It's car-b-que season!
Predictable as the rising sun, "youths of a religion we cannot name" are rioting in Paris suburbs, protesting the deaths of two "youths" who were stupid enough to get themselves killed while driving recklessly on a motorcycle:
Police investigators and several eyewitnesses corroborate the patrolmen’s version of the accident. The police car was going at a normal speed, no sirens, no hot pursuit. The mini-motorcycle came down a side street at high speed and made a left turn, crashing directly into the police car. The police remained on the scene for approximately twenty to thirty minutes until the fire department ambulance arrived.
Relatives of the dead complained about the time it took for help to arrive: the bodies of the boys were left lying in a fire station for about 30 minutes. What the relatives don't mention is that the ambulance couldn't get there any faster because it had been attacked by rioting "youths." (Several Muslim areas of French, Belgian, and Dutch cities are no-go zones for public safety services, thanks to the danger of being attacked.) And the violence is spreading:
Violence is spreading from Villiers le Bel to a dozen neighboring communities. At least twenty policemen have been injured so far tonight (forty injured last night according to the latest figures), some of them critically. The insurgents are using firebombs, iron rods, baseball bats, and firing buckshot. Journalists are attacked, their cameras are stolen. The mayor of Villiers le Bel is running a crisis center from an undisclosed location. Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie is strangely absent, silent, or ineffectual. This is not the way it is supposed to be happening in the Sarkozy government. Don’t be surprised if Alliot-Marie is replaced early next year.
Cars, dumpsters, and buildings have been torched. A school gym has gone up in flames. Shop windows that weren’t smashed last night are targets tonight.
Sarkozy has a real problem on his hands. Elected on a promise to fix what ails France and fresh from a major victory over striking unions, the public remembers his promise to "clean up the scum" during the last round of "youth" rioting in 2005. Yet, away on a state visit to China, he has to watch for the moment while his Interior Minister becomes a non-entity.
This is a test for the new president: either French law rules throughout France and the elected French government truly governs, or Sarkozy is as feckless as his predecessor, and France continues its descent into dhimmitude.
LINKS: More at Gateway Pundit, LGF (and here), Blue Crab Boulevard.
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