Second Round of Riots Begins in France
Posted on March 18, 2006
Cross-posted from Right on the Right:
The Insurgency in France Coverage:
New riots have erupted in France, with the Muslim minority spear-heading the charge. While these riots haven’t reached the level of damage or violence seen before, FOX News just showed pictures of several cars burning. Is this the beginning of a new string of riots that will only escalate racial violence and Islamic radicalism in France?
HUGE PROTESTS AGAINST FRENCH LAW; SOME VIOLENCE
PARIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of students, workers and left-wing politicians took to the streets across France on Saturday to press the conservative government to scrap a new law they fear will erode job security.
Pleased with the turnout, student and trade union leaders said President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin “bear full responsibility for these social tensions” and agreed to meet on Monday to consider further action.
The marches were mostly festive and peaceful, but dozens of youths pelted police with missiles, overturning and setting fire to a car at the end of the main protest in Paris. Police fired many rounds of tear gas to clear them from Nation square.
Scattered violence was also reported in Marseille, Rennes and Lille, where police also charged and teargassed crowds.
The law in question gives more companies the power to break socialism and fire workers that aren’t doing their job. The Muslim minority is afraid this will lead to increased discrimination. Once again, they’re taking to the streets and starting trouble. I don’t know if these riots will lead to the mass car-burnings and confrontations like the last series of riots, but escalation is likely. Will people die like last time? Tensions are continuing to build in France it seems, with many muslim teens looking towards radicalism. This may be round two of the insurgency in France.
Expose the Left has a video of this.
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I am not sure if this is a Eurabia issue as it is a case of unions v. a “conservative” Government. Mind you a French conservative government is still a liberal government.