The intifada intensifies

Symbols of the French state French state, including policemen, firemen and postmen, are under intensified attack from disaffected youths as the country faces the worst race relations crisis in its history.

Hardly a night passes without gangs — many of them from immigrant families — attacking police cars, buses and emergency rescue teams.

Yesterday, the weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur published a confidential report drawn up by a public service trade union, the CGT, containing scores of eye-witness accounts of brutal attacks on public servants who work in the worst suburbs, or "banlieues", from gas board workers to staff from the electricity company.

Its publication follows the revelation that attacks on police have soared this year, with some 14 a day, and a growing number of incidents in which officers have been lured into ambushes.

This has prompted a warning that the day France witnesses the lynching of a policeman is not far off.

The CGT report painted a graphic picture of violence: blocks of cement dropped on paramedic crews; washing machines pushed off balconies on to fire engines; electricity company agents too scared to cut off customers who have not paid bills, after being attacked with knives, guns and fists.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and favourite to be the Centre-Right candidate for the French presidency next year, said the violence, which left scores of businesses in ruins and nearly 10,000 cars burned, was above all "territorial". Gangs were trying to seize control of a piece of territory, "and rule it by force", Mr Sarkozy said in an interview with Le Point magazine.

If I was the leader of France and a policeman was lynched that would be an official declaration of war for me. I would blockade the areas affected then send my air force in during about 8pm when it is dark and the lights are still on and just bomb them for 2 hours. They wanted a war, they can have one then.

There would be refugees of course that would flood out because they wouldn’t want to be killed. Those that rush out would be held in holding camps indefinitely. Those that stay will have their electricity and gas cut off with nothing going in for 2 weeks so that means no food. The army would then be sent in to restore order if it needed to be restored and round up everyone still living there and taking them to the holding camps.

Those in the holding camps would be told they can leave whenever they want but cannot live in France anymore. Those that choose to live outside of France can leave. They will be taken to the airport after being quickly investigated and put on a flight.

Those that choose to stay will face a lengthy investigation to see if they had taken part in any criminal activity. If there isn’t anything found they will be let go.

That is an extreme policy but those immigrants seem to think they can do anything they want. France is not the cesspool that they or their parents came from. If they want to act like animals they should be sent to the jungle.