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    Chirac's horror as woman burnt in riot

    IS THIS WHAT IS IN STORE FOR US HERE IN THE US?
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... w_30102006

    Chirac's horror as woman burnt in riot

    By Peter Allen in Paris
    Last Updated: 10:10am GMT 30/10/2006

    Riot police reinforcements were deployed in Marseille last night after the latest outbreak of urban violence in France left a young woman in a critical condition with life-threatening burns.



    A French policeman stands beside a burnt bus in the suburbs of Marseille

    President Jacques Chirac expressed his horror at the attack hours after the 26-year-old woman and three others were ambushed by rioting teenagers while travelling on a bus in the southern port city.
    The assailants – said by some witnesses to be as young as 15 – forced the vehicle's doors open, spilled flammable liquid inside, and set it alight.
    There were similar attacks in major cities across the country at the weekend, just hours after the passing of the anniversary of the rioting and car-burning that brought terror to urban areas last year.
    In a statement referring to the Marseilles attack, Mr Chirac's office said: "The president told the victim's family about his horror concerning this shameful act and assured them everything would be done to find the criminals and punish them with the utmost severity."
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    The woman, who was not immediately named, was yesterday in intensive care in hospital. Those attacked with her were suffering from burns and the effects of smoke inhalation.
    The Marseilles prosecutor, Jacques Beaume, said: "The young woman is in a very serious condition – hovering between life and death."
    Local officials said some extra 160 officers were being sent to Marseille, which remained largely untouched by last year's riots. They said police would enforce a "zero tolerance" policy in troublesome neighbourhoods.
    The three weeks of national disturbances last year caused more than £140 million of damage, with thousands of vehicles and public buildings burned. Immigrant communities from socially deprived backgrounds, especially from north Africa, were largely blamed for the trouble.
    This year 4,000 extra police were drafted into the suburbs of Paris to deal with a new threat. Ambushes occurred on the outskirts of the capital, with three policeman badly injured by Molotov cocktails in the suburb of Grigny on Saturday. Masked youths, some brandishing hand guns, attacked buses in the north-eastern Parisian suburb of Blanc-Mesnil.
    On Friday, 277 vehicles were set on fire across the country. Police said riot officers and youths had clashed in Reims and Toulouse.
    Last year's riots were sparked by the deaths in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois of Zyed Benna, 17, and Bouna Traore, 15, both from families of African descent. They were electrocuted as they hid in an electricity sub-station while fleeing from police. Night after night youths, most of them from poor Muslim families, clashed with police in some 275 towns, until order was officially restored on Nov 17.
    On Friday, more than 1,000 people made a silent march past the spot where the two teenagers died.

    Police and suburban mayors have warned that the conditions that led to the riots remain firmly in place in districts plagued by unemployment of up to 40 per cent.
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    I'm sure this is tearing Chirac apart {sarcasm}.

    I thought he'd be happy now that he has realized his dream of a multicultural, diverse paradise. I'm sure that what happened in this latest riot was all the white racist frenchmens fault and the true way to solve this problem would be to give them more money, more jobs and better housing to live in. Maybe even throw in some more bilingual education just to be safe. Seriously if the French would just stop being so damn xenophobic, this stuff wouldn't happen.

    YEAH WHATEVER!

    Chirac is a douchebag.
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