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BELGIUM BAKES, MELBURNS

As France cools down, Belgium heats up:

The Belgian government’s crisis centre confirmed on Tuesday night vandals had set cars ablaze in the cities of Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels.

It is the third night in succession that cars have been torched, but a spokesman for the national crisis centre said each case was an “isolated” incident.

Isolated incidents have also been observed in Australia:

The marked police car was 30 metres from the front entrance of Auburn police station when three men smashed the passenger window and threw a Molotov cocktail inside at 10.45pm AEDT yesterday, a police spokesman said.

Meanwhile, in Melbourne, pure bin-flaming horror:


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Photographer Andrew R. writes: “This has happened within the last 24 hours. A public facility completely burnt out, left a shell, useless. In the centre of Melbourne. Near to where cars pass by, every now and then. In the World’s Most Comfortable-With-Itself City. What caused this? Has the French carnage spread to Melbourne? We live in worrying times.”

Posted by Tim B. on 11/09/2005 at 11:43 AM

  1. Incidents in Spain

    Meanwhile, violence broke out in the Seville neighborhood of Santa Cruz, where five cars and a motorcycle were torched yesterday, the night after some twenty garbage skips were set on fire. Seville firemen have said they won’t make any more such calls if they don’t get a police escort, since they have been attacked by violent youths while putting out the flames. Administration spokesman Justino Valdés said there was no reason for alarm and that this was an isolated incident. He called those who link these events with those in France “demagogues, because to compare this with what is happening in Paris is to generate an excessive level of anger.” 

    Posted by Hellbilly on 2005 11 09 at 01:04 PM • permalink

  2. Uh, maybe this is just stupidity on my part, but is that “public facility” a trash can?  And is it possible that some idiot threw a lit cigarette butt into it, is why it burnt up?

    (The photographer may have been joking, but things like that happen a lot in Chicago.)

    Posted by Challeron on 2005 11 09 at 01:18 PM • permalink

  3. The Volokh Conspiracy has a interesting piece on a recent article in Le Figaro

    The French Educational System’s Role in the Riots: A few days before the riots began, Le Figaro’s weekly France-Amerique edition published a disturbing article detailing how French public school textbooks justify terrorism. The article is a summary of the new book Élèves sous influence by Barbara Lefebvre and Éve Bonnivard, published by Editions Audibert, and which details how French high school and college textbooks treat terrorism. The article is Quand les livres scolaires “expliquent” le terrorism: Les manuels d’histoire réduiraient le djihad islamique à une contestation de l’Oncle Sam, by Cécilia Gabizon. (When schoolbooks “explain” terrorism: History textbooks reduce Islamic jihad to a dispute with Uncle Sam.)

    Perhaps the French are reaping what they’ve sown in more ways than one.

    Posted by Hellbilly on 2005 11 09 at 01:57 PM • permalink

  4. The photographer may have been joking

    He was.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 11 09 at 02:34 PM • permalink

  5. Of all the outlets reporting that the riots seemed to die down yesterday, only oxblog bothered to mention that the weather sucked.

    Posted by tim maguire on 2005 11 09 at 05:47 PM • permalink

  6. Bins do burn because of idiot smokers.

    What happened in Auburn however is quite disturbing, though unsurprising in the slightest.

    Suggest you read ex-cop Tim Priest’s account of the Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia.

    Also, if you have not yet done so, read Andrew Bolt’s newest piece, The Threat is Real. Amazing to read.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2005 11 09 at 06:22 PM • permalink

  7. The burning bin story is garbage.

    Posted by noir on 2005 11 09 at 07:00 PM • permalink

  8. If they find the person(s) responsible for setting alight that bin they should immediately be stripped of their citizenship and deported - to France.

    Posted by rightsaid on 2005 11 09 at 08:22 PM • permalink

  9. Auburn, strangely, also the home to a large population of:

    a. Buddhists
    b. Amish
    c. Muslims
    d. Taoists

    Posted by Nic on 2005 11 09 at 08:38 PM • permalink

  10. Maybe the torcheurs are commuting, having run out of Euroscoots to burn in France…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 11 09 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  11. The threat is real, eh Bolta?  No kidding. 

    He certainly writes well and pokes the lefties in the eye entertainingly.  An occasional interesting angle or original insight would be nice.

    Posted by slammer on 2005 11 10 at 12:18 AM • permalink

  12. THIS JUST IN: The Palestinian leadership has lodged a strong protest with the French government over the continuing lack of respect towards automobiles in Paris and surrounding cities.

    A Palestinian Authority Spokesman said “by inciting these innocent youths to civil disobedience, the French government and its evil Zionist puppetmasters are showing a complete lack of respect towards a long held Palestinian tradition”. He warned that the Authority would not be held to blame for the “serious consequences” that would arise should the blasphamy continue.

    When asked to comment, an upset local on the street in Gaza today said “without cars, the car swarm is over. The west is seeking to destroy our culture and enslave our people. How will my young son be able to follow in my footsteps?”

    President Chirac responded immediately with a five point plan:

    - all French citizens will have to pass a training course about respect for the car’s position in Palestinian culture;
    - 40,000 new “car sensitivity monitors” will be appointed to patrol France to ensure that cars are treated with tolerance and respect;
    - any source of news or comment (such as TV or the internet) will be monitored for signs of car-related intolerance with offenders being shot;
    - mopeds and other forms of transport that compete with the car and thereby demean Palestinian culture shall be banned;
    - a ship full of French cars will be sent to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank immediately to ensure the survival of this fragile culture.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 11 10 at 02:06 AM • permalink

  13. O/t With all the ABC emphasis on the dismissal today, I noticed most pollies on the media were wearing red poppies to salute the end of world war one on Remembrance Day.I didn’t hear any reference from aunty about it and Red kezza wasn’t wearing a poppy,neither was Goff -symbolic?

    Posted by crash on 2005 11 10 at 09:33 AM • permalink

  14. Only takes one bright spark to torch a laden bin.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2005 11 10 at 08:40 PM • permalink

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