Elsewhere on the web - Post of the Day 2 - Utopia?

Anna Raccoon tells the tale of Utopia, Villeneuve in Grenoble, which is now anything but utopian. Here's an extended extract but do go and read the whole article:

'3 weeks ago, there was an armed robbery at a Casino in a nearby town. Karim Boudouda, a 27 year old of North African descent, allegedly one of the robbers, was killed in an exchange of gun fire after he opened fire on the police.

The Maghreb ‘Mafia’ didn’t take kindly to one of their sons being killed by a police force whose legitimacy they do not recognise. The town of Villeneuve exploded in an orgy of ‘car-B-ques’ and rioting youths. During the riots, the registration numbers, addresses, and telephone numbers of some of the local riot police, were stencilled on walls all over town, accompanied by an exhortation to ‘kill them’. Evidence was posted in the town of the possession by the Maghreb youth of a rocket launcher.

The police were forced to withdraw all the resident police, their wives and children, and replace them with elite CRS police from other departments, so seriously was the threat taken. The police station was surrounded by sandbags and barbed wire. Patrolling police wore ‘Robocop’ type headgear to protect their identity. Helicopters constantly patrol overhead. It is more like a warzone than a French city.

Only one of the suspects came from Villeneuve, the other hailed from the notorious suburb of Saint-Denis in Paris. Residents there were awoken at 2am by the sound of automatic gunfire thudding into the walls of their apartments – not the police trying to arrest someone, but fired from cars in the street in an effort to impress the neighbourhood that it was the drug dealers who controlled these streets, not the police.'

Sounds pleasant? Did you notice any coverage on the BBC of these riots so close to us? No, the BBC have to concentrate on villyfying Israel, attacking the Conservatives, promoting the global warming agenda and reporting every twist and turn of Naomi Campbell's evidence.

This great social experiment in France seems dead, how long before the larger social experiment in the UK falls apart? 30 years, 20 years, 10 years or sooner?