The riots in France
November 8th, 2005I spent a few hours trying to get my head around the news coming out of France, including trying to plow my way through some articles in French.
But I think this post sums up the situation in the most balanced terms I’ve seen:
Dangereuse trilingue: The unrest here in France.
One particular idea that stood out in the French stuff I read was the claim that blogs were being used as a means of “organizing” the rioting. Here is an article to that effect:
Libération : Les blogs éclosent autour de «Clichy-sur-Jungle»
There is some pretty exotic French quoted from blogs in that article as well… I certainly couldn’t make it all out.