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Riots break out amid celebrations in France over World Cup win

Sputnik
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:18 UTC

Two fans have reportedly died during celebrations in France after the country won the 2018 FIFA World Cup by beating Croatia 4-2 in the final.

On Sunday France secured its second World Cup championship title at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, 20 years after winning its first World Cup on home soil in 1998. Fans across the country immediately took to the streets to celebrate their national team's victory.

The nation celebrated through the night. The celebrations, however, were marred by the deaths of two fans and violence, which erupted in Paris late on Sunday.

A 50-year-old France fan broke his neck after jumping into a canal in the city of Annecy at the end of his team's World Cup winning match, The Mirror reported. Another fan was reportedly killed in a car accident, as it crashed into a tree.

Meanwhile in the middle of Paris violence broke out.

Riot police were deployed to the scene and the Champs Élysées remained closed in the early hours of Monday.

Several shops were damaged during the unrest, windows were smashed and several cars we flipped.

The police reportedly used tear gas in some areas, while the authorities shut down Metro services, trains and other transport.

Comment: Weren't all the riots and hooliganism supposed to be happening in Russia? Looks like people should be more worried about it in Europe rather than over there, despite all the media fear mongering.

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LonSabbatical · 2018-07-16T11:51:23Z

The french team that won the world cup is a good example of multiculturalism... of the 3 french players that scored, 2 are immigrant descendants. 1 of the 2 is only 19 and only the second teenager to score in a world cup final. The other teenager was Pele.

Just think about what you were doing when you were 19.

Niall · 2018-07-16T12:15:21Z

LonSabbatical That wasn't good enough for leading French lefty Caroline Fourest, who called for one of the black players to stop blessing himself with the sign of the cross before matches because it's potentially offensive to non-Christians: [Link]

HashAttack2 · 2018-07-16T12:43:45Z

LonSabbatical During the match I was trying to work out how many players had French acestors ... Giroud, Loris, Griezmann

You could call it multiculturalism, but it could also be called uniformity

Is the French winning the world cup the time to celebrate the demise of the French identity

Rowan Cocoan · 2018-07-16T14:42:47Z

LonSabbatical "Just think about what you were doing when you were 19."

Probably arguing with some 'Pre-P.C.-Type' such as you; (back then called "morons", "idiots", or, more diplomatically, simply "lacking in common-sense, IQ, and/or both.')

Me? I was competing in surfing and racquetball, getting straight 'A's in College; and many things I can't write about. (This was despite the fact that my great grandpa could talk about his days running bootleg whiskey...which was closer in time to then, than whatever the f*** I did in my college days is to now; and yet I still can't speak of it without present repercussions. (So much for American 'freedom of expression') This remains, even though it might have involved something infinitely less dangerous, such as, 'by way of example and not restriction' trafficking 'bootleg cigarettes' from Canada*

And you?

R.C.

** LM, You there?

RC

Rowan Cocoan · 2018-07-16T14:51:51Z

LonSabbatical Again, re your "Just think about what you were doing when you were 19."

Have YOU ever realized that, by the time Mozart was your age, he'd been dead for over twenty years? !

R.C.

*Credit: Tom Lehrer

RC

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-07-16T12:18:00Z

Jeezus, you're such a one-track-minded dermatology-obsessed narcissist bore, LonSabbatical. Don't you ever think about anything else? Don't bother answering that. I already know that you don't.

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-07-16T12:39:13Z

Booker T. and The MG's weren't 'multiculturalists', they were great architects, great musicians that came together in a more-or-less organic way. Humans form all sorts of different tribes, many of them temporary, for all sorts of different reasons. Some not so good, some really good....[Link]

Highland Fleet Lute · 2018-07-16T12:54:46Z

Highland Fleet Lute Green Onions....[Link]

Rowan Cocoan · 2018-07-16T14:27:54Z

Highland Fleet Lute When I commented on my youth and the naturalistic way we of that Black vs. Redneck vs. Longhaired Surfer, et al. 'pie chart' had arisen, the word I was then looking for was 'organic.'

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2018-07-16T14:23:25Z

Hell; that’s nothing! Here in AmeriKa, we have deadly riots when some baseball team (made up from players traded from their opponents) wins the AL East Championship...followed by the AL & NL Pennant games; followed by the AL vs. NL in the presumptuously named "World Series”; whereupon all AmeriKants become ‘as one’ and have a lottery to decide which will be the next country we will invade.

Our secret reporter has learned that likewise, quasi secret and hallowed human sacrificial rites are usually concurrently conducted by AmeriKa’s self-described ‘elite’ (sic); at various locations, such as, e.g., The Bohemian Grove/Bilderberg Conference; et al.

At the conclusion of the ‘World’ (sic) Series,’ the so called ‘Left/Dems’ and ‘Right/Reps’ join in a ritualistic ‘tug of war’ with each side pulling on thick ropes attached to the separate horns of a goat’s skull - just like a wishbone on a Thanksgiving Turkey - a truly descriptive national bird of AmeriKa.

Whichever side comes away with the larger piece of the skull is allowed to choose which country AmeriKa will next subvert and or invade. (Subject of course, to the veto/control of the PTB’s ‘Council of Thirteen’, where the Chairman is honorifically renamed as Judas Iscariot for the next year/season.)

Jesting. (I wish.)

R.C.

LonSabbatical · 2018-07-16T17:14:10Z

RC where did things go wrong? From straight As to what? Shouldn't you be busy at work somewhere trying to improve the world?

Rowan Cocoan · 2018-07-16T23:12:29Z

LonSabbatical From straight As to what? Earn $ for Grad School, More A's; Practice over 30 years; save the world one emergency at a time.

This is the place where I've found the most open minds.

For the third time, I re-ask you, (reposit to you), your question : What were YOU doing at age 19? Getting depressed when all the Frats and the Sororities rejected you? Doing time in Attica?

Really! Your answer? You asked it first.

R.C,.

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