France is still burning, but let's not discuss that

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Nov 4, 2006, 9:30:52 PM11/4/06

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"Now, as a 26 year-old French student burned in a Marseille bus fights
for her life, the media are remarkably discreet. Slow on the uptake,
stingy with details of this terrible crime, but also, as we discover in
retrospect, strangely silent about lesser assaults that have become the
ordinary fare of buses all over France. Suddenly we learn about the
elaborate security systems developed in this or that city, in response
to incessant attacks.

Mama Galledou suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 70% of her body
when the bus was ambushed and torched by five or seven punks in gangsta
hoods. If she survives she will live a life of pain and sorrow,
deformed, critically damaged by flames that ate deep into her body.
Born in France, raised in her native Senegal, Galledou had just
finished a degree in nutrition at the St. Jerome science college which
is situated at the end of the line of the 32 bus.

Galledou was on her way to visit cousins who live in a housing project
near the stop where the bus was ambushed. Neighbors are horrified, the
government is outraged, but they shouldn't be surprised; the
murderous outcome of bus burnings was inevitable. And the media helped
hide the fact by misreporting five previous incidents with a typical
journalistic sleight of hand."