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Crisis of French society - and the left | 68 comments (68 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

1,356 car fires in a SINGLE département??

The fact that France has casually accepted this as a fact of life seems to me a damning indictment of the entire society, from top to bottom.

by tyronen on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 03:48:17 PM EST
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Re: It does make it worse (none / 0)

It started, strangely enough, as a New Year's Eve game in Strasbourg (and it involved, at first, mostly stolen German cars), and it's become a lot more widespread in recent years. How much is linked to trafficking and how much is just casual violence is hard to tell. It's easy, it's spectacular, and it's happening a lot.

but you're right, it's not a sign of a fully healthy society.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 04:30:21 PM EST
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Re: It does make it worse (none / 0)

And the César to the best understatement of the day goes to...

it's not a sign of a fully healthy society.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 04:40:36 PM EST
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Re: It does make it worse (none / 0)

yeap, but it's not either the sign of impending doom and catastrophe that seems to be the new story du jour.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 3rd, 2005 at 05:06:20 PM EST
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