Re: Sharky won handsomely, as you know. Clearly, 53% of French electorate couldn't have been "anti-France", as the writer suggested. I'm sure you saw the widespread celebrations in France, on TV.
Celebrations?! Well, sort of....
More riots in France over Sarkozy
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
France's defeated Socialists called for an end to violence yesterday after rioters took to the streets for a second night in protest at the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president.
About 500 youths shouting 'Sarko fascist!' went on a rampage in the Bastille district of eastern Paris, looting two stores including a supermarket and smashing windows.
A total of 218 people were arrested during four hours of clashes as protesters threw stones and other projectiles at police, one of whom was injured.
Elsewhere, anti-Sarkozy protests turned violent in France's second city of Lyon, as well as Lille, Toulouse, Nantes and Rennes.
Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande appealed for calm, warning the violence could trigger a heavy police clampdown.
'They are playing into the hands of those who want more order, who want to be tougher,' he said. 'There can be disappointment, anger, frustration, but the only way to respond is at the ballot box.'
Mr Sarkozy, the tough-talking former interior minister, is hated in the suburban housing estates packed with immigrants for calling young delinquents 'a rabble'.
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