We Don't Need No Water, Let The ************ Burn

The citizens of France welcomed newly elected Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to office yesterday by pretty much burning down everything that wasn't flame retardant:

Agence France-Presse, citing national police headquarters, reported that 730 cars had been set afire overnight, 35 in Paris, and that 592 people had been arrested, 79 in the capital. It said 78 police officers had been injured.

That brings the total to over 1500 cars firebombed in two nights, along with 12 French cities under siege, hundreds of stores damaged and destroyed, government buildings, post offices, schools and roads smashed and/or destroyed.

So, what does the New York Times think you should know?

In Paris, at least, the protesters were mostly white and below the age of 30

Yes, 5% of the cars and 15% of the arrests in Paris could possibly have been white kids. It doesn't give any hard numbers of white kids being arrested or participating in the firebombings of cars, it just says the protesters in Paris were mainly white.

As for the 11 other cities under siege, the New York Times reporter doesn't know the colour of their skin, so we'll have to assume that they are also white.

So far there is no word on the environmental damage caused by this catastrophe, or how many carbon credits the French government will have to buy to eliminate the carbon footprint left by the white radicals who are destroying the country.

More news as it happens

Picture taken from FF