Quote Originally Posted by Meneldil
But the people rioting now are doing it just for the fun of it.
Just young people, right? The older immigrants don't play a role in all of this, except that they lament their cars being set on fire. And Sarkozy's remark that these youngsters are all 'scum' ('racaille') did not exactly help to restore order, it seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Many youths in these quarters have been treated like scum for years, subjected to police harassment, public humiliation, etcetera. And they are not just without jobs, they are without the prospect of a job in the foreseeable future. But that is just a secundary complaint compared to the offense to their dignity of being called 'scum' on tv, and by a government minister, merely because they are of Arab origin.