Crevette Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Worrying news... :-(--------------------------British expatriates in Brittany have been targeted in a series of attacks against foreign-owned property. Darren and Linsey Widd, who moved to France after serving with the Army in Iraq, were one of three families affected on the same night. The attacks have raised fears of a new wave of unrest in Brittany, where houses prices have risen dramatically in some areas after an influx of foreign residents and Parisian second-home owners... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2045323.ecehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/09/wbreton109.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trumpet Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 A bit too near home. I will have to double the watch and higher the redoubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Hmm, that is not pleasant ...Mel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marym2 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Is it just the papers again? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2045323.ece This was on the Matthew Wright show but did not give too much detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 The way to fight attacks like these are to ensure that your response is totally disproportionate to the original attack...ie: for every brit home attacked, you attack 10 french homes.....simple. The dis-proportinality makes their attacks pointless, and i suspect you will find they leave you alone.... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana (ex tag) Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Chief, should one apply this principle to all forms of unrest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trumpet Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 I need an elaboration on that chief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Chief used to be a commando in the Israeli army.....[8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trumpet Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 [quote user="Sunday Driver"] Chief used to be a commando in the Israeli army.....[8-)] [/quote]Is that like being a sailor in the Swiss Navy?(He really was wasn't he......gulp[+o(]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana (ex tag) Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Or a corporal in the German army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenniswitch Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Surely, that was an example of the famed dry British humor (or humour?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Roy Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 The Times report sounds like a fairly normal night in Manchester [6] - or like the attacks in Wales on holiday homes some years ago. It must have been frightening for the family though. I hope they find a more friendly area of France in which to live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monika Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 [quote user="trumpet"][quote user="Sunday Driver"] Chief used to be a commando in the Israeli army.....[8-)] [/quote]Is that like being a sailor in the Swiss Navy?(He really was wasn't he......gulp[+o(])[/quote]Well you do gain a lot of experience cruising Lake Geneva, the Rhein or Bodensee in a Patrol boat!On a more serious note: "Chief" has a typical dry sense of British Humor. They are thugs and it is hoped that these events are treated as vandalism and not blown up into something else which provides propaganda for their "cause"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana (ex tag) Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 That depends how much sympathy there is for them. Which may depend on how some Brits behave. On past form there will be a few who get the majority a bad name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trumpet Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Just settling down and now the drums have started. Bugger so much to do! Got to get the boiling oil on. Load the muskets. Double the watch. And strengthen the barricades.Its hell up here I tell you.hang on..........incoming.Its OK went overhead. Won't be long before they get the range though. Uh Oh........Now the porridge guns have started up. Enough!!!! I surrender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 These "attack" reports are full of possibles and apparentlys, like a lighted rag was "Apparently " plunged into the fuel tank of their car - just how was that achieved on an Espace, locked cap etc - and how did diesel fumes appear from the car and get into the house? Diesel does just not erupt into flames if exposed to a naked flame like petrol does, so something is not quite right here. Is it just possible that the car caught fire due to a fault and that the other attacks were not racial but just the work of common thieves. Probably were not the only houses in France trashed over the weekend so were they all racist attacks? I suspect there is more to this car fire than meets the eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Suspicious with you Ron...And was the man's home attacked because he is a Brit or is it something to do with the fact he is the owner of the local bar?Having said that though, whatever the reason, the attack was outrageous and must have been particularly frightening for the small child involved. I hope they can settle again quickly.Mel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 [quote user="Sunday Driver"]Chief used to be a commando in the Israeli army.....[8-)][/quote]You may choose to belive that, but i couldn't possibly comment... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana (ex tag) Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Chief has a problem with words today. I think he is saying he used to be a security guard at Legoland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 ....If we interpret it as racially motivated, premeditated attacks, it is NOT unrest, as unrest can generally and easily be expressed in a legally acceptable manner....if you are attacked directly, and placed in harms way, you need to respond in my opinion. If forced to respond, may it swift, brutal, decisive and overwhelming..in my opinion...and that of the israeli army..... :-))...or of course it could just in my good old british sense of humour :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 well we could exchange addresses and i will let you have first pop at my house.....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Last years 'unrest in Brittany' story turned out to be 3 demonstrators and a man dressed up as a chicken, who was English and had gone along for the laugh, as far as I remember. So I think reports of a campaign against Brits or anything similar have to be treated with a pinch of salt at this stage I agree, it must have been a very nasty experience for the bar owners...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 salt and possibly some stuffing rrussethouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana (ex tag) Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Did you have a close up and intimate knowledge of the man in the chicken suit? How can you be sure otherwise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Thinking about it, it may have been 2005, however the man in question posted his intention and later pics, on a now defunct Brittany forum.... he may have said he was working at the local chicken factory at the time.........How can I be sure of what ? That it wasn't a real chicken ?[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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