French car burning cult attacks bigger vehicles

Reuters:

Vandals set three buses ablaze near French cities overnight, police said on Thursday, on the eve of the anniversary of riots that rocked France's multi-ethnic suburbs.

Masked assailants torched buses in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre and the eastern suburb of Bagnolet but passengers fled before the flames engulfed the vehicles. Television footage showed the burnt-out wrecks.

An empty, parked private coach was set on fire in Venissieux, a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon, and three youths ordered passengers off a bus in Athis Mons, south of Paris, and tried without success to set it on fire.

In the Bagnolet attack, one assailant held a pistol to the head of the driver while others forced passengers to get off.

The attacks followed a daylight assault on a bus just south of Paris on Sunday. Youths on ethnically mixed estates around the capital have also staged several apparently concerted attacks on security forces in recent weeks.

"We cannot accept the unacceptable ... We refuse to see no-go zones created in our country," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told his monthly news conference in the northwestern suburb of Cergy-Pontoise.

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Much bluster followed from French officials who have had little suggest at stopping the people who hate transportation in France. The story does not mention the religion of the perps, but it is a good bet they were not Methodist. My guess is the other religion starting with M.

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