Originally Posted by MetroPornTour

This is the 5th night that cars have been burned and rioting has occured 5 minutues from my door.

What has triggered this off has been several things.
Some of them include:

1) Two adolescents were killed by electrocution when they were chased by police and cornered in an electricy sub-station. (Police are known to harras, travel in groups of 4 or more and generally "Pick on " muslims.)

2) Police fired a Gas Cannister into a mosque(sp?) without reason. (But officials are changing their stories several times over. "IE. It's a police type cannister but we have no proof it came from law enforcement.")

3) Politicians and president hopeful have publically stated, "These are youths are muslims. They need to stop saluting their false gods, become french and find real jobs. Independant entrepeneurs and satan worship is not the French way." (I attended a public rally about the riots and was shocked to hear our elected officials say these things.)

4) People refuse to rent to "non-whites" in France. Non-whites are forced to live or squat in run-down high rise buildings that are death traps.

I am sorry but this is wrong. Absolutely fucking wrong.