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| Just 20 minutes from Paris, it's war |
| 11.04.05 (1:18 pm) [edit] |
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Emma-Kate Symons meets locals at the flashpoint of Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris November 05, 2005 "THIS is a war." It is late in the evening marking the end of Ramadan when 13-year-old Souhail, a French Muslim of Moroccan origin, makes his bellicose declaration. On a residential street crowded with onlookers, we are trying to shield ourselves from the blaze and foul smell of another car set alight in the outer Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Nearby BeurgerKing Muslim is doing a brisk trade in Halal fast food and mothers wearing headscarves are pushing young children around in strollers. But tonight the poor, North African immigrant neighbourhood is also crawling with hundreds of police officers brandishing guns, batons and teargas canisters and there are fire trucks and sirens blaring. Abdel Maleck, a 37-year-old father of two girls, is a second-generation Frenchman whose parents, like so many thousands of their countrymen, emigrated from Algeria in the 1950s. They came from the former French colony to rebuild France and stem an acute labour shortage. Maleck says his parents were law-abiding people who worked hard and demanded their children behave well. "Today it is so different," he said. "The young people -- they are so rude, there are drug problems and they have no respect. But they have nothing to live for -- there are no jobs. The only answer to this violence is jobs for everyone." ...A 16-year-old asks me if I am with the police before launching into a sarcastic tirade against the Interior Minister. "Oh, such a great man. He does so much for us young people. We love him," he says with a cynical smile. His friend prefers to return to the unemployment problem. "I have a friend, he has a baccalaureate (high school diploma) and he works at that McDonald's. Is that fair, is that what France should be about?" Oh the horror! Having to work at McDonalds and he has a HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA!!! Mark my words folks, this has NOTHING to do with poverty or jobs. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0" title="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0" target="_blank"http://www.theaustralian.news...,5744,17139786%255E601,00 .html |
posted by: graceshaker (reply)
post date: 11.04.05 (10:20 pm)
the veil is being drawn back...
