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French justice is working overtime and the mood is stern after thousands of teen arrests

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By JADE LE DELEY and LORI HINNANT

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Every single one of these people's "heroes" is a non compliant criminal, every single one. And they have the nerve to burn, I mean, ask for empathy from law abiding, normal people.

"He was shot for not having a license".

It doesnt matter why the cop stopped you, chances are slim to none you'll end up getting shot right there for no reason at all.

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You can't deport French citizens.

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Grilledham&cheese

You can deport terrorist. We’ve gone over this before Wallace

They are not terrorists and the French authorities have never suggested they are. You can't deport French citizens.

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People have the right to be pissed in the banlieu's but they don't have the right to go out looting and burning instead of peaceful protest...

The kiddies aren't scared by the justice system and France's mostly third-world gaols are teeming over. It's time for another approach to deal with scum that ruin people's property and peaceful lives.

It's pretty ironic that the only thing that springs to mind after all this chaos is "live rounds".

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"You can't deport French citizens."

And Morocco and Algeria certainly don't want them "back". Nobody wants them really, the problems all start from this fundamental foundation.

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Grilledham&cheese

Most of these individuals are not citizens but asylum seekers.

You are not on the ground so you don't know. Watching the nightly reports, they are French citizens.

Guess your not paying much attention to all the Algerian flags their flying or the Muslim clerics claiming France will be an Islamic state

Not happening.

Now you know why Americans love the 2nd Amendment!

The right to mass murder. Like Jan 6 riots.

People such as yourself will always hide behind your door’s protected, but demand for more immigration even though you will never personally house a single one of these folks.

You actually know nothing about me. You don't even seem to know which country I live in.

How many immigrants innocent French citizens have died or been raped by these as Finally rich called them “Hero’s”? Not hero’s more like animals

Tell us then.

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You can't defend yourself against the French paramilitary police. I have been to many French demos.

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@wallace

You are on a losing wicket -defending the indefensible.

The very reason that you are able to live without fear of a home invasion is because the authorities in Japan would clamp down hard on those that did

France is doing the same

Good for them

Do you really have any idea of what life in a big city is like now?

I don’t think you do

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85% of the French population are white.

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How many immigrants innocent French citizens have died or been raped by these

Do you know? Just asking questions?

Most of these individuals are not citizens but asylum seekers.

Reuters and grilledham&cheese were unable to verify these claims.

Now you know why Americans love the 2nd Amendment!

The French Military will have to step in and start shooting!

Do you not see the hypocrisy in supporting both the second amendment and a police state at the same time?

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kurisupisu

@wallace

You are on a losing wicket -defending the indefensible.

I am not defending looting and rioting. But that is the effect and not the cause. Unless the cause is understood and fixed it will continue to happen. But some posted "deport them" but French citizens can't be deported.

The very reason that you are able to live without fear of a home invasion is that the authorities in Japan would clamp down hard on those that did

I spend more than 40 years living in Europe including the UK, France (I have a French son), Italy, and Holland.

France is doing the same

> Good for them

> Do you really have any idea of what life in a big city is like now?

Do you since you don't live in one?

The current problems are the same as those 50 years ago. Nothing changed.

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"Are you saying France is a police state?"

The police and the gendarmes have far too much power, but it is not a police state here. I was at Arnage this weekend doing wheelspins along with everyone else who wanted to show off their cars in front of the gendarmes whilst normal cars several kms away burnt in Le Mans city centre and shops were looted. It was surreal.

As long as they aren't threatened the policing seems far more intelligent than in real police states like China or the United Kingdom.

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@wallace

Do you since you don't live in one?

The current problems are the same as those 50 years ago. Nothing changed.

I can categorically say that the big European cities that I went to are more edgy and crime ridden.

You might assume that I am rooted in one place as you are, in a small town-not so.

Currently, I am in Kobe which is the 5th or 6th largest city in Japan which you might remember

Now, I spent a year back in the UK, near Heathrow 2021-2022 during the pandemic

I did 10,000 miles driving all over the country

Spoke with hundreds of people about their situations in shops,pubs,on the street, all over

Saw some altercation and drugs being sold and used with absolutely no Police interest.

Walking into shops there is different than you were there.

There are screens and cameras in almost all shops there -like the US

Before that I had two months in France and Germany

Was in Gare du Nord station where the gendarmes stand in Perspex booths!

I figure so that they can’t be rushed and overpowered

99% of the pedestrians were immigrants

Again, I went all over and at all times of the day

From what I see of Paris there is a sub class of people there that do the jobs that the Parisians don’t want to do.

Good on them

However, the cause of the riots?

Many jobs with low wages and no prospects and there are those that concentrate on crime and only that.

I won’t get into Islam and the effects there but it should not be discounted as a negative influence amongst the young

Many of those rioted, not against poverty or discrimination but because they saw a chance to get something for free.

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It’s been done many times and it works.

I believe Roy meant the 1980’s.

As much as you’d like to you can’t turn the clock back cheese.

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@ wallace

the gendarmerie is part of the military

And if you really know Paris then you know that there is a sub class of poor immigrants especially around the area I mentioned previously

In the some suburbs around Paris, coffee shops are barred to women-you knew that?

Do you not get the dichotomy?

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The judge comes off like a Trump appointment, completely puzzled that a Black French citizen isn't grateful for the 'privilege' of being 'allowed' to be in the country he was born in.

That this native Frenchman daily experienced open racism, harassment, and violent policing, and knows that no level of success and law abiding behavior would change that is a complete mystery to the judge.

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The reason for that many illegals in the states is because of the crime family in charge and the corrupt justice department.

It all happened in 4 years?

I think you need to dig a little deeper than reading retweets from ‘angry voices’.

You know, history and stuff.

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The shooting of the motorist on all the facts available was wholly unjustified.

The peaceful protest of his family and other concerned citizens is both legal and justified.

Rioting and looting are just the criminal acts of thugs and there is no justification. Those using lethal weapons (Molotov cocktails) rightly must answer to the courts as must those destroying and looting innocent peoples property or public property which will have to be paid for out of ordinary French peoples taxes.

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