How safe is it to travel to France? | 11 comments (11 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Demos in Paris? (none / 1)

Already last Friday, the U.S. embassy in Paris warned U.S. citizens of demonstrations in the suburbs of the French capital and other French cities.

Demonstrations in Paris? That's a laugh. There is always some sort of demonstration, strike or diplomatic disturbance (with buses of menacing CRS waiting for the next bastonade) in Paris!

Circulez, y'a rien à voir!

by ClaudeB on Tue Nov 8th, 2005 at 02:14:06 AM EST

Re: Demos in Paris? (none / 0)

Yep - 700 official demonstrations per year in Paris. And that's only those that require notification to the Préfecture.

The city has full time police and cleaning crews to follow these.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Nov 8th, 2005 at 04:16:11 AM EST
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Re: Demos in Paris? (none / 0)

That's what living in the capital of a centralized (non-federal) state is like. Everyone with a grievance comes to demonstrate before the central govennment.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 8th, 2005 at 04:37:33 AM EST
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Re: Demos in Paris? (none / 0)

Identifying riots, car-burning and violence with "demonstrations" is not very democratic indeed. Maybe it is just the result of a diplomatic wording, trying to avoid words like "riot". But still, I resent the lack of democratic culture which is lurking behind identifications like these.

by Saturday (geckes(at)gmx.net) on Tue Nov 8th, 2005 at 04:49:33 AM EST
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How safe is it to travel to France? | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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