"Shop owners and local political leaders voiced astonishment that police were caught by surprise and wondered who the violent protesters were and where they came from....
And they DISAPPEARED just as quickly with nothing much really happening to them. Isn't that odd?
intelligence agents should have picked up signals that the ultraleftists.... who organized the destruction must have come from outside the city, perhaps even outside France. Police acknowledged to local reporters that they had no idea who the ringleaders were"
Related(?): Somalis Sieze French Spies
Yeah, did that story ever go away quick.
"Ancient town in France is terrorized by anarchist unrest" by Edward Cody, Washington Post | October 18, 2009
And WE KNOW WHO is BEHIND THAT!
WHO BENEFITS when GOOD PROTESTERS are given a BAD NAME -- especially in an agenda-pushing newspaper!?
They TIP THEIR HAND with their selective and biased adjectives!
POITIERS, France - Suddenly, a knot of black-clad youths emerged from the crowd. They donned plastic masks, pulled up their hoods and started destroying everything in sight. In what police described as an organized attack, the band shattered store windows, damaged the facades of several banks, and spray-painted anarchist slogans on government buildings....
Do I really need comment?
The wanton destruction, which lasted for about 90 minutes early last Saturday evening, was a dramatic reminder that France and other European nations, below their surface of stability and wealth, harbor tiny bands of ultraleftist activists who still want to combat the market economies and parliamentary democracies on which the continent’s well-being is founded....
I'm not fooled anymore.
Based on politics of violent rejection dating from the 1970s, the groups have been largely overshadowed in recent years by the more mundane violence of big-city drug gangs and disaffected immigrant ghettos, particularly in France.
Yup, GLADIO!
But they have surfaced recently in dramatic ways. French, German, and other European ultraleftists set fire to a customs shed and a hotel during the NATO summit in Strasbourg in April, and others launched violent attacks that marred an otherwise joyous music festival this summer in the streets of Paris.
I don't destroy property. What sense is there in that?
We need to USE PROPERTY and NOURISH IT, not destroy it!
I'm sorry, but I'M NOT WITH YOU VIOLENT LEFTISTS at all!!!! And note the MSM s***-fooley they try to play on you at the end.
The outburst in Poitiers was particularly shocking to its 90,000 residents, most of whom traditionally regard themselves as comfortably distant from the political tensions of Paris and the world. Shop owners and local political leaders voiced astonishment that police were caught by surprise and wondered who the violent protesters were and where they came from....
Mayor Alain Claeys, from the opposition Socialist Party, suggested to Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux that his ministry’s intelligence agents should have picked up signals that the ultraleftists were planning something. Joining many other Poitiers residents, he said those who organized the destruction must have come from outside the city, perhaps even outside France....
Police acknowledged to local reporters that they had no idea who the ringleaders were. They took 18 people into custody and, in a show of firmness, put eight of them on immediate trial last Monday. Defense lawyers argued that the eight were just locals swept up in the movement, however, and judges sentenced only three to prison terms, from one to four months.
Yeah, the BIG FISH GOT AWAY, huh? Yup!
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So what hell did they raise in France?
"Farmers protest, block roads in France; They demand aid from government as food prices fall" by Rachel Kurowski, Associated Press | October 17, 2009
Oh, NOW I GET IT, cui bono?
Yeah, FRANCE'S VERSION of GLADIO -- why the cops and intel had "no idea" and can't catch anyone -- to DISCREDIT the GOOD FARMERS of FRANCE, yup!
PARIS - French farmers struggling with slumping grain prices blanketed the Champs-Élysées with bales of hay and set them ablaze yesterday and blocked highways around the country as they demanded government help.
About 150 farmers blocked traffic and unloaded hay and tires onto the most famous shopping street in Paris. The protesters set the hay on fire, but firefighters quickly extinguished the flames.
Grain farmers were staging nationwide protests to call attention to their debts and other difficulties that have mounted as food prices have fallen from record highs in 2007.
And WHO BENEFITS from RUINING THIS DEMONSTRATION, 'eh, readers?
NONE OTHER THAN GOVERNMENT!!
More than 50,000 farmers, with 7,000 tractors and 1,000 animals, disrupted traffic throughout the country, from Toulouse in southern France to Calais on the English Channel and Moselle in the northeast....
And who would want to wreck that, huh?
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Update: France sentences Israeli mogul Gaydamak to 6 years for gun-running
Think we will see that in the Globe tomorrow?
