More on the "French riot organization" meme

From Yahoo via the AFP:

...for the first time since the troubles first erupted on Thursday of last week, there were sporadic signs of copycat rampages elsewhere in France. Police said several cars in the eastern city of Dijon were set alight.

The rioting was a direct challenge to the authority of the French government and to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in particular.

Villepin on Thursday vowed before parliament that authorities "will not give in" to the violence and would make restoring order their "absolute top priority".

"I will not allow organised gangs to make the law in the suburbs," he declared.

Staying out of Iraq purchased the French Government a few years of peace from their Muslim minorities and the near eternal hatred of Americans. But that's changing and I don't think they have the mettle to handle this.

Cheese eating surrender monkeys? M. Chirac's government will fall.