Paris burns

[saptastic]

This is obviously very sad - but there is always something that can trigger a riot in Paris.

[Paddy]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoo...les_de_Menezes

*cough*

In the end, the police were successfully prosecuted for breach of health and safety regulations.

[NotAllThere]

If anyone points a gun at you - no matter how vicious, racist or thuggish they are - if you want to stay alive you comply with their instructions.

[SueEllen]

If anyone points a gun at you - no matter how vicious, racist or thuggish they are - if you want to stay alive you comply with their instructions.

You need to see the gun first.

While Jean Charles de Menezes didn't, French people all know their police are armed.

[vetran]

If anyone points a gun at you - no matter how vicious, racist or thuggish they are - if you want to stay alive you comply with their instructions.

Nah you can go all Jackie Chan and disarm them with a set of stepladders.

Sadly youngsters (or thick older people) think they are invincible and their rights will protect them as demonstrated by those that step out into the road with a 2 ton vehicle approaching at 30 mph and 10 feet away. Risk perception is a skill.

[d000hg]

Obviously they are now burning all the cars in protest, but then that's what they do when bin collection is missed.

[SueEllen]

Obviously they are now burning all the cars in protest, but then that's what they do when bin collection is missed.

If they burn enough cars it minimises the number of traffic stops in the area the police can do.

but then that's what they do when bin collection is missed.

Dump it in bags on the street? Not everyone uses bins in England for their refuse collection.

[vetran]

If they burn enough cars it minimises the number of traffic stops in the area the police can do.



Dump it in bags on the street? Not everyone uses bins in England for their refuse collection.

You mean 'fly tipping'? we got you covered NSFW

[SueEllen]

You mean 'fly tipping'?

Nope.

There are a few local authorities I know who either don't give out wheelie bins or if homes aren't suitable for them, tell you to put your rubbish in black bin bags. Recycling goes in different bags.

You then leave them either on the outside boundary of your property, or in an accessible place on your property the night before bin collection day.

If you leave them out earlier than the night before bin collection day you can get fined for fly tipping as the local animal population will split the bags. (Though in some cases I suspect it is the local homeless human population.)

So one of my relations household puts all their refuse and recycling in bags then in different traditional dustbins, then around 8pm before bin collection day every week they take them out of the dustbins to put the bags in an accessible place on their property. The authority has fined people who have done it earlier who leave it outside their property boundary.

Then there are are a couple of people I know who put their rubbish and recycling bags out multiple times a week in bags outside their property's boundary. People tend to be sneaky and dump their rubbish on their neighbours so I've not heard of people being fined.

(I've always lived in places where I can have wheelie bins.)

[SueEllen]

Still burning and the police officer has asked for forgiveness.


https://news.sky.com/story/he-didnt-...rance-12912081

The police officer who shot and killed a teenager during a traffic stop in Paris has asked the family of the boy for forgiveness.

His lawyer Laurent-Franck Lienard told BFMTV: "The first words he pronounced were to say sorry and the last words he said were to say sorry to the family.

"He is devastated, he doesn't get up in the morning to kill people. He didn't want to kill him."

Mr Lienard added that his client's detention was being used to try to calm rioters.

The 17-year-old victim, named only as Nahel M, was known to police for previously failing to comply with traffic stop orders, public prosecutor Pascal Prache said.
He was shot during Tuesday's morning rush hour after failing to stop when the Mercedes AMG he was driving was spotted in a bus lane in Nanterre, a small town on the outskirts of Paris.

Two police officers caught up with the car in a traffic jam and when the car tried to get away, one officer fired at close range through the driver's window.

Nahel died from a single shot through his left arm and chest, Nanterre public prosecutor Pascal Prache said.

Unrest has spread across France as President Emmanuel Macron fights to control a spiralling crisis sparked by the shooting.

The French leader has been criticised for attending an Elton John concert and posing for backstage pictures with the star and his husband, David Furnish - a day after the shooting and amid the ongoing riots.