I almost titled this “French Police grow a pair” but that would be untrue. They have stepped up there game and I’ll give them credit for that. Now let’s see if they go a step further and prosecute and jail some of these thugs.
France suffered through enough Muslim riots to last then a while, time so smack mohammed back down a bit.
February 18, 2008 (AP)
VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France: More than 1,000 police, some wearing black hoods, raided housing projects outside Paris in a massive sweep Monday, kicking open doors and detaining 35 people in a search for rioters who led an outburst of violence last year, a prosecutor said.
Critics called the early morning operation, captured on television cameras, a “security spectacle” aimed at bolstering President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of municipal elections next month. Sarkozy recently vowed to better police the neglected neighborhoods, populated largely by families of immigrant background, that exploded in nationwide riots in 2005.
-Critics??? Thousands of burning cars, buildings and attacks on people was better? Arrest the damn critics take them to a Muslim enclave and release them.
Riot police and other officers were mobilized for Monday’s raids in Villiers-le-Bel and in the neighboring towns of Sarcelles, Gonesse and Arnouville as part of the investigation into a flare-up of violence there in November, police said.
Preparing for possible violence by youths in reaction to the early raids, authorities ordered some 450 police to spend Monday evening in Villiers-le-Bel, police officials said.
-Well the Muslims are always harping on about backlash.
Regional state prosecutor Marie-Therese de Givry said 35 people were arrested. Hours-to-house searches followed the raids for several hours, she told reporters in Pontoise, in the Val d’Oise region where the targeted suburbs are located.
Most of those detained, aged 19 to 31, had been known to police, mainly for previous violence, according to police. Delinquents and drug traffickers may be among those arrested. The prosecutor said one suspect had 7,400 (US$10,855) in his jacket pocket.
-Maybe he was going to buy a new lighter. (more…)
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