November 17, 2005

The French Accumulation: Some Riot Totals, and What “Normalcy” Is

Filed under: Economy, Immigration, Taxes & Government — TBlumer @ 4:02 pm

Now we learn what “calmed down” means in France (bolds are mine):

126 police injured since beginning of riots

PARIS, Nov 16 (AFP) - France’s national police service said Wednesday that 126 officers have been injured since urban unrest first flared nearly three weeks ago.

A total of 2,888 people have been arrested since the violence started October 27, and 8,973 vehicles have been destroyed by arson, it said.

Tuesday night showed another decline in the level of the violence, with 163 vehicles being torched and 50 people arrested across the country — effectively down to pre-riot levels.

The police service said 27 vehicles were destroyed in the Paris area (compared to 60 overnight Monday) and 136 elsewhere in France.

….. In all, 11,200 police have been deployed to rein in the unrest, backed up, in a few cases, by curfews on minors. Overnight Tuesday saw just one officer injured, during the arrest of a group of people throwing bottles of acid.

163 vehicles torched and acid bottles thrown at police–all in a night’s work in France.

Don’t forget these things down the road when, as I expect, the lectures from overseas about America’s “runaway crime” resume.

Willisms has plenty of solid data on how school violence in the US, and violent crime in general, especially crimes against African-Americans, have fallen.
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Nov. 18 Update: “Only” 98 vehicles were torched nationwide on Wednesday night. Police say they are “back to normal.”

2 Comments

  1. About Civil War in France, these 4 texts :

    Bellum civile 1 (Civil War in Paris)

    Bellum civile 2 (Civil War in France)

    Le temps des kaïra (Time of the “Kaira”)

    Notre société a généré un monstre (The monster inside) :

    Bellum civile 3 (Martial Law in France)

    Comment by Stalker — November 18, 2005 @ 5:09 am

  2. #1 the stories are in French, BUT the pictures don’t need translation, so i let the comment through. I put the links inside text. because the long URLs change page width.

    Comment by TBlumer — November 18, 2005 @ 8:44 am

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