Paris Riots

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vindaloo79

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1,142 posts

95 months

Tuesday 3rd June
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I was quite surprised to catch this on the newsfeed and yet haven’t noticed it mentioned anywhere else.

https://youtu.be/_dRZQITOc_A?si=5eGbrVRjS1-LFTQJ

It put into a different context the emotions of drivers trapped in cars amongst crowds ( as per the sad Liverpool aftermath) after seeing a less classy news source (not attached) showing a woman cowering in her car as rioters smashed her windows.


Portofino

4,726 posts

206 months

Tuesday 3rd June
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They kicking off over there again? Almost an annual mardi gras now.

sherman

14,381 posts

230 months

Tuesday 3rd June
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The French do love a good riot.
I was onve in Psris when there was riots on the Champs Elyesse.
I could see all the blue lights from the top of the Eiffel tower.
I went to the Louvre and the Champs Elyesse the next day. Everything was clean and tidy like it had never happened.

I assume its hardly reported as it happens so often.

Derek Smith

47,375 posts

263 months

Wednesday 4th June
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'Riots in Paris' holds the same degree of interest as Claud Cockburn's, 'Small Earthquake in Chile. Not Many Dead', put forward, in the pre-affronted days, as the most boring headline.

There used to be a sub-culture in the old days, when there were lots of newspapers, of humorous headlines. A man committed suicide by jumping off the roof off the Old Kent Road pub, The World Turned Upside Down. The headline: 'Man Jumps Off The World'. When investigating corrupt traffic wardens, the report was entitled, 'Bay Watch'.

'Riots in Paris' suffers in comparison.

daddy cool

4,050 posts

244 months