The French will manage to intellectualize their own demise

Three French specialists on urban violence have stated to Agence France Presse that the French youths torching buses are thrill seekers who have no specific political demands. One of them goes so far as to compare recent urban guerilla manoeuvres against public transportation targets, that have left a 26 year old woman between life and death this evening, to the film "The Bicycle Thief" where a character who has just found a job can no longer go to work because his bicycle is stolen.