Cohn-Bendit was more than angry last time Sarkozy spoke.
Our beloved national muscle boy will preside Europe for 6 months, and he came to say hello in Strasbourg (or is it Bruxelles?), gave Europe a nice lecture filled with contradictions; that's what made DCB go mad.
What Sarkozy said can't be recalled, as I assume it was 100% nice and consensual. At the same time, it was in contradiction with what he's doing : making deals with Kadahfi; patting Africa on the head in Dakar "the African man is a man whose mind is set on the past, he hasn't entered the picture of modern times"; going to have a little dinner with the corpse of Bush saying nothing about Guantanamo or Irak but talking about his love for Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne - modern times, all these postcards are dead.
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Originally Posted by racehorse
apparently 70 buildings and cars have been burnt down,, including a library and two schools.
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70 buildings and cars?
There have been cars and trash cans, that's sure.
As far as buildings are concerned, there has been some destruction, but what our media tell (a media whose executives are close friends to the tallest president that ever lived on the face of Earth), is that a library, a school, a garage were burnt, and two police precincts got nearly the same treatment; add to that a drugstore being robbed and few other shops.
That's enough and pretty sad.
The riot took place in a restricted area, I mean it hasn't spread across the nation. It hit the city the accident occured in, and its immediate neighbours (3-4 towns connected to one another - by this I mean when you leave one, you don't feel it, there's nothing in between, no forest, you walk down the street, next step you're in a different city).
So :
We have two dead teenagers.
We have the destruction of a school, a library.
We have police forces who were shot at (it hadn't happened two years ago).
We have the power 100% sure the police were not responsible.
We have a president whose first thought, whose first speach was for the police deputy who had been injured.
Nothing about the school, the library, the garage yet.
Nothing about the investigation on the accident (many people don't believe the police car was driving at a regular speed, seeing the impact on its left; many people find it also odd that the motorbike and its fork look intact when it has slided on nearly 35 meters) yet.
Things have been quieter last night.
Probably because it took place in a city where poverty isn't as high as its neighbour towns, and probably because they put 1000 CRS.
The CRS are police forces that were created way before the birth of the internet for times of crisis and to prevent violence among demonstrations; and you've got to know, fellow Australian reader, cheerful Oklahoma truant, that Sarkozy kicked the regular police out of these places 5 years ago, when he was a minister, to replace these regular forces who could look like human beings by these CRS who are trained to offer the most frightening face to whoever they meet.
Add to that that controls in the ghetto towns are high. Police check your identity, in order to spot foreigners to expell from France. You see, we have to get rid of a certain amount of ugly foreigners every year. 250 000 is that? Or 25 000? I can't recall.
Recently, a former French police worker, a French citizen nearly got expelled to Morocco on her flight back to France. The poor woman is black. She's had a child recently, and her body still has the marks of bearing a child. When she handed her passport at the airport, the French guy there said : it ain't you on the picture, it's a fake, we're not letting you in. She had to prove who she was, and her time within the French police forces were helpful, as she knew what was supposed to be done. And there was a gap between what's supposed to be done and the way they treated her rights.
But that's off topic.
We shall remain focused on a spot of the picture.