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On 22 Sep 2021, Rudy Canoza <
js@phendrie.con> posted some news:gzK2J.69268$
VZ1.50772@fx08.iad:
You don't seriously expect zoo animals to have the intelligence to
understand what they are doing is wrong, do you? You're the ones who
let these uncivilized creatures into your country.
Rioters rammed a car into the home of a mayor in southern Paris before
setting it on fire while his wife and children were sleeping.
Protesters chased Melanie Nowak and her two children behind the house
and into the garden as the family tried to escape, in the latest example
of fierce violence gripping France.
The mother suffered a serious leg fracture after trying to push her
children over the wall that separates her garden from her neighbour’s
backyard and was recovering in hospital on Sunday morning. One of the
children was also injured.
Vincent Jeanbrun, the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a suburb south of Paris,
said the attack on his family was an “assassination attempt”.
“Last night, a milestone was reached in horror and ignominy,” said Mr
Jeanbrun, who is also the spokesman for the conservative Republican
party.
The incident took place on the fifth night of nationwide unrest, as
France witnessed more vandalism, pillaging, fires and clashes with
police.
The country has been rocked by riots after the police killing of Nahel
Merbouz, 17, a French teenager of North African descent last week, who
was shot at point blank range during a traffic stop.
Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister, on Sunday praised authorities
for their “resolute action” which had led to a “calmer night”.
On Saturday evening, police made 719 arrests throughout France, compared
to 1,311 arrests made the night before.
Mr Darmanin promised justice for Mr Jeanbrun and his family, “victims of
a cowardly and terrible attack”.
“An investigation for attempted murder has been opened and significant resources of the judicial police are mobilised. The perpetrators of
these facts will answer for their heinous acts,” he tweeted.
The attack happened at 1.30am on Sunday morning. Mr Jeanbrun said that
rioters launched a car through the front of his home and set it alight
while his wife and two young daughters aged five and seven were
sleeping. They attackers also set the family car aflame, and fired
mortar fireworks against the mother and children as they tried to flee.
The mayor was working at the town hall at the time.
The local prosecutor said a plastic bottle was also uncovered at the
scene filled with a fire accelerant. Police have launched an
investigation into attempted murder.
“Given the gravity of the situation, the prosecutor’s office has chosen
to qualify this act as an assassination attempt and everything will be
done to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” said Stephane
Hardoin in L’Haÿ-les-Roses.
Élisabeth Borne, the French prime minister, spoke out against the
attack, condemning the “intolerable incident” and promising that “the
culprits will be prosecuted with the greatest firmness”.
Protesters, mostly minors, have torched cars, damaged infrastructure and clashed with police in an outpouring of rage since an officer shot
Nahel. A Holocaust memorial in Nanterre, The Memorial to the Martyrs of
the Deportation and the Resistance, was also defaced with anti-police
slogans during widespread riots last week.
Around 7,000 officers will be deployed again across Ile-de-France Sunday
night, and trams and buses will again stop running as of 9pm.
The killing was captured on video, which spread on social media and
fuelled anger over police violence against minorities, exposing severe
racial tensions in France.
‘We want things to calm down’
On Sunday, the victim’s grandmother spoke out against the escalation of violence and appealed for calm.
“The people who are rioting, I’m telling them, ‘stop,’” she said in an interview with French TV.
“They’re using Nahel as a pretext. Stop smashing the windows, the buses,
the schools. We want to calm things down. We don’t want them to destroy
things, we want them to stay calm, these people.”
The grandmother also expressed her indignation at the fundraising
campaign in support of the police officer’s family, which has so far
raised nearly £429,000.
“My heart hurts. But he will be punished like everyone else. I trust in justice.”
Laurent Nuñez, the Paris police chief, warned it would be premature to
say that the riots are on the decline.
“For the moment, we can’t talk about a decline, I don’t think it would
be reasonable,” he told BFMTV.
“We have to be extremely careful. We will continue to be very present.”
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, postponed a state visit to
Germany that was set to begin on Sunday, holding a special security
meeting with members of his government on Sunday night.
After the meeting, an official who was present said Mr Macron had asked authorities to “continue to do everything to restore order and guarantee
a return to calm”, French media reported.
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, said that Germany was watching the
unrest in France “with concern”.
“I don’t expect that France will become unstable, even if the images of
course are very distressing,” Mr Scholz said.
Patrick
9 hours ago
The predictable result of tolerating and encouraging violence from the “aggrieved minorities”. Not arresting and prosecuting people that commit violent crimes leads to more violent crimes. We are well down that path
here.
https://news.yahoo.com/rioters-france-ram-car-mayors-113405472.html
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