MASSIVE RIOTS ALL OVER FRANCE !!

Do you want to be disturbed about your fellow residents? Look at the responses to the French property damage and violence on the Yahoo News feedback forum. - 26,000 message right now. This is clearly not a representative sample of the public, and might reflect bitter people staying home on the internet on Saturday morning... however 80% of the writers are extremely racist, and seem to be discussing the oncoming 'race war' which will be a white versus muslim (and mexican-american) conflict, in which muslims will be laying roadside bombs in the heartland, and they are trading tips on which hunting rifle to use to blast people from a distance, and how to recognize bombs and expel immigrants. They use heavy IMing jargon, which seems to indicate that most of them are under age 25. Still, this is news.yahoo and not the Free Republic

Unfortunately, this has always been a country of bloodthirsty fascists who come piling out of the woodwork given the least little excuse. Hitler got all his most infamous ideas from us -- it's a FACT

We must always ask the question, who benefits?

The destruction of schools and busses sounds like a police riot. The workingclass of France have nothing to gain and everything to lose by destroying schools and busses. Only the ruling capitalist class benefits from destroying schools and busses.

The World Socialist Website, 11/5/05, as an article alleging this is now a police riot, the article being entitled :Eyewitness to Paris riots charges police with deliberate provocation" by Antoine Lerougetel
at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/fran-n05.shtml

which states in pertinent part:

"As France’s political elite vacillated between empty promises of “action” on unemployment and threats of even more severe repression, a document published on the Internet by the anti-racist site Les mots sont importants (lmsi.net—Words are Important) provides an eyewitness account of police provocation on the Chêne-Pointu housing estate. That estate, in Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb northeast of Paris, was home to the two youths whose electrocution while fleeing police October 27 set off the current wave of unrest."

"The Web document alleges that a massive police operation was deliberately designed to exacerbate the conflict with the youth on the estate after initial riots following the deaths of the two teenagers had subsided."

"The author of the account, Antoine Germa, a geography and history teacher, prefaces his account by saying, “I have been on several visits to Clichy-sous-Bois since Saturday morning to prepare a series of programmes with a France Inter radio journalist on the situation in Clichy-sous-Bois. The town has been in turmoil since Thursday 27 October.... This is what I saw, heard, understood and was told.”

"He finds implausible, in the first place, the denial, by Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s right-wing minister of the interior, that police were chasing the youth. “Why [would the youths] go into that alley and climb a fence to hide in an EDF [state electricity company] transformer when their estate was close by?” he asks."

"That night and the following night saw fierce rioting and battles with the heavily equipped CRS riot police."

"However, on October 30, the day of a silent march in commemoration of the tragic deaths of Zyad Benna and Bouna Traore, mobilised by Muslim groups and the local mosque, “everything seemed calm throughout the day and the forces of the law kept out of sight.”"

:German continues: “On Saturday night, at the end of the fast [of Ramadan], at about 6:30 p.m., 400 CRS and gendarmes came...in cohorts like the Roman legions, at a run, visors down, shields on their arms and rubber and plastic bullet guns in their hands, they went through each street against an invisible enemy. At this time, everyone is eating and nobody is outside. Why this demonstration of force when the streets were particularly calm? ‘Police provocation,’ reply as one the local people.”"

"The teacher’s account continues: “After an hour, a few youth emerge and face up to the police, everyone waiting for the confrontation to start. What sense can we give to this police strategy except the wish to ‘mark their territory,’ that is to say, to apply an animal and brute version of the return to ‘republican order.’ ” However, Antoine Germa considers that Saturday night was less violent than the two previous nights and that it took an attack on a mosque with tear gas at 9 p.m. Sunday night, for which crime police are the prime suspects, to really relaunch the rioting."