http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=14976
Quote:
Algerian immigrants in France on Tuesday slammed a decision by President Jacques Chirac to tackle widespread rioting by invoking an emergency law created 50 years ago to quell unrest in their homeland, calling it a "provocation".
Abdelhakim Bouziane, a 79-year-old who left his native Algeria for France after being forced to fight for the allies during World War II, said the decision to dust off the 1955 law brought back unpleasant memories.
"I never thought that they would dare to do this, it's really a provocation for those of us who lived the humiliations, the torture, the round-ups during the war of independence," he said, his eyes shining with anger.
The law, approved for use Tuesday by the French cabinet with Chirac at its head, was originally conceived to stem an insurrection in Algeria, then a colonial province of France.
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Who do these arseholes think they are? Their people are ripping the country to pieces and they moan that a state of emergency is declared? What would he call it then?
No wonder tollerance is falling.