Teenager death sparks riot in Paris
Plimp | 12.08.2009 19:04
Some 40 rioters in a Paris suburb have hurled Molotov cocktails at police and firefighters and torched cars in a rampage prompted by the death of a teen pizza deliverer fleeing police.
The interior minister called for calm after the overnight violence.
One person fired at police with a handgun in the rioting in a housing project in Bagnolet, on Paris’ eastern edge, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said in a statement. No injuries were reported.
The latest eruption of tensions in France’s suburbs broke out after an 18-year-old riding his motorcycle through the project tried to flee a document check by police, according to a police official.
The man, who worked as a pizza deliverer, lost control of the vehicle and hit a barrier, and died en route to the hospital, the official said. The official was not authorised to be publicly named because of police policy.
Later, about 40 young people in the neighbourhood responded to the death by hurling Molotov cocktails and projectiles at police and emergency workers on the scene, Hortefeux’s office said in a statement.
The rioters set fire to 29 cars and smashed windows of a high school and store, the statement said. One person was detained and order was restored after police reinforcements arrived.
Hortefeux called for calm and insisted that “all light will be shed” on the cause of the young man’s death.
The internal police watchdog agency is also investigating the incident. The police official said there was no contact between the police car and the motorcycle.
Tensions between young people and police have long simmered in housing projects in France’s suburbs, feeding on poverty, unemployment and anger over discrimination against minorities. The suburbs erupted in 2005 in riots, largely by young Arab and black men of immigrant backgrounds, after two teens were electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police.
The interior minister called for calm after the overnight violence.
One person fired at police with a handgun in the rioting in a housing project in Bagnolet, on Paris’ eastern edge, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said in a statement. No injuries were reported.
The latest eruption of tensions in France’s suburbs broke out after an 18-year-old riding his motorcycle through the project tried to flee a document check by police, according to a police official.
The man, who worked as a pizza deliverer, lost control of the vehicle and hit a barrier, and died en route to the hospital, the official said. The official was not authorised to be publicly named because of police policy.
Later, about 40 young people in the neighbourhood responded to the death by hurling Molotov cocktails and projectiles at police and emergency workers on the scene, Hortefeux’s office said in a statement.
The rioters set fire to 29 cars and smashed windows of a high school and store, the statement said. One person was detained and order was restored after police reinforcements arrived.
Hortefeux called for calm and insisted that “all light will be shed” on the cause of the young man’s death.
The internal police watchdog agency is also investigating the incident. The police official said there was no contact between the police car and the motorcycle.
Tensions between young people and police have long simmered in housing projects in France’s suburbs, feeding on poverty, unemployment and anger over discrimination against minorities. The suburbs erupted in 2005 in riots, largely by young Arab and black men of immigrant backgrounds, after two teens were electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police.
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Following on from riots in Firminy last month
12.08.2009 19:55
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MR
Natural Selection In Action
12.08.2009 20:50
Riding off at excessive speeds beyond his control, well thats his choice.
paul
A youtube commentator...what an idiot!
12.08.2009 20:56
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Is it Ramadan again?
12.08.2009 21:38
Revolving calendar watch
Zionism is the greates threat to Europe and the World
13.08.2009 09:02
I would rather live under Islamic law than Zionist rule as we do now!
Sarkosy is a Zionist... just as many of the politicians in British and American politics are... check it out. Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw, David Miliband are probably the most well known members of Gordon Brown's Zionist Occupied Government.
James Purnell, a notorious Israel apologist, has been given the post of secretary of state for culture media and sport. As such, he will have an oversight role over the British Broadcasting Corporation and the rest of the British media.
From 2002 to 2004 James Purnell served as chairman of Labour Friends of Israel.
Jim Murphy, takes the position of minister of state for Europe with responsibility for, among other things, the BBC World Service and the British Council. Raised in apartheid South Africa, Mr Murphy served as chairman of Labour Friends of Israel during 2000-02 and has also been a member of the Anglo-Israeli All Party Parliamentary Group.
These are just a few examples... you can dig out the rest for yourselves if you are interested. Most of the people making sick comments about the oppression, suffering and deaths of Muslims in Europe and the Middle East at the hands of Zionist are also Zionists... but they will never admit this. They often pose as 'nationalists' as part of their agenda of divide and rule.
Zionism is a very aggressive and destructive ideology... it has no humane saving graces or positive aspects. Zionism is racist, elitist and deceptive... and is one of the greates threats to a civilised world. It needs to be tackled head on... do not be confused or beguiled by their clever propaganda. Read what real Jews themselves have to say about the Zionists.
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Vayoel Moshe
Written by Satmar Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, zt'l
Six million Jews were killed as a result of the Zionists
Why the Zionists resemble an arsonist who sets a fire and then scrambles to assist the victims, who imagine the arsonist to be the savior
Little John
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