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France: Algerian Football Fans Riot, Wield Chainsaws, Loot Stores
Algerian football fans in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities celebrated their soccer team’s Africa Cup of Nations win by rioting, looting stores and wielding chainsaws in a night of chaos.
Algerians poured out onto the streets following their team’s victory over Ivory Coast last night.
Police were deployed to the center of Paris to keep order as vandals threw fireworks. One video even shows...
France: 2 Killed, Mobs Riot, Flip Cars, Set Fires, Loot Stores after FIFA 2018 Win
This is what “winning” looks like in culturally enriched France which is now in total chaos with even 2 people getting killed and 3 injured during the multicultural anarchy!
From The Daily Mail:
Police forces fired tear gas as scuffles and pockets of looting broke out on the Champs-Élysées as French football celebrations in Paris soured following their sides World Cup victory over Croatia in...
935,000 displaced in Central African Republic amid ‘unprecedented’ violence
Targeted attacks against children, looting and burning of houses have been reported in the ongoing sectarian violence in Central African Republic by the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR. Hundreds of thousands have fled to refugee camps or hidden in the bush.
Violence between mostly Muslim ex-rebel Seleka members, whose leader seized power last March, and Christian vigilante groups “has pushed the number...
Protests against corruption, income inequality held in Brazil
In the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, thousands of people have demonstrated against corruption and income inequality in the country.
During the protests on Friday, demonstrators called for reshuffling of the country’s political and economic system.
Protests were also held in several other cities including Rio de Janeiro.
Angry protesters looted a major bank and national media giant Globo TV headquarters,...
Gangs Plan Hurricane Sandy Looting Spree Via Twitter
Scores of Twitter users have flooded the social networking site announcing their plans to go on looting sprees once Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, as the New York National Guard announced it would put troops on duty in Long Island to prevent such activity.
1,175 New York National Guard troops have been mobilized to “provide command and control and logistical support” in New York City, Long Island,...
Convicted TSA Agent: 'Stealing from bags is very common'
‘Too easy’: Pythias Brown said thefts from aircraft baggage were ‘commonplace’, allowed to prevail by a ‘culture’ of indifference
It was a scandal that rocked the nation – a New York Transport Security Agency security officer found guilty of stealing close to $1million worth of belongings from passenger luggage.
But according to the convicted officer, the...
3 Tons of Food Looted From Grocery Stores In Spain As Millions Struggle
As the economic and financial systems of the world rapidly approach the real possibility of total collapse, signs of what we can expect on a mass scale in the near future are beginning to appear throughout Europe.
In Spain, a country that just a few years ago was heralded as a shining example of real estate entrepreneurship, international tourism and a rising middle class, the situation is so bad...
21 civilians killed in Mogadishu fighting
A Somali government soldier maintains order as internally displaced women and their children wait for treatment at a feeding and treatment center in Mogadishu on August 26, 2011.
Twenty-one civilians have been killed and 59 others injured in attacks by men disguised as Somali troops and armed bandits in Mogadishu.
Armed men wearing uniforms of Somali Transitional Federal Government soldiers killed...
‘Flash robs’ invade Canada
On a warm July night, 40 young people swarmed an Ottawa convenience store in one of Canada’s first “flash robs.”
Close to midnight on a hot summer’s night in July, the Quickie convenience store in Ottawa’s west end was virtually empty.
The next minute, 40 or so youth descended en masse. As they marched in they grabbed everything in sight.
The next minute, like a well-oiled many-tentacled...
Riots, looting rock northern London
There were scenes of chaos in the early hours of Sunday morning as sustained looting spread from Tottenham to other nearby areas of Haringey.
Chaos reigned in London after Saturday riots over the police fatal shooting of a man as looters attacked the shops damaged during the violence across Haringey area of the city.
Officers dispersed hundreds of demonstrators who gathered outside a police station...
Wikileaks: The looting of Iraq's oil
Documents leaked by WikiLeaks on Tuesday (19) prove once again that the “war” in Iraq was a big hoax – concocted by the capitalist powers and amplified by the corporate media. They show that the British government, in collusion with the U.S., discussed the sharing of oil from the invaded country a year before the invasion. The history of the existence of weapons of mass destruction...