As the new Moslem rioting season arrives, the rioters are apparently setting their sights on bigger targets:
Youths forced passengers off three buses and set them on fire overnight in suburban Paris, raising tensions Thursday ahead of the first anniversary of the riots that engulfed France's rundown, heavily immigrant neighborhoods.
The French have put 50,000 riot police on standby for an extended confrontation:
French authorities are keeping a force of some 50,000 riot police in permanent stand-by. A ministry spokesman said it is important to find “the good balance: not overreact to the situation, but at the same time, not underestimate it either.”
A local prefect (a provincial governor) added: “In case of trouble, we will have to be able to control events for a prolonged period without running out of forces.”
Perhaps we will get the answer to whether last year's riots over jobs rather than hijabs were Le Xington and Concorde, the mere prequel to wanting separation from the mother country, France.
Last year the Moslem rioters came for the cars and the French government did nothing. This year they are coming for the buses, it seems.
I wonder what the "immigrant youths" will torch next year?
