Have The B B C Got A Paris Correspondent, Does Anyone Know?

[Samjenko]

The reason I ask is that immigrants have been wrecking the place for a fortnight, yet I haven't heard it mentioned on the Beeb.

[anotheoldgit]

mushroom25

My wife and I have stayed at a hotel in Saint-Denis, yet it was both quiet and enjoyable and saw nothing to be wary of, even travelling back and forward into the city of Paris every day.

[Togo]

//You asked if the BBC had a Paris correspondent. You're been given an answer.//

So we now know the name of the BBC correspondent that is being handsomely paid via the licence "tax" rip off and obviously failing to do the job we expect her to do. Lucy Williamson.

[-Talbot-]

Looks suspiciously like the BBC got there during the calm after the storm.

I keep telling you , mikey if you want to know what is happening in the world buy yourself a remote control that doesn't start and end @ 001

[Samjenko]

Sorry, Fiction. I happened to be listening to this morning's BBC News when I posted the question, as you would have known if you bothered reading anything I said.
I can't watch every channel at the same time but I'll take your word for it that Sky haven't mentioned the riots. Again, I ask why?

[Samjenko]

Incidentally, I knew they had a correspondent. Indeed, they probably have a dozens of them, replete with BBC credit cards, in swanky Paris office.
What I was, rather facetiously, asking was, do they ever bother looking out of the window?

[Zacs-Master]

I can't find a reference to the riots being caused by immigrants.

[Togo]

//There have recently been a number of violent demonstrations against the police in the suburbs of Saint Denis to the north of Paris. On 15 February 2017, related demonstrations in north-eastern Paris also turned violent. Be vigilant and take extra care if you’re in the area. Follow police advice and stay well away from any protests.
There is a high threat from terrorism. Due to ongoing threats to France by Islamist terrorist groups, and recent French military intervention against Daesh (formerly referred to as ISIL), the French government has warned the public to be especially vigilant and has reinforced its security measures.
The French government has extended the national state of emergency until 15 July 2017. Check the French government’s advice about what to do if a terrorist attack occurs.//

From the link provided for foreign travel advice.

[fiction-factory]

The BBC News programmes have been too busy recently showing footage of queues in hospitals and interviewing people in A&E/waiting for beds and letting spokesmen for the BMA/nurses/ambulancemen saying the NHS need more money. There's been little time left for stories of a bit of trouble in Paris.

[-Talbot-]

A picture paints a thousand words.

[Togo]

Don't forget the Trump fixation FF, bordering on voyeurism.

[Zacs-Master]

Immigrants.....? Anyone?

[fiction-factory]

Must be, Zac- the youtube clip says so.

[mushroom25]

here's the front page of LCI, who provide the news service for France TV channel TF1:-
http://www.lci.fr/
note (below the top political stories) that unrest in North of Paris gets several entries, but all appear to be associated with what the press are calling "Affaire Theo", in which a community worker was assaulted by the insertion of a police baton. very little suggestion that any of this involves immigrants, per-se, although LCI did cover action by the Paris authorities earlier in the week, where boulders were placed on traffic islands to prevent encampments.

[-Talbot-]

It's a video FF. What you can do with videos is ignore the text and watch the video, then you can make up your own mind about what is or isn't going on. ... yeah radical stuff I know but there you go.

Me personally ... I have on this occasion ruled out the troublesome French farmers.

[Togo]

I don't think it's the fishermen either Talbot, although some were shouting what sounded like Halibut at bar.

[Samjenko]

What strange malady afflicts some that live in a constant state of denial?

[sp1814]

samjenko

Perhaps we've misunderstood your question. Are you saying that the BBC has not reported the riots in its bulletins on tv and radio?

I'd understand your point if that's what you meant, but its on their website and it was on the national news about five days ago.

And is it really fair to attack just the BBC?

Have the riots been reported more extensively on other news outlets?

[-Talbot-]

This could be total *** but here's my opinion.

These rioters (because that is what they are) are a mixture of migrants and disgruntled citizens from the Paris suburbs (many of whom are children of migrants)
Why are the the citizens disgruntled?
economic segregation?
Institutional racism?

Possibly, probably.
What they need in these concentrated areas of poverty is more migrants ... that'll fix it.

Because lets be honest these new migrants will end up in these already troubled areas ... they will not be housed anywhere near the French equivalent of Gary Lineker, Lily Allen or Bob Geldof.

[-Talbot-]

Have the riots been reported more extensively on other news outlets?


Yes, sp.
I flick through all the news channels and I have seen far more coverage on Al Jazeera, France 24 etc.

[Jackdaw33]

It's 10 years since I was last in Paris, where I used to spend a week or so every year. I always wanted to visit the Basilique de St Denis but never summoned up the courage. I remember someone telling me to get off the Metro at Place de Clichy; any further and I would be in bandit country.