TOLD YOU SO.....
Saturday June 17 1:55 AM ET
Euro 2000 Roundup
By RAF CASERT, Associated Press Writer
Even the sweetest goals could not prevent Euro 2000 from turning sour.
After a first week of fun and games, a hooligan riot left a trail of destruction through Brussels, Belgium, and left 137 Englishmen in jail even before Saturday's kickoff of the game between Germany and England in Charleroi, Belgium.
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Footnote : Belgium alone had to fund a one-billion BEF ($25 million) budget to handle the Euro 2000's overall security.... However, according to recent estimates, security's total cost would exceed $30 million! Which doesn't account for the Netherlands' security budget and doesn't take into account the damages that might occur (vandalized streetshops, burnt cars, hospitalized people, etc.)
George, as I once put it, this is pure Orwellian violence, that is a violence tolerated by the State because it doesn't prop up any political agenda.... When a few youngsters from a Brussels ghetto start to retaliate to a blatant police abuse it triggers an immediate outrage by the local politicos --even though the resulting damages don't exceed a couple of $100K. Go figure.... |
