Come For The Food, Stay For The Riots
You just have to understand, what you saw wasn’t rioting, it was … umm, barbecue?
The recent rioting that scarred the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, leaving about 9,000 vehicles and many suburban buildings burned, prompted a drop in tourism, Transport Minister Dominique Perben told the National Assembly.
… French officials have complained that foreign television coverage, using terms such as “Paris Burning” and “Intifada in the Suburbs”, had given a distorted picture of the unrest.
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