Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah

http://washingtontimes.com/world/200...5755-9546r.htm

PARIS -- A gang of more than 20 youths -- thought to be North African immigrants -- terrorized hundreds of train passengers in a rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year's Day, French officials said yesterday.
The gang of between 20 and 30 youths boarded the train, heading from Nice on the French Riviera to Lyon, in eastern France, early on Jan. 1, as it carried 600 passengers home from New Year's Eve partying overnight.
A 20-year-old woman cornered by several of the marauders was sexually molested.
"It was a real scene of pillage on the train," said the regional state prosecutor, Dominique Luigi, adding that the passengers were in a state of "panic."
"They told me there had been groping. They talked about sexual assaults. They were really traumatized," she said.
The train resumed its journey with the heavy police presence on board but, just before Marseille, the youths pulled the emergency stop and many escaped.
Only three -- two 19-year-old Moroccans and a minor, all living in France -- were arrested. Both men were being held for robbery and one also was facing charges of sexual assault. The minor was to be judged separately.
Three others -- a man and two boys -- were arrested briefly in Marseille but were released despite reports they were carrying a knife, a screwdriver and a small amount of hashish.

Originally Posted by Pujo

I can't think of one thing in the world as irrelevant to me as France.

Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah

Some of us enjoy travelling there. Your taste may understandably vary.

France, Holland and Germany have negative birth rates and import workers to fill jobs. A majority are Muslims who have had increasing problems assimilating into the native cultures.

Originally Posted by Pujo

So your post was meant as a travel advisory rather than a France-bash?

Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah

It was a sardonic look at the serious continuing problems faced by French society. Problems with no effective policy solution on the horizon.

Originally Posted by Harry Boy

Instead of kissing their a ss because they are minorities what they need is a little law and order.

If you are a parent and you have 5 children do you just turn them loose in your home and allow them to do whatever they please because you don't want to "offend" them.

French Saps.

"Mommy"
"Yes dear"
"That man is is breaking that lady's legs"
"Shhh, don't say anything, he is a minority and we don't want to offend him"
"Oh"

Originally Posted by Pujo

Lol, I could find 50 countries with problems far more serious than France. I'm questioning why you're wasting your time on a country that doesn't matter.

Originally Posted by Harry Boy

Tell that to the Hard Working French Guy that just had his home and his car burned to the ground by a Tribe Of "SCREAMING ANIMALS".

Originally Posted by Pujo

This is the same French guy who you hated for not wanting a war in Iraq. Seems like you're perfectly willing to defend those you hate (the French), as long it's from somebody you hate more (Muslims).

That same thinking, by the way, is why the US armed Osama Bin Laden when they were fighting the Russians during the cold war.