Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris in a sixth night of violence Tuesday as police clashed with angry youths and scores of vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said.This whole thing got started when two Arab teenagers attempted to hide from police in a power station and were unceremoniously fried. The fact that these crispy critters made two bad decisions - hiding from police and doing it in a power station - hasn't slowed the pro-riot crowd down at all. As is often the case in these things, people with nothing better to do and few if any moral values don't need much provocation to riot. We've seen that happen here often enough.
Police in riot gear fired rubber bullets at advancing gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois — one of the worst-hit suburbs — where 15 cars were burned, said the prefecture that runs the Seine-Saint-Denis (search) region. Youths lobbed Molotov cocktails (search) at an annex to the town hall and threw stones at the firehouse. It was not immediately clear whether there were injuries from the clashes.
Looks like the only answer now is to fly America's favorite felon, Rodney King, over there so he can stutter "C-c-c-c-an't we all just get along?". Of course, we'll have to get him out of jail to do it.
UPDATE: This crazy idea just might have worked.
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