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Whoa. France is going crazy.
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
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The violence started Oct. 27 among youths in a northeastern Paris suburb angry over the accidental deaths of two teenagers but has grown into a nationwide insurrection.
The mayhem is forcing France to confront anger building for decades in neglected suburbs and among the French-born children of Arab and black African immigrants. The teenagers whose deaths sparked the rioting were of Mauritanian and Tunisian descent. They were electrocuted as they hid from police in a power substation, apparently thinking they were being chased.
Holy shit. There has been a riot spreading through an entire country for TEN DAYS and I am just now aware of this? I know I don't pay attention to the news, other than what I get from my friendslist and the front pages of newpapers, but shouldn't I have heard of this before now? Why is Yahoo!News the only place I've seen it mentioned? Shouldn't this be a bigger story? Oh, no, wait. It's in France. Nobody cares about France. My bad.
Seriously, though, read the article. This is looking like it could get pretty bad - there's only been one death so far, but who knows what could happen if the authorities can't get it under control?
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
[. . .]
The violence started Oct. 27 among youths in a northeastern Paris suburb angry over the accidental deaths of two teenagers but has grown into a nationwide insurrection.
The mayhem is forcing France to confront anger building for decades in neglected suburbs and among the French-born children of Arab and black African immigrants. The teenagers whose deaths sparked the rioting were of Mauritanian and Tunisian descent. They were electrocuted as they hid from police in a power substation, apparently thinking they were being chased.
Holy shit. There has been a riot spreading through an entire country for TEN DAYS and I am just now aware of this? I know I don't pay attention to the news, other than what I get from my friendslist and the front pages of newpapers, but shouldn't I have heard of this before now? Why is Yahoo!News the only place I've seen it mentioned? Shouldn't this be a bigger story? Oh, no, wait. It's in France. Nobody cares about France. My bad.
Seriously, though, read the article. This is looking like it could get pretty bad - there's only been one death so far, but who knows what could happen if the authorities can't get it under control?
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