It’s hard to find some good reporting on the Paris riots, one of the newspapers here this morning claimed that the violence had abated somewhat. Well, that’s hardly the case. Below I’ve translated an excerpt from the Dutch public broadcasting organization’s report on night number nine, Friday night, and you can draw your own conclusions:

The riots in France have spread further last night. In the entire country some 900 cars were burned, almost as much as all previous nights combined. The Paris riots have now spread to Rennes, Rouen, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice.

Last night a Kindergarten, a synagogue and warehouses were set on fire. In Paris hundreds of people had to flee their apartment complex when a basement parking was set on fire. The police arrested 250 rioters.

The French government has met for emergency meetings. The public prosecutor in Paris concluded it was organized violence.

The term “Paris Riots” has become a complete misnomer. There’s war going on in France and that is coming from someone who is not given to hyperbole, but the facts have made that conclusion inescapable. It is almost unbelievable that the Chirac administration truly believed that it could somehow escape the jihadist wrath by staying out of Iraq and distance itself from America’s War on Terror. The bitter irony is that rather than having his troops deployed in the Middle East, the French president may now need them at home.

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