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The rebellion spreads out to europe!

red star | 11.11.2005 20:30 | Social Struggles | World

NEWSFLASH:





FRANCE
In some nights the uprising in France took place in more than 250 cities and towns. Yesterday again hundreds of cars burned. The french government has announced the state of exception in 38 cities.
Facts, numbers and analysis on:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Paris_suburb_riots


GERMANY
SZ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) reports yesterday and today say that cars burned in those german cities:
-Berlin (Berlin Moabit - low income district, very high unemployment) indymedia report on:  http://switzerland.indymedia.org/de/2005/11/36207.shtml
- Bremen (also an old school building was set on fire)
- Chemnitz  http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=p&ressort=a&id=518437
- Wismar
- Düsseldorf
- München

attacks with bottles and stones on police and fire fighters in a low-income area in germany:

 http://ww.fnp.de/sixcms/detail.php/2400389

BELGIUM
since about 3 nights cars burn in Brussels. Last night was the first night that cars also burned in other cities in Belgium (SZ, yahoo news.)  http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=p&ressort=a&id=518437






wikipedia says:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Paris_suburb_riots



Belgium

On Sunday, November 6, the first possibly related incident outside France took place. Five cars were torched in Saint-Gilles, Brussels in Belgium. Belgian police considered it as an isolated case. [46] However, on Monday another five cars were torched in the region, as more were overturned and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the police. [47] In Liège, Sint-Niklaas, Bruges and even the rural community Dilbeek there were isolated events of car burning and Molotov-throwing. [48] [49] On November 8, there were fifteen more acts of car burning, Molotov-throwing and arson. New areas that were hit include Antwerp and Ghent. [50] On November 9 the police encountered conclusive evidence that the arson was inspired by the situation in France: on a torched car, the remark "Fuck you Sarkozy, Antwerp - Paris" was found. [51] In the evening, new cases of torched cars were reported. [52] [53]

Germany

A number of arson attacks and other acts of vandalism possibly inspired by the riots in France have been committed in Berlin and Germany. Six cars were set ablaze in Bremen and Berlin on the night between 6 and 7 November. In the Moabit neighborhood of Berlin, five cars were set on fire. In Bremen, a caravan (camper) burned down. Police have not ruled out the possibility that those were copycat attacks related to those in France. [54],[55]
Denmark
A number of arsons occured in Viby near Aarhus in Denmark in late October and early November.[56] Store-front windows were also smashed. After a community meeting, complete with socialworkers and police, relative calm was achieved over the weekend. However, a substantial police force had to be deployed on Wednesday, November 9, to restore order after store-smashing and attempted torchings recurred. [57][58][59][60]

Spain

On Monday, November 7, twenty trash cans, five cars and a motorbike were torched in the city of Seville. Firefighters attempting to extinguish the fire were injured by stones thrown by attackers. The subdelegate of the Spanish government in Seville considered it to be an isolated case. [61] [62] On Tuesday, November 8, another car and more trash cans were burned in many districts of Seville. [63]. Also, four cars were torched in the city of Hospitalet de Llobregat. [64]
Portugal
On November 9, two acts of car torching were reported in Lisbon, possibly inspired by the French riots.

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You are wrong

11.11.2005 22:55

The riots are a zionist conspiracy to discredit muslim communities in europe.
consider:

The mysterious deaths of the two boys at the start of the rioting. We still don't know how they died. Is it too fanciful to believe that zionists murdered them? They use their blood in 'religious' rituals. It was the sabbath (Friday/Saturday) when the boys died. The blood must be from a boy.

There are zionists in every country of the earth. Who benefits from these riots? zionists - because they can point at people who oppose them and say that they are savages. Also this was the week in which Yasser Arafat died last year. The riots distracted attention. Also Israel is in trouble with terrorism.

Zionists burned down their synagogues in Paris to distract attention from themselves. The police went to protect the synagogues but still they burnt down. How? Zionist agents burned them.

Zionists control every government on earth.

ali


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Bored & Tired

12.11.2005 00:02

... of people like ali

B&T


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time for dialogue

13.11.2005 00:16

Time for the politicians to make way and achieve a resolution to the riots for everyones sake.

1) Close the borders to anyone attempting to enter France from the countries of origin of the rioters (unless they are French citizens without dual citizenship) or people who are suspected of trying to enter the country to stir up trouble, extremism etc.

2) Instigate a lockdown of the banlieue's, a day and night curfew for the next 5 days.

3) Call-up army reservists, Gendarme reservists (already called-up actually) and declare a national emergency. Bring in the Foreign Legion to patrol the banlieue's under instructions that nobody is allowed to leave their house during the curfew at all. Food essentials will be brought to locations in the areas and people escorted by the army to pick up their rations.

4) The areas should be ringed with army and police units again to enforce the curfew. Anyone breaking the curfew should be warned they are liable to being shot. Any violence outside the curfew zones should be dealt with serverely. The police chief should go on TV and explain that any further riotting will be met with severe physical beatings for all involved from now on and the risk of being shot at if people in the curfew areas leave their home at any point.

5) All mobile phone base stations in the curfew zones should be shut down to prevent the rioters communicating. All phonelines should be shutdown to the houses preventing all calls except to the emergency services, jamming devices should be used to prevent all radio comms on all frequencies except the emergency services and government radio.

6) Each block and street should be sealed off by armed units to prevent any re-grouping and allow for each house to be checked systematically.

7) When the areas are locked down, prison trucks should be brought in escorted by the foreign legion and riot police, and along with the immigration authorities house to house raids should begin to capture every single illegal immigrant and dual citizen, and deport them all immediately on hired planes and military aircraft. If this takes time then so be it, encampments should be set-up for them to wait in.

7) Once the illegals are being dealt with, the raids should search houses for petrol bombs, weapons, etc. Anyone found with these or any evidence of riotting should be arrested.

8) Military and police helicopters with sharp shooters should be sent over the curfew areas to deal with any curfew breakers immediately.

9) The right to citizenship just because someone happened to drop out of a womb in France should be abolished. They should have to have 2 French parents not of dual-citizenship. The right to strip someone of their citizenship for crimes should be brought back, on condition that someone has the possibility of getting citizenship somewhere else in the world.

10) Voluntary repatriation should be brought in to encourage the immigrants to return home with generous financial rewards and schemes which in the long run would still be cheaper than cleaning up after them when they decide to riot next or paying their welfare cost.

11) Citizens should be given the right to use any force they deem necessary to protect their property.

12) France should reform its economy to embrace free market economics and abandon the old style socialist policies it still retains as regards labour.

13) France should pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights and ban all asylum applications, stating that they should go to the NEAREST SAFE COUNTRY, and all France's neighbours are stable democracies, therefore unless they are from France's neighbours, they do not have a right to claim asylum there.

14) Jean Marie Le Pen should be elected the next President of the Republic, and if the rioting continues (lets hope so) there is a good chance of that.

democrat


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Will you still be cheering the rioters when they burn your car?

13.11.2005 11:35

Will you still be cheering these rioters when they burn your car and drag you out of it and beat you senseless, then leave you for dead. Will you still support them when they burn down your childrens school? Will you still support them when they stone your local firebrigade trying to put out the fires they have started? Will you still support them when they burn the bus you catch everyday? Will you still support them when throw rocks through the windows of the pub you are drinking in?

Wake up, the rioters are mindless idiots! They are in no way political or revolutionary!

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