11/05/2005

The French are NUTS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9891709/

Nine days of violent riots? Beatings? Arson? But I thought that the French were supposed to be so much more civilized...

That doesn't sound civilized at all.

The violence grows and spreads more and more each night. Rioters in different areas are communicating, warning eachother of police movements, by cell phone. People in some areas want to start militias, and the French government is starting to feel threatened. And most of it is taking place in poor suburbs around Paris--but I thought that French economic policy was too perfect to have poor...

What's in the days to come?

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