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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (284488)	4/18/2006 8:06:30 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572472

Wrong. Although Interior Minister Sarkozy did call immigrant youths "racaille" (not "sous-hommes"/subhuman), he acknowledged that suburb unrest is essentially a social issue, not a religious one: Rabble, riff-raff, the dregs of society, sub human.........the distinctions between those words are not all that great. And he did say he would clean the area with a Kärcher.......not a smart thing to say when almost every city in France was aflame. "As an example, responding to what the press have called the 2005 Paris riots in the banlieue of La Courneuve, he vowed to clean the area out "with a Kärcher" (nettoyer la cité au Kärcher), Kärcher being a well-known brand of pressure cleaning equipment), and referred to the troublemakers as voyous, and racaille, a slang term which can be translated into English as dregs or riff-raff." en.wikipedia.org BTW how come he didn't call the people who demonstrated/rioted last week "racaille"? Oh right, they are des Français avec bon charactere and they are personnes très blanche.