3 jours d'après - tour 2

SECOND NIGHT OF RIOTING IN FRANCE

PARIS May 8, 2007 (CNN) - Late Monday night, several hundred people massed again at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, breaking windows in nearby shops and starting street fires. Riot officers dispersed them, and about 100 people were detained, police said Tuesday. One police officer was lightly injured and eight cars and two scooters were torched, according to the Paris police headquarters.

Police officials said the perpetrators appeared to be anarchists and far leftists.

In Nantes in western France, hundreds gathered again Monday night, with a few dozen hurling beer bottles and other projectiles at police. Police responded with tear gas and arrested several people. Public buildings were also damaged and minor incidents were also reported in Toulouse in southern France.

... Most of the troublemakers this week have been white, whereas the 2005 riots involved many black and Arab youth... This week's protesters resembled some of the young people who helped bring down a minor labor reform last year through mass demonstrations.

Sarkozy's reforms promise to be tougher, and are certain to meet similar street protests.

These are feeble efforts by French standards of mayhem. It falls far below the extortionate civil war promised by Ségo if France failed to do right and vote her into the Élysée. Having failed to fan France into flames, the Socialists only now reprehend the violence they openly provoked.

SOCIALISTS APPEAL FOR END TO VIOLENCE OVER SARKOZY VICTORY

PARIS May 8, 2007 (Fox) - François Hollande, first secretary of the Parti Socialiste, Tuesday on RTL radio:

To all those who can hear me, I ask them to immediately stop all this behavior. We are in a republic, where universal suffrage is the only law we know. There can be disappointment, there can be anger, there can be frustration. But the only way to react is to take up your ballots, not other weapons.

Royal had warned of renewed violence in case of a Sarkozy victory, and had sought to make the campaign a referendum on Sarkozy's polarizing persona.

M. Hollande is only some 4 days late with his civic lesson. And Ségo has been given the answer to her referendum. She lost at the ballot. And she has lost in the banlieues, failing to inspire banlieusards to riotry. The only forces she has convoked are the bobo Royalistes and assorted leftists who continue to trash the Republic.

SARKOZY: NOUVEAUX INCIDENTS À LYON,
INCENDIE DU LOCAL UMP À VILLEURBANNE
[SARKOZY: NEW INCIDENTS IN LYON, FIRE SET TO UMP OFFICE AT VILLEURBANNE]
8 mai 2007 (Le Monde/AFP)

THIRD NIGHT OF ANTI-SARKOZY PROTESTS IN FRANCE
PARIS, May 9, 2007 (AFP)

PFFT (What is this?): Bobo riots 4 | Putting genie back in the bottle ½ | Rayonnement français 0