Video And Story: France Stunned By Muslim Rioters’ Savagery - “Some Pigs Must Die!”
Times Online:
IN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.
What happened next has sickened the nation. As Illy tried to reassure the gang that there would be an investigation into the deaths of two teenagers whose motorbike had just collided with a police car, he heard a voice shouting: “Somebody must pay for this. Some pigs must die tonight!”
The 43-year-old commissaire realised it was time to leave, but that was not possible: they set his car ablaze. He stood as the mob closed in on him, parrying the first few baseball bat blows with his arms. An iron bar in the face knocked him down.
“I tried to roll myself into a ball on the ground,” said Illy from his hospital bed. He was breathing with difficulty because several of his ribs had been broken and one had punctured his lung.
His bruised and bloodied face signalled a worrying new level of barbarity in the mainly Muslim banlieues, where organised gangs of rioters used guns against police in a two-day rampage of looting and burning last week.
Not far from where Illy was lying was a policeman who lost his right eye after being hit by pellets from a shotgun. Another policeman displayed a hole the size of a 10p coin in his shoulder where a bullet had passed through his body armour.
Altogether 130 policemen were injured, dozens by shotgun pellets and shells packed with nails that were fired from a homemade bazooka. It prompted talk of urban “guerrilla warfare” being waged on French streets against the forces of law and order.
By the end of the week an extraordinarily heavy police presence in Villiers-le-Bel, where most of the rioting took place, appeared to have halted the violence: on top of public transport strikes and student protests against his reform plans, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, could not afford a repeat of 2005, when a similar incident involving the deaths of two youths provoked the worst French urban unrest in four decades.
Things were so tense in the suburbs, however, that the riots could easily erupt again with the prospect of deaths on either side setting off a much greater explosion and, conceivably, the deployment of the army to keep peace.
“Given the weapons being used, it was lucky that nobody was killed,” said a policeman. Nearby were the charred remains of the local constabulary. The nursery school was burnt down. So was the library.
Rioting two years ago was widely regarded as a protest against poor housing, racial discrimination and unemployment of up to 40% in the grim housing estates surrounding most big French cities.
But “Sarko” dismissed suggestions that nothing had been done to improve the situation, referring to the “Marshall plan” for the banlieues being drawn up by Fadela Amara, his urban development minister.
At the same time he argued that, far from reflecting difficult living conditions, the violence was a result of the “thugocracy” of the suburbs, where drug-trafficking criminals held sway.
“We shouldn’t try to excuse the inexcusable,” said the president in a television address to an anxious nation on Thursday, ridiculing the left’s vision of rioters as “victims of social injustice”. He pledged that those who fired at police would be tracked down, one by one, and tried on charges of attempted murder.
Lawlessness in the suburbs is an awkward issue for Sarkozy because he had promised to deal with it as interior minister, when he introduced “zero tolerance” policing, only to be accused of aggravating the problem by referring to trouble-makers as “thugs” and “scum”. Despite some successes, many of the suburban ghettoes remain a law unto their own and, like parts of New York in the bad old days, policemen do not like to set foot there.
“It felt like they were out to kill us,” said one of the officers in Villiers-le-Bel last week. “We knew that there were weapons in the suburbs, but they have never been turned against us like that. The kids were shooting at us at close range, loading and reloading their weapons. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Sarkozy has ordered a full judicial inquiry into the teenagers’ deaths, even though all the evidence seems to support the police version that the boys were thrown from their unlicensed motorcycle when it accidentally collided with a patrol car. Friends and relatives of the victims dismiss the official account of the incident as fantasy.
As for Illy, he says he is not feeling vengeful but has identified one of his attackers from police photographs. He is certain to be able to pinpoint the rest. “Fortunately,” he said, “I’ve got a very good memory.”
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December 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm^^^ WTF is this post?
start by using fire hoses and rubber bullets and move on from there
December 1st, 2007 at 8:45 pmI figured this same shit would happen again, just surprised it took this long. What really bothers me is that the muslims have upped the ante. Just as many of us predicted.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:35 pmTime for a few well placed shots to send the wannabe’s home and separate them from the real thugs. Then the killin can begin.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:55 pmThe French police need to find an effective way to deal with this crap. France would suck to live in anyways. I guess I just don’t like much about it there ohh well.
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 am“the kids”. Is that what they’re calling Junior Jihahi Jerks these days?
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 am“Jihadi”, not “Jihahi”.
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 amGreg M,
your imagination sucks !
These latter riots were nothing comparatively to 2005 ; there wasn’t an empathy from the different surburbs elsewhere in France : they remain local. But this is not a reason not to take the concern seriously. I have already talk about the evenment on a previous post the days before, so if your really interested in “reality” check it, don’t let lazyness take the monopole of your brain.
Now, an american friend (who comes on that board) was in France a few week ago (during the strikes) would tell you that nothing bad happened to him though, he managed to eat like an ogre and kept his fitness as his has to walk to the different places he visited
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:14 amfranchie, are you on the french tourist board?
speaking of eating well, what do they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France?
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:41 amSteve in NC (NC = North Carolina ?)
do you need to find an accomodation ?
1/4 livre
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:56 amthis is our future if illegals aren’t dealt with!
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:45 amGive em a whiff of grapeshot ala 13 vendémaire baby!
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:53 amTrapper - Future? It’s happening now. There are ‘day laborers’ (read illegals) having a standoff with Sherif Joe now. Pukes like these marched down streets a year and a half ago waving Mexican flags and demanding rights.
Sheriff Joe arrests illegals at local business:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/103196
The illegals are doing this to other business too.
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:17 amAh, the fruit of liberalism.
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:06 amDon’t you just love it when its ripe and juicy?
Anyone think that muslims are moderate? In their hearts they are all rooting for the jihadis to win. It’s a death cult and I say let’s give them what they want. Death to the fidels!!!! Hey, that has a ring to it. If we are the INfidels, does that make them the fidels?
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:05 amJarhead68,
Fidelis is latin for faitful so yes that makes them “fidels”. Faithful to what though? Faithful to a death cult that wishes to kill or subjigate all who aren’t “faithful”. I wholeheartedly agree with your assesment. Islam is evil.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 amI can’t spell today:
faithful, assessment, subjugate
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 am40% unemployment is their own fault. If I move to France, then refuse to embrace French culture or educate myself, why should I expect to be hired anywhere? This is the same for any country. What employer is going to hire you? Employers are also very picky in France because the governmant makes it almost impossible to fire somebody. No wonder they are last on the list to get a job. Many of these self centered Muslim youths are born in France too, but refuse to become French or educate themsleves. They expect the French to accomodate their culture. Stupid bastards. I’m from Holland and we have a similar problem. Immigration laws are getting much tighter in Europe because of these problems. This is another reason why many Europeans don’t want Turkey in the EU. They should be sent back to their 7th century home countries and see how they like it there. Idiots.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:45 amIN retrospect, it was not a good idea to have left his pistol at home. Called to the scene of a traffic accident in the Paris suburbs last Sunday, Jean-François Illy, a regional police chief, came face to face with a mob of immigrant youths armed with baseball bats, iron bars and shotguns.
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“France Stunned …”
So, what’s new? Historically, France has always been “stunned” …
The problem with the Euro countries, and Great Britain (England) is their police don’t seem to take violence and crime very seriously. They have a problem taking the defensive posture in their daily job. Who the fuck is a cop and goes off to work WITHOUT their weapon??!!?? I know that many cops in this (yeah, gun happy … so what?!) nation happen to carry some sort of gun while off duty.
Steve in NC is right. Start blasting these bastards with water cannons and rubber bullets … And IF they don’t get a clue, step up the “fire power/ammo” … Europe had better wake the hell up, and take charge before they’re bending over with a rusty saw scraping at their neck(s).
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:48 am@ The problem with the Euro countries, and Great Britain (England) is their police don’t seem to take violence and crime very seriously. They have a problem taking the defensive posture* in their daily job.
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* In a re-read of my post I meant “offensive” posture …
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:00 amWe had a problem like that in LA not long ago. The cops were being shot at by gang members and could not quell the riots. So the 82nd was called in. They promptly deployed their snipers and took out all of the gang snipers and anyone else firing on the cops. Result: The cops, and the 82nd took the city back from the gangs.
It worked in LA, and in Detroit in ‘68. It would work just as well in France. Start with rubber bullets and tear gas, while deploying military and police snipers to deal with anyone shooting at a cop.
Watch how fast the Islamofacists lay down their arms.
Excusing bad behavior without any sort of accountability breeds only contempt for authority and more bad behavior from scumbag Islamofacists or any other gang members.
C’mon Sarko get off the stick bro and smack down these pigs.
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:09 pmGive the cops their due.