France journey - canceled

I was going to visiting Paris December, 2 or3 days, but that fookin revolution there scares me a bit, probably Ill stay home. Yes, I will stay for sure, dont want to get some injury.

arek p. wrote: I was going to visiting Paris December, 2 or3 days, but that fookin revolution there scares me a bit, probably Ill stay home. Yes, I will stay for sure, dont want to get some injury.

Don't think yoy'll have to worry. Paris is very big, and the problems there are in the suburban (spell).

Hell airfare and hotel rates are dropping because of this. Take some cameras and a video camfor a trip out to the 'burbs. Hard Copy pays $500 USD for riot footage.

Well, I'm actually living IN Paris, and all I can tell you is that everything is perfectly normal (under control, if you prefer)… Some members of my family decided to come for an exhibition in a couple of weeks and they didn't even ask for the "situation" here…

Don't watch TV

Seriously, we've got political/social problems in France, but it's not new and I don't feel "scared" about what's happening today but "concerned"…

I'd be a little concerned with 1000 vehicles burning per night, old women getting doused with flammible liquids and set on fire as they exit a bus. Here Americans bitch that immigrants are taking the Mc Donalds jobs and meat packing jobs away from honest unemployable welfare recipients but wtf they aint rioting. There is some serious crime going on and Happy Jack better get things under control.

Don't watch TV

I'll have to remember that line the next time a European or Canadian bitches about Shrub.

arek p. wrote: I was going to visiting Paris December, 2 or3 days, but that fookin revolution there scares me a bit, probably Ill stay home. Yes, I will stay for sure, dont want to get some injury.

you are right !!! in December Paris will be surely bombed by the NATO warfare !!!

I know it is like 20km out from the city, but didn't they cancel the airport train due to the riots?

thanks Karine

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Hum ! You're welcome !!!

:D

300 cars and one school destroyed last night....

But justice is swift as one criminal was giving a sentence of 6 months for throwing a Molotov cocktail at police. (NPR this morning) 6 months for attempted murder. I thinking about moving to France.

twist wrote: 300 cars and one school destroyed last night....

But justice is swift as one criminal was giving a sentence of 6 months for throwing a Molotov cocktail at police. (NPR this morning) 6 months for attempted murder. I thinking about moving to France.

Well, I didn’t mean that nothing’s happened the last days. And, unfortunately, this is not the first time. As usual depravities are located in suburbs (well almost all of them), and they’re touching the surburbians themselves…

The media and all the “noise” around this events are just making things worse than ever… burning cars or schools has nothing to do but with stupidity and inconsequence… Still it works with the media !

Sincerely, I don’t believe that the USA are a safer place compared to France (you can see by yourself the social situation getting worse every day and the consequences, don’t you ?)

They were again recently some riots in England, if I remember well (and I’m not even talking about terrorist attack in London), nobody seemed enough scared to stop going to England !!!

In Paris itself, the situation is perfectly normal… Why should I pretend the opposite ? I might say too that I’m living in a "popular" area, so if things were getting “worse” I would know immediately… believe me !

I wish you and France luck in ending this mess. Personally I would be extremely upset at the lawlessness.

karine wrote:

They were again recently some riots in England, if I remember well (and I’m not even talking about terrorist attack in London), nobody seemed enough scared to stop going to England !!!

that was birmingham, there ain't much to see there so no ones bothered about going

riots in birmingham thats a laff,you get more agro in blackpool at the weekend than that scuffle in brum. as for the riots in france (ie immigrants kicking off cos they dont think they are getting a fair shake). this is nothing new at all,throughout history migrating people that have been getto-ised in numerous nations around the world have saught to air their greiviences by a bit of rioting now and again. only difference being that unlike the french whom are trying to control things in a civilised manner the likes of the romans just surrounded the area and then burnt it to the ground and killed anyone trying to leave.

so i find it quite bizzare that france quite a liberal nation is currently subject to this,maybe its time to crack out the gasoline.

I have just read this :

Zhirinovski has said that the riots in France were led by the American intelligence service in order to weaken European Union...

All Outta Cars

France saved by failing economy PARIS (Rooters) — The wave of Muslim youth violence that has spread across France for two weeks appeared to lose some momentum today, French police said, raising hopes that the country's worst civil unrest in almost 40 years may be starting to draw to a close.

And the reason was not the get-tough measures called for by France's hardline interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy and various conservative pundits, like aggressive policing, mass arrests, or sending in military troops. Rather, the riots seem to be petering out due to one simple fact: There aren't that many cars left to burn.

After torching hundreds, even thousands, of cars night after night, rioters are finding new ones hard to come by. "It used to be you could walk down any street and have your pick of Renaults, Peugeots, even the occaisional Fiat," said Karim Sharraf, 18, his words muffled by a black bandanna tied over his nose and mouth. "Now you have to hunt around for hours before you find anything good."

Another rioter agreed: "I'd even settle for a rusty old Deux-Cheveaux," said Ali al-Jadda, 16, aimlessly tossing an unlit molotov cocktail from hand to hand. "But there's hardly anything left."

In an afternoon press conference, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the ebbing tide of violence proves the superiority of France's economic policies.

"In America, where there are so many cars, this kind of unrest could last for months," de Villepin said. "But here in France, with our low levels of productivity and high unemployment, there just isn't that much to destroy in the first place."

De Villepin said France would act quickly to raise taxes and shorten the workweek to avoid any possibility of further riots.

I think it is a car retailers trick...

Could be a trick from the French Auto industry. or Greenpeace.