Though smaller in scale rioting similar to this November’s has occurred in France since the early 1980s. In fact, authors have described in detail the repeated actions of disenchanted youth of North African descent in decaying French conurbations.Murder and cover up by French "peacekeepers":
Three French military captains testified that a colonel based in Ivory Coast tried to cover up the murder of a civilian by French peacekeepers there, judicial officials said yesterday.The three claimed that Col Eric Burgaud also congratulated his men when they told him of the death of Firmin Mahe, suffocated to death with a plastic bag inside a French armoured vehicle in May, the officials said.At the highest levels:
The investigation of the killing and its subsequent cover-up has shaken the French military at the highest levels. Gen Henri Poncet, who led French peacekeepers in the West African nation at the time, was put under investigation in the case for "complicity in murder".Nuclear threats by Chirac (didn't he sell nuclear technology to Iran back in the day?):
«Jacques Chirac has hinted that he is prepared to use nuclear weapons against any state that carries out a terrorist attack against France.Oops, no that was Iraq Chirac supplied with nuclear capability:
The French president said France must be able to hit hard at a hostile state's "capacity to act".»
French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac cultivated France's special relationship with Iraq during the 1970s to maintain an influence in a region dominated by Anglo-Saxons and boost trade links with the oil-rich nation.
He led the universal condemnation of Israel's attack on Osirak.
Then, 22 years later - as French president - Mr Chirac was vehemently against the USA and Britain going to war with Iraq over the issue of weapons of mass destruction.
La BELLE France
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