France’s own riot has some parallel with our own L.A. riot that occurred in 1992 that resulted in over 150 fires raged in the city of Los Angeles. Some 53 deaths were reported as well as over 1200 injured, and more than 3000 arrested
Although no deaths were reported so far as a result of the ongoing rioting but injuries continue to mount. Some of them were horrific in nature caused by Muslim thugs preying on disabled people.
Just like the LA riot, the rioting didn’t end and stop where it originated. It went beyond the boundary of the city.
As the senseless violence reached it's peak in Los Angeles on Thursday night, reports began to be received that it had spread to other cities and states across the country.Muslim men and youths in France no longer have a “master” (ie. Imam) to report to when violence and gang life are a part of their lives. They lived wherever they wished among the large concentrated Muslim parts of French towns. These “masterless” Muslim men and boys join Muslim gangs as a source of their distraction from years of being ignored by the French government offering them no hope. They use their violence on other people, including the raping of young Muslim girls.
1. In Northern California, 1,400 people were arrested in San Francisco as rioting engulfed the city's downtown area. A State of Emergency was declared there and a curfew established.
2. In Los Vegas, a mob of two-hundred (200) people went on a rampage, setting fires, and engaged in sniper fire and drive-by shootings. Local law enforcement officials admitted that they were overwhelmed and requested the activation of the Nevada National Guard. The Governor complied and control has reportedly been somewhat re- established. Reports were received of several arson fires.
(3.) Seattle was struck by mobs of 50-100 people, who randomly broke windows and and looted numerous cars in downtown Seattle during the night Thursday and early Friday. Police say that forty-five (45) people were arrested and five (5) injuried during the violent spree. Firefighters responded to twenty-eight (28) fire calls during the unrest, including five (5) buildings that were termed "suspicious in nature".
(4.) Further East, Black protestors in New York City reportedly pulled two white men from a truck, stabbed one and beat the other. An estimated two-hundred (200) protestors attacked the doors at Madison Square Gardens causing injuries and property damage. Another crowd of four-hundred (400) black youths reportedly stormed a popular shopping mall and smashed windows and stole merchandise. Shops and businesses were damaged as the "melee" traveled over several blocks. As many as eighty (80) arrests were made and several police officers injuried. Many NYC employers were said to have released workers from work early to avoid further occurrences.
(5.) Police in Atlanta, GA were confronted on Friday, by hundreds of black protestors. This followed a night of three-hundred (300) arrests and fifty-seven (57) injuries. It also prompted the use of teargas and a call for the Georgia National Guard to help combat large crowds of people looting and throwing rocks and bricks. Mayor Maynard Jackson called for calm and understanding, as he counseled college students that had originally begun peaceful protests which escalated into wide-spread violence.
Sporadic acts of violence, arson, and property damage were also associated with the Los Angeles Riots in such cities as Tampa, FL, Pittsburg, PA, Birmingham, MS, Omaha, NE, and several other locations.
Currently, 6 million people of Muslim descent are living in France. cBS explains more on what caused the volatility in France’s riot:
Crux of the Problem: It is currently estimated that 40 percent of the French population descends from these different waves of migrations, making France the most ethnically diverse country in Europe. Nevertheless, the immigrants from other European countries have had an easier time blending in (race and religion being key), while the "non-European" groups have tended to assimilate at a slower pace.One thing tho, the United States does not have a “housing shortage.” The rest of the world might, but not the United States. We're not that dire as CBS would like for you to believe. And also what cBS doesn't tell you is that French police do not go in any of the 4 subburbs (small nearby "cities") out of 20 subburbs of Paris where Muslim crimes are mostly intense. The cops never go into these areas to stop any of the crime for years. No wonder these Muslim gangs go unopposed in their daily crime sprees.
Difficult Integration: Because of the difficulty integrating into French society, many young males of African and Arab descent work for the lowest wages and often live in ghettos where crime is rampant.
"Western Europe society has not managed to integrate second- or third-generation immigrants," said Scott Atran, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.
France has a chronic problem of not knowing how to shrug off the "ossified economic and political structure" that rules the country, he added.
Religion: Roman Catholic - 83 to 88 percent; Protestant - 2 percent; Jewish - 1 percent ; Muslim - 5 to 10 percent.
Unemployment rate: 10.1 percent.
Unemployment in the Paris "immigrant ghettos": 20 to 40 percent, according to varying sources.
Riots: The unrest began after two North-African youths, Bouna Traore, aged 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were accidentally electrocuted at an electricity sub-station in Clichy-sous-Bois. Protesting by burning cars is not uncommon in the immigrant-populated suburbs, but this marks the worst civil disobedience in the last decade.
Rioters: Bands of 10 to 15 youths, some as young as 12 years old.
Riot Epicenter: Seine-Saint-Denis is northeast of Paris identified as the "93 departement." Hot zones within the departement include Aulnay-sous-Bois, Clichy-sous-Bois, Bobigny, La Courneuve.
Copycat Riots: The rock-throwing, torching of cars and other acts of vandalism have spread to other immigrant ghettos in the ring around Paris but have not yet occurred in the city's center.
Protesters have used the internet to get other cities to join the fight, with the ultimate goal of making the evening newscast, according to French newspaper, Le Figaro. There has been mild trouble reported in other cities, including Marseilles, Dijon and Perpignan.
Policing: A lot of these "ghetto" suburbs lack security and policing. Gangs, running the suburbs, have slowly pushed out police presence. In Seine-Saint-Denis, security personnel have fallen from 468 in 2000 to 205 now, according to Le Monde.
Housing Shortage: As in many cities around the world, Paris rents have gone through the roof. As a result, many people have been forced to move out or shack up in dilapitated buildings. Last year more than 100,000 people competed for 12,000 available subsidized housing units in Paris, according to official figures. Among the hardest-hit without housing are immigrants (legal and illegal.) The three back-to-back Paris fires over the spring and summer, which killed many children, occurred in such rundown buildings.
Political Backdrop: A week before the riots began, the interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed a "merciless war" on suburban violence, and when the troubles started, he called the rioters "hoodlums." The rioting has become embroiled in the political succession war on the right between the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and Sarkozy, ahead of the 2007 presidential elections.
And what of France’s unemployment rate of 10.1 percent?:
France's generous jobless benefits, about three times those of the US and Britain, help explain its 10.1 per cent unemployment rate — double the rates in those countries. The benefits are among a set of labour policies that may pose the biggest obstacle to President Jacques Chirac's efforts to rekindle the economy and restore his tattered popularity.
This is where France's own grand socialism experiment begins to tear and tatter under the strain of Muslim immigrants wanting a better life. The French government ignored them for decades. So what France is looking at is their own descent into hell and realizing that it has now just begun.
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