What did you all see on TV, guys? Trench war? It's just riots... Bricks vs flashball. Molotovs vs lacrymo. A "badly wounded" french cop usually has a broken nail. A "strongly organised party" of rioters is a bunch of "angry" kids with clubs for mass destruction weapons. There are almost no firearms in the french suburbs, and even less ammunition. What I mean is that you can get a gun quite easily in those places but 1-it will be an old rusted one and 2-with three bullets and 3-very expensive (say 1000 euros). The result is that guns are used for three things: vendetta, accidents, and suicides.
Pillage and looting? Who cares? That's evil but insurance companies in France are stinking rich and won't refuse if Sarko asks them to pay back those "poor courageous french victims". And he WILL ask them, be sure about it.
There won't be any true explosion, I bet. And if someone dies of gunfire (that's unlikely), everyone will go back home and think a bit (not enough, alas).
An honnest investigation on the accident is to be done. The kids were completely outlaw, that's not questionnable. But we have a little problem in France. Every single investigation involving police officers is closed before beginning. "The men did what they had to do, everything's fine, thank you, and goodbye". And it's always the same for twenty years at least. And the darker the skin of the victim is, the faster the cop's innocence is stated. That is what those rioters have in mind. That and a true desire for pillage and action (you can't imagine how life is boring when you are a poor kid with an almost hardcoded brutal future living in a dull place full of people like you).
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