Bet you didn't know 14 officers are being wounded PER DAY in France

Here is the story I was looking for yesterday, from the Telegraph:

Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. 

As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the most depressed "banlieue" estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.

It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones.

The number of attacks has risen by a third in two years. Police representatives told the newspaper Le Figaro that the "taboo" of attacking officers on patrol has been broken.

Instead, officers – especially those patrolling in pairs or small groups – faced attacks as soon as they tried to arrest locals.

"We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their 'comrades' free when they are arrested."

He added: "We need armoured vehicles and water cannon. They are the only things that can disperse crowds of hundreds of people who are trying to kill police and burn their vehicles."

Incredibly, not all the French authorities recognize what they're dealing with yet.  Many still think the problem is criminal, not Islamic, and is exacerbated by harsh police tactics.  The police are demanding armored cars and more water canon.  The softies in the government are demurring.  With 2,500 officers getting wounded in one year, one has to wonder just what it will take before all of France sees the light.  When they start running out of police recruits, what then?

Durka Durka Mohammed Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bak Allah

Thanks to New Sisyphus for pointing me in the right direction.

Unrelated thought:  What this war needs is more war brides.  Where are they?

Comments

[TigerHawk]

I did a post on this a few days back. Actually, compared to the population of France, it does not seem that French police are wounded at a faster rate than American police. It is just that their criminals come from a somewhat different demographic.

[Josh]

Me again. I somehow stumbled upon your blog, and the only thing that's kept me here is the utter amount of bullshit that needs to be set straight.
I live in Paris, and the Banlieue is indeed a fairly violent place, police officers can't travel in small groups, and in the 'cités' it is increasingly difficult to have the police intervene.
But this has NOTHING to do with radical islamism.
Fact is, many young immigrants in the cités are from north africa, and come from a muslim family, but to call them radical islamists is just completely wrong.
I don't know if you have bad sources or if you just wildly misinterpert everything you read, but this blog is a perfect example of all the bad things the internet has given us : blogs where a person who knows NOTHING about a given topic blabbers on and on with misinformation and personal biases.
Racial and religious tensions in and around Paris are a very serious, delicate, and complex problem. Next time just post a picture of a cute doggy.

[Air Max 95]

mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I'm more of a visual learner,I found that to be more helpful.