French authorities responded to intercepted emails and text messages warning against massive riots in Paris with a massive police presence accompanied by a curfew and ban on "all meetings likely to start or fuel disorder." But Paris was relatively quiet, as serious unrest erupted in Lyon and Toulouse.
The worst suburban unrest on Friday night was reported in Lyon and the city of Toulouse in the south-west.
More than 500 cars were set on fire, two police officers were wounded and 206 people were detained across the country.
This was an increase on the previous night, when about 400 vehicles were torched and 168 people were arrested.
I hope the 2,000 extra police officers called in to protect Paris weren't supposed to protect these cities.
The riots continues tonight, for the 16th night in a row.
Young thugs continued to wrec havoc across France. A children's school in Savigny-Le-Temple ourside Paris was attacked, a kindergarten was destroyed, and an electricity supply station was destroyed in Armiens, darkening the whole nothern part of the city.
Meanwhile, I heard on Norwegian radio that the far-left groups in Oslo centred on the "culture-center" Blitz were demonstrating in support of the French rioters. Somebody should tell them that the US right is also, if not celebrating, at least failing to restrain their glee over the French misery.
At the same time, molotov cocktails were thrown at a French mosque in an apparent "retaliatory" attack from another fraction of thugs, widely reported in Islamic media.
An unidentified attacker has thrown two firebombs into a mosque in southern France, in an attack that was condemned by the French president and prime minister.
The attack on the mosque in Carpentras occurred on Friday and caused only minor damage, the Vaucluse regional government said in a statement. No one was injured.
If we applied the standard line in the leftist media, we would point out that these, probably white youths, maybe skinheads, had a troubled childhood and suffer unemployment. Of course the media will show such no understanding towards troubled white youths attracted to extremist far right ideology through, maybe, personal misery. Not that I for a moment suggest they should! So why should thugs and vandals be excused when they are immigrants (of second or third generation), Muslim or dark-skinned? This form of discrimination, a tyranny of low expectations, seems to imply that immigrants don't deserve to be treated like responsible adults. There are certainly enough hard-working, honest and decent immigrants from all parts of the world across Europe showing that this popular condenscation is misplaced and counter-productive.
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