Pantalon de Menteur de Menteur sur le Feu

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, is how you say… a belette menteuse de merde.

While admitting that there had been “severe social unrest”, Villepin said the violence was on a far smaller scale than during the Los Angeles riots, in which 54 people died and some 2,000 were wounded.

“I’m not sure you can call them riots. It’s very different from the situation you have known in 1992 in LA for example,”

Well, that’s true. Those riots only lasted three days and encompassed one town. France’s riots lasted for weeks and spread to more than 300 communities.

But it gets better.

“In France during the two-week period of unrest, nobody died. So I think you can’t compare this social unrest with any kind of riots.”

The violence resulted in more than 9,000 cars being burned and more than 100 public buildings set alight. But Villepin stressed that “there were no guns in the streets.”

Unless you count this fatality and these guns.

Rioting in France claimed its first fatality on Monday, and the French government, facing growing criticism for its inability to stop the unrest, said it would send additional police officers to troubled communities and permit local authorities to impose mandatory curfews….

Nearly a dozen riot police officers were wounded by gunshots overnight Sunday as youths burned 1,408 cars in 274 towns in the worst urban unrest faced by France in nearly 40 years.

A 61-year-old man beaten last week into a coma by a hooded youth died on Monday, becoming the first fatality of the violence that has gripped the impoverished immigrant suburbs that lie outside cities across France.

The victim was identified as Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, who died after being beaten by an attacker.

Do you get the feeling that perhaps France isn’t quite ready to deal with the problem on their hands? It’s been three weeks and already the government is rewriting history. Heck, they’re not rewriting history, they’re rewriting current events!