consecutive night of violence; 374 vehicles were attacked the night before.

Paris was calm, and police spoke of a "confirmed lull" in the violence, but there were reports of scattered incidents elsewhere including clashes between police and rioters in Lyon.

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The violence, which has led to more than 2,700 arrests, has decreased since Wednesday, when the government imposed the current 12-day state of emergency, which empowers France's regions to impose curfews, conduct house searches and ban rallies. The move revived a 50-year-old, colonial-era law.

Some 40 towns and cities have so far availed themselves of the measures, which are due to expire on November 20. If parliament approves the bill the cabinet has cleared, as is expected to happen tomorrow, the state of emergency will be extended for three months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1642438,00.html

[Village Idiot]

7. L'Acte Patriotic? I and II?