Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said Sunday.
While I still don't know if this is rioting or an attempt at an uprising, this shows at least some think of this as an uprising:
Police found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of the city, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, a senior Justice Ministry official said Sunday.
One has to ask how these Franco-jihadis think they can win this at 8-10% of the population. This is serious delusion time.
A disturbing fact is that the riots are spreading across France:
The unrest has taken on unprecedented scope and intensity, reaching far-flung corners of France on Saturday, from Rouen in Normandy to Bordeaux in the southwest to Strasbourg near the German border.
The article notes that the worst is still around Paris but what happens if the unrest spreads to Germany? It is already happening a bit in Denmark, but if it goes to the heart of the Axis of Weasels and perhaps Mini Moi, Belgium, does this become a European Union problem?
So then we will have the instructive lesson of the value of the EU. It is supposed to eliminate nation-states in favor of a Euro superstate. With open borders, Euro-jihadis will be able to travel at will anywhere in Europe. But in a classic counter-insurgency campaign (if this is what develops), you need to control the borders. But the border does not exist between European states anymore. Will the EU allow the Germans to seal their legally non-existent border with France to keep out Franco-jihadis?
And will the EU direct other countries to send troops or police to help France? In America, troops are deployed--even state National Guard troops--across the country as needed.
My best guess is that the EU will give the worst of both worlds. The EU won't send troops to help endangered areas and won't let the countries of the EU control their national borders to isolate the local problem.
Were I God of the EU, I wouldn't try to hold any referenda on the EU for a while after that.
