Might Want to Cancel That Trip to France

Found by way of Little Green Footballs.

Agence France-Presse article by Marc Burleigh.

PARIS -- A gang of more than 20 youths -- thought to be North African immigrants -- terrorized hundreds of train passengers in a rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year's Day, French officials said yesterday.

The five-hour-long criminal frenzy was "totally unacceptable," French President Jacques Chirac told reporters. "Those guilty will be found and punished, as they deserve."

The gang of between 20 and 30 youths boarded the train, heading from Nice on the French Riviera to Lyon, in eastern France, early on Jan. 1, as it carried 600 passengers home from New Year's Eve partying overnight.

Once inside, they went wild, forcing passengers to hand over mobile phones and wallets, and slashing seats and breaking windows.

A 20-year-old woman cornered by several of the marauders was sexually molested.

"It was a real scene of pillage on the train," said the regional state prosecutor, Dominique Luigi, adding that the passengers were in a state of "panic."

You can't carry a concealed weapon in France, it's against the law. Now imagine such a group trying that sort of stuff in, say, Texas. Or any other state where a private citizen can go through a process to get a license to carry (I'm still waiting on mine to come back). Would have turned out very differently, no?

Update: Michelle Malkin has something to say about it, too, and links to Winds of Change, where Robin Burk asks a very good question:

I will ask what I've asked before here at Winds of Change: where is the outrage by western feminists about the rape of young women by gangs of young men coming from immigrant and at least culturally, if not actively religiously, muslim backgrounds???????

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