November 12, 2005
PUTTING THE "A" IN DENIAL:
Riot erupts in French city centre (BBC, 11/12/05)
Police in the French city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin.Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2005 5:14 PMPolice on the city's famous Place Bellecour square made two arrests in what state news agency AFP says is the first rioting in a major city centre. [...]
Officials in Lyon and 10 other towns to the east of the city earlier announced a curfew to bar unaccompanied minors from the streets over the weekend between 2200 and 0600 local time.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy blamed the Lyon violence on a "demonstration by anarchists" without elaborating.
What is a bin?
Posted by: Earl Sutherland at November 12, 2005 6:15 PMMaybe he really said "Allah-ists"...
Posted by: b at November 12, 2005 6:25 PMTrash can. Or a dumpster if they've learned to coordinate.
Posted by: joe shropshire at November 12, 2005 6:30 PMSounds like Sarkozy is stuck on about 1919.
Of course, they are anarchists, but they are also a bit more, eh? And France herself is a bit less.
Posted by: jim hamlen at November 13, 2005 12:26 AMThey need to put a stop to this the way we did at Kent State.
Posted by: Lou Gots at November 13, 2005 6:31 AMLetting the situation smolder is the
strategy. It is plain to see. It will make
the solution much more bearable in the end.