Rioting has broken out in the city center of Lyon.

Well, I guess the lull in rioting earlier this week was genuine and not just due to the end of the weekend.

Maybe we ought to set up a pool on if or when there's a Sixth Republic?

Why not just mow down the bastard thugs with machine guns as a first measure? I'm an emigrant and I was down on my luck a couple of times, but never felt the need (or the right) to burn cars and throw rocks at people. What do they think, they are in some f'kn Gaza strip, or something?

(sorry for the lexicon, just read a few of the comments on the bbc board, and wanted to puke because of all the touchy-feely "we/they the French are at fault, please burn my car and take my wife" crap)

Here's a heartfelt comment from a Frenchman in the Lorraine region, who is very angry at the elitist politicians and 'BOBOs' who are destroying his country. An excerpt:

It seems that in USA, people are misinformed about the spread of the riots. let me give you a piece of enlightenment about them. Muslim riots happened in areas mostly populated by Muslim immigrants (up to 80%). The riots were contained in those areas by a police which were conscious of not committing any flaw that was expected by the Mollas to upsurge all the Muslim people.

Most of the rioters were known by the police for many acts of serious delinquency .Some spent few years in jails others were probably relaxed by a Justice poisoned by Marxists ( Syndicat de la Magistrature - union of leftist lawers ) .In my opinion , those gangsters were monitored by the Mollas who pushed them to provoke the authorities , expecting any flaws that could be used to upsurge the whole Muslim Mass.

Those Muslim bastards never come and put the mess in French countryside villages where most of people are deer-hunters and have hunting guns. Should they do it, be sure that they will be welcome by the same kind of "welcoming committee " that in any USA village. They know it.

Unfortunately, these riots didn't spread in well-standard living areas where the so-called "bobo" live. Should it happen , that it would wake them up from their mental anesthesia.

France people can be divided in 4 categories:
The Politicians, the " BOBO ", the French popular Mass and the aliens.

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As they say, RTWT...

Depending on your news organization, you will either read that Paris is quiet, or that rioters are burning things up in the city center of Lyons.