Neo-con/fascist provocateurs behind French riots? (update)

November 7, 2005 -- As predicted in yesterday's WMR, youth rioting has now spread across the French border for the first time. Cars were set ablaze at the main Gare du Midi train station in Brussels and in a working class district of Berlin. And, the French rioting has resulted in the first fatality -- a man was beaten to death by rioters north of Paris as he was trying to put out a trash can blaze.

Also for the first time, churches were the targets for arsonists in Lens and Sete in France. A McDonald's was burned to the ground in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris.

Update: Rioting has spread to two more French cities: Mulhouse and Colmar. Because the coordinated planning and incremental increase in violence in France has all the markings of a major neo-con provocation, in the same manner that Italian fascists conducted terrorist bombings in Italy in the 1970s and 80s with U.S. support, there are fears that other cities in Europe that are governed by leftists will also soon experience rioting prompted by neo-con agents provocateurs who may be paying drug dealers, unemployed teens, and gang members to carry out attacks. Particularly tense are Rome, led by leftist Mayor Walter Veltroni; London, which is led by leftist Labor Mayor Ken Livingstone; Berlin, governed by Social Democratic Mayor Klaus Wowerweit (Berlin has already experienced car bombings); Brussels, led by Socialist Mayor Freddy Thielemans (Brussels has also experienced fire bombings of cars); Vienna, led by Socialist Mayor Michael Haupl; Munich led by Social Democrat Christian Ude; Turin governed by Communist Mayor Sergio Chiamparino; and Barcelona, led by Socialist Mayor Joan Clos. All these cities have significant Asian and African immigrant populations.