Again, Riots in France

‘Youths’ were, yet again, riotting in France yesterday.

Gare du Nord, March 27th: A 33-year old [no further adjectives available] male passenger traveling without a ticket on an RER commuter train jumped the turnstile and was stopped by transport agents. He slapped them, triggering seven hours of punk jihad mayhem, cutely described in the media as “clashes with youths.�

The Socialist party, its head wrapped in a virtual banlieue keffieh, stood on the barricades with the youths and blamed Nicolas Sarkozy for provoking tension between the police and the populace. The UMP presidential candidate, who resigned on Monday from his post as Interior Minister, observed that France is the only country in which it is considered abnormal to reprehend a passenger who rides for free.

Nice.