Riots in Paris

[Nikolai]

I've read that one possible reason the police left the place of the accident was because of how police is treated in the area. A police chief that came to the place of the accident was attacked and got hurt in the face.

And witnesses the media has spoken to has told that the motor bike the youths stole was moving way too fast and that the police car had no chance to avoid hitting it.

I just hope the situation doesn't detoriate the way the last intifada in Paris did...

[DinoDoc]

Wait a sec. The youths stole the bike, were going too fast, and the police had little if any time to avoid the collision. What are they burning their houses down for?

[LordShiva]

Spiffor

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Wait a sec. The youths stole the bike, were going too fast, and the police had little if any time to avoid the collision. What are they burning their houses down for?

Well, that's the big question, isn't it?

[onodera]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Hey, onodera, what flag are you flying?

The flag of my country of course. Immigration-intolerant and Islamophobic Europe is good for Russia. But even if that wasn't the case, I'd still support French police, not some racist* immigrants.

*if you gang up and begin rioting without finding out who's right and who's wrong just because one side shares the race with you, you're racist.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Wait a sec. The youths stole the bike, were going too fast, and the police had little if any time to avoid the collision. What are they burning their houses down for?

This guy told them to do it.

One in the right, yellow dress.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Germany started building modernist public housing projects back when its poor were "ethnic Germans" and if the Turks are packed in suburban isolation in modernist public housing like in France (I dont know) presumably at least they dont see the whole thing as a conspiracy against brown immigrants, as the French immigrants do.

They don't live in Banlieue style areas, though dominantly Turkish parts in Berlin for example are often social hotspots too with the usual problems like crime, youth gangs, unemployment (though these probs are not unknown in "ethnic German" neighborhoods either). What doesn't seem to exist here is the radical "us vs. the state" mentality I get from reports from Paris. Not sure about the reasons for that.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Wait a sec. The youths stole the bike, were going too fast, and the police had little if any time to avoid the collision. What are they burning their houses down for?

From the opening article:

...Angry residents said the police left the scene of Sunday's crash without helping the two teenagers whose moped had collided with their car. ...

I don't know about France, but if a driver in the U.S. leaves the scene of an accident where there's an injury, that's a felony.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
From the opening article:

Originally posted by Nikolai
I've read that one possible reason the police left the place of the accident was because of how police is treated in the area. A police chief that came to the place of the accident was attacked and got hurt in the face.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by BeBro


They don't live in Banlieue style areas, though dominantly Turkish parts in Berlin for example are often social hotspots too with the usual problems like crime, youth gangs, unemployment (though these probs are not unknown in "ethnic German" neighborhoods either). What doesn't seem to exist here is the radical "us vs. the state" mentality I get from reports from Paris. Not sure about the reasons for that.

Don't Turks pretty much hate anyone and anything that's not Turkish?

[Zkribbler]

Gee, instead of fleeing the scene, they might have called for backup.

(BTW: The police action does not justify the populous's resorting to rioting, shooting at the police, etc. )

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I never really understood burning and destroying your neighborhood as a political statement. (I'm mad as hell and I'm going to burn down my home!) Go destroy another neighborhood if you want to make a political point.

Well, that's always been the view of the American army.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Gee, instead of fleeing the scene, they might have called for backup.

We're talking about an area that doesn't have a real police force. Otherwise No-Go areas wouldn't have been accepted as readily.

Well, that's always been the view of the American army.

Exactly. We found out burning your house down kills all the fun during the Civil War.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Gee, instead of fleeing the scene, they might have called for backup.

(BTW: The police action does not justify the populous's resorting to rioting, shooting at the police, etc. )

According to the article, they did call for emergency services...

[Wezil]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Exactly. We found out burning your house down kills all the fun during the Civil War.