A “taboo” broken in France
Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy was warned of an ‘intifada’ by the police union:
Radical Muslims in France’s housing estates are waging an undeclared “intifada” against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were “in a state of civil war” with Muslims in the most depressed “banlieue” estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.
It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones. The number of attacks has risen by a third in two years. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the “taboo” of attacking officers on patrol has been broken.
The usual suspects in the MSM and elsewhere are of course explaining away this increasingly serious problem, even going so far as to use the metaphor of American urban violence of the sixties and beyond. We tend to agree with Paul Belien’s statement that the “Paris correspondent of The New York Times who writes that this a ‘variant of the same problem’ is either lying or does not know what he is talking about.”