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'''William Luther Pierce''' ([[1933]]–[[2002]]) was an associate of the [[American Nazi Party]] (ANP), founder of the [[white supremacist]], [[neo-Nazi]] [[National Alliance]] and one of the most prominent ideologues of the [[white nationalist]] movement. Educated as a [[physics|physicist]], he rose to prominence in the white separatist movement following the assassination of [[George Lincoln Rockwell]], the original founder of the ANP. [http://www.heretical.com/miscella/hbarrett.html] He gained fame and notoriety as the author of ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'', which he wrote under the pseudonym ''Andrew Macdonald''. Pierce is also the author of the novel ''[[Hunter (novel)|Hunter]]''. He founded the religion of Cosmotheism, an admixture of [[pantheism]] and [[racism|racialist]] views.

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[[Image:Strasbourg torched car.jpg|thumb|A car burns in [[Strasbourg]], [[France]] on the night of [[November 5]] as riots spread from the Paris banlieues to other parts of the country. Photo credit: François Schnell.]]

The following is a '''timeline of the [[2005 French civil unrest]]''' that began Thursday, October 27, 2005. Where the source lists events as occuring in a night and following morning, this article lists them on the date of the night, not the following morning. The extent table in the main article does the opposite.

==Background and education==

Pierce was born on [[September 11]] [[1933]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], and graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from [[Rice University]] in [[1951]]. He worked at the [[Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory]] before attending graduate school, first at [[Caltech]] and then the [[University of Colorado, at Boulder]], where he earned his [[Ph.D.]] in [[1962]].

<!-- Discuss in Discussion first to justify putting this back. * Wendesday [[October 21]] - French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy[http://http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19243562.htm] announced a crackdown on urban violence and black marketeers on Wednesday, ordering specially trained police to tackle 25 tough neighbourhoods across the country. Sarkozy, who has clearly stated his ambition to run for president in 2007, also announced plans to combat violence in football stadiums, including greater use of video surveillance and bans on hooligans caught on film. "This ... is a totally new strategy to push back urban violence and make life possible in a certain number of neighbourhoods where trafficking and the underground economy have infected daily life," Sarkozy said at the launch of his new initiative. "We absolutely have to re-establish a foothold in these neighbourhoods and obtain results," he said. -->

==The Turner Diaries==

After earning his Ph.D., he soon lost interest in physics and joined various white nationalist groups, forming his own group, the [[National Alliance]], in [[1974]]. Pierce came to public attention following the [[Oklahoma City bombing]]. The perpetrator, [[Timothy McVeigh]], was alleged to have been influenced by ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'' ([[1978]]), a novel written by Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. The book is a graphically violent depiction of a future race war in the United States as told through the perspective of Earl Turner, an active member of the [[white separatist]] revolutionary underground. Early on, the book's main character is put in charge of bombing the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] headquarters. Some have drawn parallels from the book to the actual bombing strikingly similar to the [[Oklahoma City bombing]] that destroyed the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] and killed 168 people in [[1995]]. Although ''The Turner Diaries'' was originally only available by mail order and at special events (events where booths could be easily reserved for independent sellers, such as [[gun]] shows), it is believed to have sold half a million copies.

===First week===

''The Turner Diaries'' is also believed to have been the inspiration behind a small group of militant white nationalists in the early [[1980s]] who called themselves the ''[[Brüder Schweigen]]'', or sometimes simply ''The Order''. The Order was connected to numerous crimes, including counterfeiting and bank robbery. The Order's leader, [[Robert Jay Matthews]], died in a shoot out with police and federal agents on [[Whidbey Island]] in [[Washington]]. Other Order members, most notably [[David Lane]], were captured and sent to federal prisons, where they continue to voice their support for white nationalism.

* '''Thursday, [[October 27]]''' - 1st night of rioting

Other titles by Pierce include ''Hunter'' ([[1984]]), which reads more like a survival manual for individual militants than a blueprint for revolution, and ''New World Order Comix # 1:The Saga of White Will!!'' ([[1993]]), which is directed at white youth.

** Gangs, mostly consisting of hundreds of youths, clashed with police, throwing rocks and [[Molotov cocktail]]s at police forces and firefighters, setting cars on fire, and vandalizing buildings. A shot was reportedly fired at police. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051030/wl_afp/franceriotpolice_051030022906]

** Police fired [[tear gas]] at the rioters. About 27 people were detained. 17 police officers and 3 journalists were wounded. The number of rioters and bystanders injured is not known.[http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/31/news/france.php]<br>

* '''Friday, [[October 28]]''' - 2nd night of rioting

==Cosmotheism==

** Rioters in Clichy-sous-Bois apparently set more than 30 cars alight and made barricades of those cars, along with dustbins, which firefighters worked to clear away.

Pierce adopted ''Cosmotheism'' as his religion in [[1978]]. In effect it is a form of [[panentheism]], a belief that God is the animating force within the universe. Moreover, Pierce's salutation of the "[[Odic force|life principle]]" adumbrates the Christian [[Logos]], his professed [[agnosticism]] notwithstanding.

** At least 200 riot police and crowds of young rioters clashed in on-and-off, running battles, on the night of the 28th and the early morning of the 29th. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1604595,00.html]

* '''Saturday, [[October 29]]''' - 3rd night of rioting

Cosmotheism asserts that "all is within God and God is within all." It considers the nature of reality and of existence to be mutable and destined to co-evolve towards a complete "universal consciousness," or godhood. ''Cosmos'' means an orderly and harmonious universe and thus the divine is tantamount to reality and consciousness, an inseparable part of an orderly, harmonious, and whole universal system.

** About 500 people took part in a silent march through Clichy-sous-Bois, in memory of the teenagers. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4388536.stm] Representatives of the Muslim community appealed for calm and dignity at the procession. Marchers wore [[t-shirt]]s printed with the message ''mort pour rien'' <!-- sic, the singular--> "dead for nothing". [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051029/wl_afp/franceriotpolice]

* '''Sunday, [[October 30]]''' - 4th night of rioting

In his speech "Our Cause", Pierce said:

** A tear gas grenade was launched into the [[mosque]] of the Cité des Bousquets, on what for Muslims is the holiest night of the holy month of [[Ramadan]]. Police denied responsibility but acknowledged that it was the same type used by French riot police. Speaking to 170 police officers at Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture in [[Bobigny]] (the local authority overseeing Clichy-sous-Bois), Nicolas Sarkozy said, "I am, of course, available to the Imam of the Clichy mosque to let him have all the details in order to understand how and why a tear gas bomb was sent into this mosque." Eyewitnesses also reported that police called women emerging from the mosque "whores" and other names [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/327207.html].

* '''Monday, [[October 31]]''' - 5th night of rioting

:''"All we require is that you share with us a commitment to the simple, but great, truth which I have explained to you here, that you understand that you are a part of the whole, which is the creator, that you understand that your purpose, the purpose of mankind and the purpose of every other part of creation, is the creator's purpose, that this purpose is the never-ending ascent of the path of creation, the path of life symbolized by our life rune, that you understand that this path leads ever upward toward the creator's self-realization, and that the destiny of those who follow this path is godhood."''

** It was reported that the rioting had spread to other parts of [[Seine-Saint-Denis]]. In nearby [[Montfermeil]], the municipal police garage was set on fire.

** Michel Thooris, an official of police trade union Action Police CFTC (who only represents a minority of the police civil servants), described the unrest as a "civil war" and called on the [[French Army]] to intervene. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1604595,00.html]

* '''Tuesday, [[November 1]]''' - 6th night of rioting

His interpretation of cosmotheism developed from several disparate sources: interpretations of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s play ''[[Man and Superman]]''; strains of [[German Romanticism]]; [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] concepts of [[natural selection]] and of survival of the fittest, mixed with the related early [[20th century]] [[eugenics|eugenic]] ideals; and [[Ernst Haeckel]]'s version of [[monism]].

** Rioting had spread to nine other suburbs, across which 69 vehicles were torched. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html]

** A total of 150 [[arson]] attacks on garbage cans, vehicles and buildings were reported. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html]

** The unrest was particularly intense in [[Sevran]], [[Aulnay-sous-Bois]] and [[Bondy]], all in the [[Seine-Saint-Denis]] region, which is considered to be a "sensitive area of immigration and modest incomes."

** In Sevran, youths set fire to two rooms of a primary school, along with several cars. Three officers were slightly injured. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/11/01/international/i093631S93.DTL]

** In Aulnay-sous-Bois, rioters threw [[Molotov cocktails]] at the [[town hall]] and rocks at the firehouse; police fired [[rubber bullet]]s at advancing rioters. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html]

** Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy refers to rioters as "scum" [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110100833.html]

** [[Prime Minister of France| French Prime Minister]] [[Dominique de Villepin]] "met Tuesday with the parents of the three families, promising a full investigation of the deaths and insisting on 'the need to restore calm,' the prime minister's office said." [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html]

* '''Wednesday, [[November 2]]''' - 7th night of rioting

Pierce described his form of panentheism as being based on "[t]he idea of an evolutionary universe ... with an evolution toward ever higher and higher states of self-consciousness," and his political ideas were centered on racial purity and [[eugenics]] as the means of advancing the [[white race]] first towards a superhuman state, and then towards godhood. In his view, the white race represented the pinnacle of human evolution thus far and therefore should be kept genetically separate from all other races in order to achieve its destined perfection in Godhood.

** Reports suggest rioters briefly stormed a police station while 78 vehicles were torched.

** One government official claims that live rounds were fired at riot police.

** Two primary schools, a post office, and a shopping centre were damaged and a large car showroom set ablaze.

** Police vans and cars were stoned as gangs turned on police.

** Rioting had spread west-ward to the area of [[Hauts-de-Seine]] where a police station was bombarded with home-made [[Molotov Cocktail|Molotov cocktails]].

** [[Jacques Chirac]], the [[President of France]], made appeals for calm, and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin held an emergency cabinet meeting. De Villepin issued a statement saying "Let's avoid stigmatising areas", an apparent rebuke to his political rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has called the rioters "scum" (''racaille''). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4401670.stm] [http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1059355.php/Paris_riots_lay_bare_deeper_problems] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5389430,00.html]. <!-- Globaly, on the thursday night 315 ??? vehicles were torched. -->

** A woman on crutches in her fifties, Joëlle M., was doused with petrol in [[Sevran|Sevran-Beaudotes]] and set on fire as she exited a bus; "She was rescued by the driver (Mohammed Tadjer) and hospitalized with severe burns" [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051104/D8DLUT50B.html] [http://www.lefigaro.fr/societe/20051105.FIG0004.html]

=== Second week ===

Pierce believed in a hierarchical society governed by what he saw as the essential principles of nature, including the survival of the fittest. In his social schema, the best-adapted genetic stock, which he believed to be the [[white race]], should remain separated from other races; and within an all-white society, the most fit individuals should lead the rest. He thought that extensive programs of "racial cleansing" and of [[eugenics]], both in Europe and in the U.S., would be necessary to achieve this socio-political program.

* '''Thursday, [[November 3]]''' - 8th night of rioting

==National Alliance==

** Traffic was halted on the [[RER]] B suburban commuter line which links Paris to [[Charles de Gaulle airport]] after unions called for a strike.

The [[National Alliance]] which he founded was to be the political vanguard and the spiritual priesthood of this program, which was designed ultimately to bring about a "white racial redemption". His Cosmotheist Community Church, which was to be the next step of this plan, was set up in the mid-1970s, alongside Pierce's other political projects - the National Alliance, National Vanguard Books, and the weekly broadcast ''American Dissident Voices'' - all from his mountain retreat headquarters in [[Mill Point, West Virginia]].

** Rioters attacked two trains overnight at the Le Blanc-Mesnil station, forced a conductor from one train and broke windows, the [[SNCF]] rail authority said. A passenger was lightly injured by broken glass. [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1277178]

** For the first time the riots spread outside of [[Paris]], spreading to [[Dijon]] with sporadic violence in [[Bouches-du-Rhone]] in the south and [[Rouen]] in the north-west of France.

** In Parliament, de Villepin pledged again to restore order as his government has come under criticism for its failure to prevent the violence.

** Around 1000 [[firemen]] were called to put out a blaze at a carpet factory while twenty-seven buses were set alight.

** 500 cars were torched and arson occurred in [[Aulnay-sous-Bois]], [[Neuilly-sur-Marne]], [[Le Blanc Mesnil]], and [[Yvelines]].[http://www.20minutes.fr/journal/recherche/pop_article.php?ida=63803&mot=Chirac][http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051104/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting][http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4405620.stm][http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1104/p06s02-woeu.html] [http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.OBS4153.html]. Additionally, 7 were burned in Paris [http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.FAP3932.html?1733], and others had their windows broken out near the metro station La Chapelle. Nationally, 593 vehicles were torched Thursday.

* '''Friday night, [[November 4]]''' - 9th night of rioting

Pierce's views have been characterized as a version of early twentieth century racial anthropology, but driven by spiritual, as well as scientific, beliefs. This area of his belief was likely influenced by his early association with [[George Lincoln Rockwell]]'s [[American Nazi Party]]. Others have noted the German Romantic roots that Pierce's ideas shared with [[Nazism]] and have observed similarities between the two ideologies: Pierce's plan for white divinity was similar to [[Adolf Hitler]]'s vision for the ''[[Master race|Herrenvolk]]''; also, his attacks against Jews as parasites on white society, who would prevent the white race from reaching its destined godhood by replacing the white elite with their own kind, echoed previous Nazi descriptions of Jewish traits and character (source: [[http://www.natall.com/who-rules-america/]]).

** Violence continued in Val d'Oise, Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis. Arson and attacks on vehicles occurred in [[Aubervilliers]], [[Sarcelles]], [[Montmagny]] and [[Persan]].

** French police claim incidents Thursday night have diminished in intensity compared to the previous night, with only fifty vehicles set on fire [http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Uneasy+calm+in+Paris&id=80881]. Prefect Jean-François Cordet said in a statement that "contrary to the previous nights, there were fewer direct clashes with the forces of order."

** "Traore's brother, Siyakah Traore, called for protesters to 'calm down and stop ransacking everything.'" [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174533,00.html].

** Violence spread to [[Lille]] and [[Toulouse]] for the first time [http://fr.news.yahoo.com/04112005/5/nouveaux-incidents-dans-les-banlieues-autour-de-paris.html].

* '''Saturday, [[November 5]]'''

Other criticisms have been harsher; for example, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] has characterized Pierce's religion as "an unsuccessful tax dodge". One defence against this has been that it is in fact a successful tax dodge. Pierce won from the IRS in court at least 60 acres (243,000 m&sup2;) of tax exempt status land for his own Cosmotheist Community Church, out of the total 346 acres (1.4 km&sup2;) that he had owned in Mill Point, WV, near Hillsboro, WV, USA.

** Day

The other 286 acres (1.2 km&sup2;) or portions of land were for both the National Alliance Political Organization HQ and for some other buildings related to his National Vanguard Books business and warehouse and for its office and their other buildings which were not ruled Tax Exempt. Source:[[http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:yx33CW_g_QoJ:www.adl.org/explosion_of_hate/history.asp+Tax+Exempt+Status+for+Cosmotheist+Community+Church+Land&hl=en]]

*** Police reported the discovery of a bomb making factory for producing gasoline bombs inside of a derelict building in Evry, south of Paris, raising questions on the possibility of planning well in advance of the riots. Six minors have been arrested.

*** Several thousand residents of [[Aulnay-sous-Bois]] joined a march in protest against the riots, initiated by the commune's mayor, Gérard Gaudron.

*** At noon, Prime Minister [[Dominique de Villepin]] met with Nicolas Sarkozy and other cabinet members.

*** [[Yves Bot]], public prosecutor of the city of Paris, on Europe 1 radio described the events as organized violence[http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2005/11/07/4203.shtml], well beyond spontaneously erupting riots. Bot alleged that adolescents in other cities were being incited to commence rioting via the internet, saying that the violence was directed against institutions of the Republic, but he denied it being ethnic in character.

** Night - 10th night of rioting

*** Around France, 897 vehicles were torched and 170 people arrested [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051105/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting].

*** An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue [[Pierrefitte]] [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051105/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting].

*** Firefighters were attacked while rescuing a sick person in [[Meaux]].

*** Violence continued both within and outside Paris. In [[Grigny]], two schools were set on fire.

*** Another school was set on fire in [[Vigneux-sur-Seine|Vigneux]].

*** A [[nursery school]] was burned in Achères, west of Paris, outraging residents who demanded that the [[French Army]] be deployed or that a citizens [[militia]] be formed[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051105/D8DMKAVGC.html].

*** In [[Torcy]], close to [[Disneyland Paris]], rioters set fire to a police station and a youth center. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174670,00.html]

*** Additional attacks occured in [[Avignon]] ([[Vaucluse]]), [[Saint-Dizier]] ([[Haute-Marne]]), [[Soissons]] ([[Aisne]]), [[Nantes]] ([[Loire-Atlantique]]), [[Montauban]] ([[Tarn-et-Garonne]]) and in the north at [[Lille]], [[Roubaix]], [[Tourcoing]], [[Mons-en-Baroeuil]]. Other incidents occured in [[Cannes]], [[Nice]], and [[Toulouse]].[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-05T122759Z_01_KNE228332_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-RIOTS.xml&archived=False].

*** In the Normandy city of [[Evreux]], over 50 cars, a shopping center, a post office, and two schools were burned. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051106/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting]. 253 people were arrested.

* '''Sunday [[November 6]]'''

==Final years==

** Morning

Pierce spent his final years in relative seclusion in West Virginia, where he hosted a weekly radio show, ''American Dissident Voices'' and oversaw his publishing and record companies ([[Resistance Records]]) devoted to the promotion of his [[white nationalist]] political ideology and Cosmotheist religion. He died of cancer on [[July 23]] [[2002]].

*** Cars torched in central Paris for the first time, in the historic [[IIIe arrondissement|third district]]. There, citizens urged for the [[French Army]] to be deployed.

*** The total number of vehicles torched during the night is estimated at 1,295, the highest number so far. 193 people were arrested. An extra 2,300 police were drafted. [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-06T095801Z_01_KNE228332_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-RIOTS.xml].

*** In broad daylight on Sunday, a [[Belgian]] [[RTBF]] news crew was physically assaulted in [[Lille]], injuring a cameraman.

*** A [[Korean]] female journalist from [[KBS]] TV was knocked unconscious with repeated punches and kicks to her face and head in [[Aubervilliers]] [http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=1&key=2005110709]

*** As of Sunday morning, tenth night, the total number of people arrested since [[October 27]] surpassed 800, and the total number of vehicles set on fire is estimated to be around 3,500. [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-707066@51-704172,0.html] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=aQWVkcTQYxgo&refer=germany]

** Night - 11th night of rioting

*** Rioters fired [[buckshot|large-caliber]] ammunition from pistols and hunting rifles in the southern Parisian suburb of [[Grigny]], injuring 34 policemen, three of them seriously. [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6727FE6C-C8E3-491A-B272-A902E3F3F500.htm][http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/international/europe/07france.html?ei=5094&en=5e569e209f289296&hp=&ex=1131339600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print] Two of them are reported to have been hit in the head. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FRANCE_RIOTING?SITE=CAANG&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&SECTION=HOME] [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-707134,0.html] The shots ended at 8:30 pm; according to a journaliste of ''[[Le Monde]]'' and several social workers, this might be related to the beginning of the [[soccer]] match [[PSG]]-[[AS Monaco]] (''[[France Inter]]'', Nov. 7)

*** For the first time, [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[church]]es have been attacked with [[Molotov cocktail]]s in [[Liévin]] and [[Lens, Pas-de-Calais|Lens]] in [[Pas-de-Calais]] and [[Sète]] in [[Hérault]].

*** 1408 vehicles have been torched during the night (982 vehicles were burned outside Paris), and 395 people were arrested. [http://www.standaard.be/Kanaal/Index.aspx?kanaalid=62&artikelId=DMF07112005_003] A Polish tourbus parked in [[Alfortville]] waiting to return a group of vacationers to [[Poland]] was one of the vehicles that were destroyed. [http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/1190950,12,item.html]

***In the first incident outside France, five cars were torched in [[Saint-Gilles, Belgium|Saint-Gillis]], [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]].[http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_138112.html]

***German police suspects that the torching of five vehicles in Berlin may potentially be connected to the rioting in Paris suburbs. [http://de.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-11-07T100158Z_01_MAI736114_RTRDEOC_0_DEUTSCHLAND-KRIMINALITAET-AUTOS.xml]. Similar incidents have been registered in [[Bremen (city)|Bremen]].

* '''Monday [[November 7]]'''

** Day

*** A 61-year-old man, [[Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec]], a former [[Renault]] employee, died in the hospital because of the injuries sustained after being beaten when he went to check on a garbage can fire in the suburb of Stains. He succumbed to his injuries, becoming the first death caused by the riots.[http://www.nu.nl/news/621550/20/Eerste_dode_door_rellen_in_Franse_buitenwijken.html] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4413250.stm] [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-riots7nov07,0,2240109.story?coll=la-home-headlines] According to a witness, Jean-Jacques was 'deliberately assasinated'.

*** Rioter Moussa Diallo is quoted as saying: "This is just the beginning. It's not going to end until there are two policemen dead." [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/international/europe/07france.html?th&emc=th]

*** Eric Raoult, mayor of [[Raincy]], which is one of the cities hit by the riots, has imposed a [[curfew]] on people younger than 15-years-old from 1 am to dawn [http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=161770722&p=y6y77y4z8].

*** [[France 3]] has decided to stop revealing the toll of the riots and the number of cars torched in order to not inflame the situation. [http://info.france2.fr/violences-banlieues/15475641-fr.php]

*** Three French blog participants have been arrested for provoking the violence. [http://fr.news.yahoo.com/07112005/290/trois-arrestations-pour-incitation-a-l-emeute-sur-blog.html]

*** Jewish religious leaders in France report they have been advised by the government not to discuss their fears publicly in order to avoid further anti-Semitic attacks.[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3165579,00.html]

*** The [[Union of French Islamic Organizations]] (UOIF) issued a [[fatwa]] condemning the violence [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/06/france.riots.fatwa.reut/index.html]

*** De Villepin on the [[TF1]] television channel announced the deployment of 18,000 police, supported by a 1,500 strong reserve. [http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=257451&rel_no=1&back_url=][http://www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/acteurs/interventions_premier_ministre_9/dans_les_medias_497/intervention_premier_ministre_journal_54327.html].

** Night - 12th night of rioting

*** Police said that violence in Seine-Saint-Denis was still simmering, but the situation was calmer than in the previous nights, with three times fewer calls to the fire services, but violence continued in the province. [http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/11/08/afx2323455.html]

*** In [[Toulouse]], some 50 rioters stopped and torched a bus and ordered the driver to get out, hurling firebombs and other objects as police arrived [http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2005/11/07/ap/headlines/d8dnrhk8a.txt]

*** Two schools were torched in [[Lille|Lille Sud]] and in [[Bruay-sur-Escaut]] near the city of [[Valenciennes]]. A gymnasium was burned in [[Villepinte]].

*** Additional violence and vandalism in eastern France in [[Alsace]], [[Lorraine]] and [[Franche-Comté]]. Violence in [[Toulouse]], [[Strasbourg]], [[Moselle]], and [[Doubs]].[http://today.reuters.fr/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-11-07T222825Z_01_CHE769341_RTRIDST_0_OFRTP-FRANCE-BANLIEUES-TOULOUSE-20051107.XML]

*** 1173 vehicles have been burned. [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-706693,36-707655@51-704172,0.html]

*** Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced that, starting on Wednesday, "wherever it is necessary, prefects will be able to impose a curfew". No army intervention is being planned [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1289530].

* '''Tuesday [[November 8]]'''

** Day

***The Belgian TV-station [[VTM]] reports that a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a schools bicycle parking during class hours, and that their reporters had been attacked on the scene.

***President [[Jacques Chirac]] declares a [[state of emergency]] following an emergency session of his cabinet, and the re-activation of a [[1955]] law enacted during the [[Algerian War of Independence|Algerian war]], allowing local authorities to impose curfews, beginning on Tuesday, 12 PM, with an initial 12-day limit.

** Night - 13th night of rioting

***Protestant church in [[Meulan]] attacked. [http://trans.voila.fr/voila?systran_lp=fr_en&systran_f=1131462231&systran_id=Voila-fr&systran_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.france-echos.com%2Factualite.php%3Fcle%3D7610]

***Youths threw firebombs at police and set cars ablaze in suburb of [[Toulouse]]. Dozens of youths set fire to at least 10 cars and threw objects at police. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08333103.htm]

*** As of midnight [[Central European Time]], the [[France|French Republic]] is placed under a [[State of Emergency]]. The cities of [[Orléans]] and [[Amiens]] imposed curfews on minors below 16 years of age.

*** More than 500 cars had been torched by 0400 (0300GMT), police said. Around 200 people were arrested. Police said the levels of violence across the country were lower than the previous night. The suburbs of Paris were relatively calm, with few isolated cases of arson, and a dozen arrests. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4419770.stm]

*** Public transport in [[Lyons]] was shut down after a Molotov cocktail hit a train station.

*** In [[Bordeaux]], a Molotov cocktail hit a gas-powered bus.

* '''Wednesday [[November 9]]'''

** Day

*** French businesses are worried that the cost of the past 13 nights of rioting that has swept the country could go beyond clean-up to hurt investment and consumer confidence going into the all-important winter shopping season. Concerns about the violence helped push the [[euro]] to two-year lows against the [[US dollar]] as companies postpone investment in some of the affected areas, potential tourists watch neighborhoods burn on television and the stakes increase the longer the riots continue.[http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DP4A101.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_up&chan=db]

*** [[Daniel Feurtet]], the [[communist]] mayor of the riot-hit [[Blanc-Mesnil]] district, threatened to quit. "If the prefect decides to impose a curfew in one of our areas, I'll hand in my resignation right away," he told [[Le Monde]] newspaper, referring to the regional government officials empowered to impose curfews.[http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=uri:2005-11-09T184759Z_01_RID944016_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-RIOTS-1.xml&pageNumber=1&summit=]

*** Interior minister [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] has ordered the expulsion of all foreigners convicted of taking part in the riots that have swept France for 13 nights. He told parliament 120 foreigners had been found guilty of involvement and would be deported without delay.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4422422.stm]

** Night - 14th night of rioting

==See also==

*[[Nazi mysticism]]

*[[Esoteric Hitlerism]]

*[[Vril]]

*[[Creativity Movement]]

*[[Eugenics]]

[[Category:Timelines]]

==References==

[[Category:History of France]]

[[Category:History of Paris]]

*''Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism'', by Mattias Gardell (ISBN 0822330717)

[[Category:Riots|Paris suburb riots, 2005]]

*''The Turner Diaries and Cosmotheism: William Pierce's Theology of Revolution'', by Brad Whitsel; published in ''Nova Religio'' Vol.1, No.2, April 1998.

[[Category:Seine-Saint-Denis]]

*''The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds'' (biography of William Pierce), by Robert S. Griffin, 2001 (ISBN 0759609330) [http://www.solargeneral.com/library/famedeadmansdeeds.pdf online text (large PDF)]

*[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=31 Review of ''The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds''] (Southern Poverty Law Center)

*[http://www.natall.com/free-speech/ Archive of Pierce speeches]

*[http://www.nationalvanguard.org/bsearch.php?author=Dr.%20William%20L.%20Pierce News articles by Pierce]

==External links==

*[http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/usanazis/cosmotheism.html ''The Turner Diaries and Cosmotheism: William Pierce's Theology of Revolution''] by Brad Whitsel (''Nova Religio'')

*[http://www.pantheist-index.net/Distortions_Aberrations/Hugenholtz.html ''A Blemish on the Blossom: Pantheism and White-Supremacist Hate Groups''] by Esther Hugenholtz (''Pantheist Index'')

*[http://www.natvan.com/ Website of the National Alliance]

*[http://www.nationalvanguard.org/ National Vanguard News Portal]

*[http://www.solargeneral.com/library/TurnerDiaries.pdf Text of ''The Turner Diaries''] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]] file)

*[http://www.diacritica.com/sobaka/dossier/pierce.html Critical biography of William Pierce]

*[http://www.churchofcosmotheism.org/Home.html Cosmotheism Community Church]

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