France Getting Tough

[Annie]

We'll see where this goes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1404500,00.html

France will take steps to break up and ban all neo-Nazi groups on French soil after new figures showed that the number of violent attacks they committed more than doubled last year, the interior minister said yesterday.
Dominique de Villepin told French television that the move did not target Jean-Marie Le Pen's far-right Front National, a legitimate political party, but the small, splintered ultra-right groups "whose common traits are incitement to hatred and the recourse to violence".

According to a French intelligence service report, up to 20 such groups are active, mainly in Alsace, the greater Paris region and southern France. Between them they have up to 3,500 members, and were responsible for 65 violent attacks in 2004, compared with 27 the previous year...

 

[onedomino]

It is good to destroy these hate groups. But conspiciously absent is a similar attack on Islamic hate groups. There will be no purge of those in France, since it would upset the coutry's good standing with Middle East dictatorships.

 

[Annie]

It is good to destroy these hate groups. But conspiciously absent is a similar attack on Islamic hate groups. There will be no purge of those in France, since it would upset the coutry's good standing with Middle East dictatorships.

I find it amusing that every few months France puts out a headline like this. Yet, nothing changes.

 

[Johnney]

It is good to destroy these hate groups. But conspiciously absent is a similar attack on Islamic hate groups. There will be no purge of those in France, since it would upset the coutry's good standing with Middle East dictatorships.

well geez 1D... you want them to bite the hand that feeds them?