Sarkozy gives Paris a Cop show again!
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Tuesday September 26, 2006 11:15
by scorchio
Last week 2 officers of the French police force were attacked while doing thier rounds in one of the sink estates that adorn every urban centre in that country. Nothing strange in that you may say. They dress like soldiers these days because they're used to being attacked. But Sarkozy saw his opportunity to highlight like no other can - the difference a poor unfashionable neighbourhood enjoys in "comunity policing".
Yesterday afternoon a force of at least 200 riot police "surgically extracted" 12 teenage suspects from the Corbeil-Essonnes / Tarterets housing estate of Paris. Somewhere buses don't go coz they were all burned last year.
Local French press talks of an un-neccesary "police spectacle", yesterday's para-military operation cost a fortune & there is a certain problem with any proper case arising from the assault on the police officers last week. Can the minister of the interior be sure that after yesterday's full scale incursion that the 12 teenagers under arrest were indeed responsible?
Or were they just the unlucky ones?
Will other police officers be safer now?
Will little mrs de vendeville feel safer buying her baguette?
Does this "operation" set an exciting new precedent? a sort of real-life cops french style? As indeed the ministry of the Interior thought to invite journalists and telly along before hand & explain to them in a press briefing that they were about to witness 220 CRS agents swat team a housing estate complete with all the usual support....
* water cannon.
* big guns.
* fire brigade.
* bigger guns.
* megaphones.
* bleeding liberals complaining about it the next day.
* small easy to carry but quite lethal guns.
* flags
* uniforms.
* a-t-t-i-t-u-d-e
* Helicopters!
To finish this - just consider little mrs de Vendeville and her baguette, will she ever count on such protection & retributive power?
Is it possible that she & all her innocent law abiding neighbours might have felt unduely intimidated as 11 teenagers were "surgically extracted"?
http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/206754.FR.php
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/
http://www.boursier.com/vals/all/operation-de-police-au...0.htm
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20060926.FAP4196...?0833
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Sarkozy promised he wouldn't run for President, but that was a long time ago. & now the polls put him just a tad ahead of sexy wonderful Segone Royale the "socialist" hopeful. This is because her "gaffes" are getting her into trouble with the serious types who bother doing polls. She says "un-presidential" things (very much ironically in a De Gaulle "Montreal speech" way) like "Quebec should be free!" and the yankees are fascists and not minding too much if Corsica is independent too.
Still makes a bit of a change since everyone was upset about her brother (an ex DGSE french equiv of MI6) being on the team that blew up the "rainbow warrior". Oh yes, her gaffes are "ok" now.
read about that here in english :-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1997112,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6290451.stm
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9b51e64c-ad78-11db-8709-0000779....html
& if you like me do really find her "c-u-t-e" here's a website in french dedicated to her "gaffes"
http://www.segolenades.com/
if you like that & you are a good contributor and obviously read french yet can write english - why not give us all a profile of Ms Royal?
But the subject of this "update" is the news that the Italian fascist Gianfranco Fini, leader of the "National front alliance" in Italy has been picked from a long list of hopefuls to preface the Italian translation of Sarkozy's book "Mein Kampf".
sorry. "obviously that should read Sarkozy's book "testimonies". They put mayonaise on their chips.
http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/politiques/232640.FR.php
The various scandals which lurk under "clearstream" and to some estimates chalked up 1.3 trillion dollar accounting errors - seemed not to touch Sarkozy. He knew very little. We recall how de Villepin was accused of bugging his office & monitoring him to ensure he knew very little. Such accusations naturally extended to Chirac whose Richeliue dauphin deVillepin wouldn't really have left out of the loop. That's not the type of person France needs in the driving seat or changing the baby's nappie. The Chirac Presidency's last card was played last year. You have your president. Now vote or not vote but don't vote for the wrong one this time. There's a lot of money to be accounted for. It's your money.
Thus is the torch passed. Now we don't all get excited and talk about nihilism, exclusion or anything like that just yet. 367 burned cars is not a record. Nor is it indicative of a pattern. We'd need more data to start seeing a pattern.
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