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Originally posted by 400m:
Balzé I wish you and your family safety while this is going on.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:

Balze, hope you and your family can stay safe.
Rod

I appreciate that. They will be fine. They are mostly in the country and on the Brittany beaches. Hopefully the airports aren't affected when it comes time for me to travel over there.

So how did the guys in the first video get AK’s?

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Originally posted by PASig:
Import the Third World then act shocked when you become a Third World country…

Well said ..

2005 France riots all over again.
Just like before, some youths of a foreign background, get caught doing some criminal mischief, gets the attention of authorities, 'resistance' happens, death occurs, riots kick-off.

These low-income, ethnic enclaves, slums, are on the outskirts of the major metro-areas. Unlike in the US, European cities are the haven of the wealthy and well-to-do, while the suburbs or, the banlieues are where the projects are, public housing zones. Usually they're next to airports, rail yards, warehouse areas, sea ports, along major freeways.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
Macron did his best to pour gas on the fire too, while prejudging the investigation. He's blaming the cops, saying what they did wasn't justified.

I've heard of this before....

We are headed there as fast as our broken media and progressive politicians can paddle.

Looks like Minneapolis...

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
Macron did his best to pour gas on the fire too, while prejudging the investigation. He's blaming the cops, saying what they did wasn't justified.

The media, as usual, merely says the "victim" failed to comply. A bit of an understatement.

And Macron is going to say if the "victim" had more support from everyone, the response wouldn't have happened.

Diversity is their strength, Dawg.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
So how did the guys in the first video get AK’s?

Carryon luggage via mideast airlines.

Didn't save link, but this morning saw video from there of someone having stolen a bus and hauling ass down the streets. I mean HAULING, straight through some fire, other debris and I'm sure eventually humans.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
So how did the guys in the first video get AK’s?

Fell off a truck in Marseille.

In all seriousness, Marseille for a time '50-80's was the hot-bed of arms sales. France was involved with a number coups in Africa, along with all the trade coming out of Africa into Europe, arms smuggling was big business, and Marseille was the crossroads. Since the 90's arms coming out of the Balkans have proliferated throughout the European black-market.

Has the French Government surrendered yet?

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Originally posted by 1s1k:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Why don’t the French simply take up their constitutionally protected arms and do what should be done?

Oh. right.

Even without guns they are showing more fight about immigration and increasing the working age than Americans have. We’re talking about the French populace having more gumption than the American public which is unbelievably sad.

What you have to take into consideration is the riots in the US were without exception coordinated by leftist globalist garbage in sanctioned democRAT strongholds. Things might go a little differently if they choose their targets… unwisely.

Numerous twitter videos at link.

France Deploys 'Armored Military Vehicles' To Combat Nationwide Riots

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...preading-third-night

There are reports of "Tactical units driving through the streets of Marseille."

French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said overnight chaos has resulted in 2,000 cars burned, 500 buildings damaged, hundreds of businesses looted, and violent clashes with police. He said over 800 people were arrested, with nearly 250 officers injured.

Earlier, Macron blamed social media for fueling 'copycat violence,' and said state agencies would ask Twitter, Snapchat, and Tiktok to ban the most "sensitive content."

Riots and vandalism continued throughout the day Friday. Darmanin said buses and trams would be shut down by 9 pm local time nationwide to suppress the overnight unrest.

France has a lot of problems with its sizable immigrant communities and post-colonial activities.
They exist in a parallel world, while welcomed for their low-cost labor and checking all sorts of feel-good humanitarian boxes, there's not a lot of civil rights protections. Discrimination and shaming for not 'speaking French or, acting French' is pretty common, plenty of cultural points of friction. What happens when a country takes-in a population but, that population doesn't assimilate very well or, not at all?

The Dutch had to deal with this during the 1970's as South Moluccan youths (Indonesian) terrorized the Netherlands with shootings on trains, taking hostage taking and taking over the Indonesian embassy.

Macron is now blaming social media and video game....good grief. We know social media fans the flames but, video games? Marie Le Pen has to be rubbing her hands waiting to pounce as the country goes through nearly a week of Floyd-type stupidity.

The legacy of slavery is a bitch, oh wait...

France has lost its collective mind, and it’s just going to get worse for a while.

The riots and violence are reaching new levels, one that requires a near-authoritarian crackdown to stop before they get an Arab spring of their own. The French police, who are solid men and women might not have the resources to stuff this genie back into its lamp. It may take deploying the Army.



Blaze… if it were my wife and kids, I’d extract them via the ferry to Spain or the UK and a big bird home, and I wouldn’t wait.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

Blaze… if it were my wife and kids, I’d extract them via the ferry to Spain or the UK and a big bird home, and I wouldn’t wait.

They're with the in-laws. I'm not overly concerned at the moment.

The Tour de France starts today. I wonder how the current riots will affect the race. Well, we shall see. As it were though, the race spends the first few days in Spain.

France protests: nearly 1,000 arrested as riots surge in Marseille and Lyon

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...n-marseille-and-lyon


France protests: nearly 1,000 arrested as riots surge in Marseille and Lyon
Fourth night of demonstrations sees 45,000 police deployed as authorities claim the situation is calmer

French riots – latest updates
Jonathan Yerushalmy and agencies
Sat 1 Jul 2023 06.35 EDT
More than 1,300 people were arrested in a fourth night of violence in France after the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy.

Forty-five thousand police officers, including special forces, were deployed to respond to rioting across the country on Friday night, with the situation in two big cities – Marseille and Lyon – highlighted as particularly chaotic, with buildings and vehicles torched and stores looted.

The ministry of the interior reported 1,311 people were arrested overnight, while 79 police officers and gendarmes were injured and 2,500 fires were recorded.

The unrest flared nationwide after Nahel M, a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent, was shot by police on Tuesday during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. His death, caught on video, has reignited longstanding complaints of police violence and racism.

The 38-year-old officer involved in the shooting, who has said he fired the shot because he feared he and his colleague or someone else could be hit by the car, has been charged with voluntary homicide and placed in provisional detention.

The funeral ceremony for Nahel began on Saturday with a visitation, and will be followed by a mosque ceremony and burial in a cemetery in Nanterre.

The ministry said the protests were “of a lower intensity compared with the previous night”.



From another website is the video of the shooting that sparked it all.

This is the mother of the 'victim'. Looks distraught don't she?