4 days ago by tiberge

There was an eruption of violence in Bordeaux on Thursday (December 10). Novopress posted this brief: Serious confrontations occurred outside of Grand Lebrun Catholic High School in Bordeaux on Thursday late in the afternoon. Around 6:30 p.m. several dozen North Africans, some of whom were wearing h ...

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16 days ago by Brazil Institute

Courtesy of flickr user Exfordy NPR, 12/02/09 The residents of Rio de Janeiro’s slums are accustomed to seeing the police come in with guns blazing. But in Santa Marta, one of Rio’s oldest slums, or favelas, the police are trying an entirely different approach, one officials want to replicate citywi ...

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24 days ago by tiberge

The scene above took place in Toulouse after last Wednesday's game. The French flag was pulled down, and replaced by the Algerian flag. A YouTube video of the act, that I had orignally included in this post, has been removed. However, a reader of François Desouche made a copy at RuTube. I have not b ...

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28 days ago by tiberge

On Wednesday Algeria won a soccer match against Egypt. The game took place in Sudan, but the French police anticipated a violent night in France, whether Algeria won or lost. According to Le Figaro 63 persons were arrested in Paris alone: The demonstrations involved 3000 persons in the ghetto of Bar ...

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28 days ago by tiberge

FYI, in the comment section of the previous post a reader mentioned Gates of Vienna , which also covered the news of Saturday's riot in Paris that followed the cancellation of a money giveaway. The information at GoV is essentially the same, but there is a bit more speculation over the so-called "ma ...

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31 days ago by tiberge

Le Conservateur has a post entitled (in English) "Tourists Beware. Don't visit Paris, you're not safe anymore." There is only one photo, no text, but it is sufficient to convey the image of violence that occurred Saturday in Paris near the Eiffel Tower and in front of the Ecole Militaire, France's o ...

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31 days ago by tiberge

On Friday November 14 Novopress had warned of possible violence if Algeria lost a soccer match against Egypt. Algeria did lose on Saturday night. The following very short video shows a scene of a boat burning in the port of Marseilles. The next video, 2 minutes long, shows the mob in Marseilles, fol ...

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43 days ago by Brazil Institute

Samantha Pearson-The Financial Times, 11/04/09 A group of teenagers loitering outside Bob’s, Brazil’s equivalent of McDonald’s, adjust the machine guns slung over their shoulders as they turn to fixate on a passing tour bus. “No pictures! No pictures!” shouts the guide at the English and American pa ...

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49 days ago by tiberge

Violence in Fréjus: Fire and Blood There have been two nights of violence in the southern city of Fréjus (photo above). Numerous sources give accounts of the outbreak. First, Novopress : For forty-eight hours, Fréjus has seen fire and blood after the death in an accident last Sunday of Mohamed el-Ma ...

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50 days ago by Brazil Institute

The non-governmental organization, Rio Como Vamos, contracted the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics ( IBOPE) to discover Rio de Janeiro residents’ biggest fears. IBOPE discovered that what residents fear the most are stray bullets. The report interviewed 1,358 people in Rio de Jan ...

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