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06. Nov 2005

God morgen, ghetto

 
Her en uge efter de lokale optøjer brød ud, har tre ud af seks forretninger i Rosenhøj fået deres vinduer smadret her til morgen: Kiosken, pizzariaet og bageren. Grønthandleren, bingohallen og værsthuset er intakte ...

Det er næppe meget andet end, hvad der ellers kunne ske en glad lørdag aften, men tager sig naturligvis lidt anderledes ud i lyset af sidste uges begivenheder. Hvad der mere konkret er sket, aner jeg ikke - medierne har ikke noget om det, og jeg har (endnu) ikke talt med nogen, der var udenfor i går aftes.

Her kan man se et glimrende, kort indslag fra TV2-Østjylland i går, hvor man foreslår at man her i den sydlige del af byen sætter gang i projekter, der svarer til dem, man har haft succes med i Gellerup og Bispehaven. Som en af de medvirkende i indslaget spørger: Hvor svært kan det være at ringe til Århus Vest for at spørge, hvilke tiltag man har har gode erfaringer med?

Skulle nogen på den anden side få lyst til at sammenligne med urolighederne i Frankrig, iler jeg med at bringe lidt perspektiv:
One 16 yr. old Somali jailed for throwing a rock through the window of a bakery (jailed because the stone almost hit the baker). 5 police squad cars were dispatched to break up “30 to 40 youth” smashing the windows in the bakery.

Some firemen were threatened and insisted on police escort before they would progress to cover up the bakery’s broken windows. The night before some other shops were vandalised according to the baker. Somewhere in the story there’s a 19 yr. old Palestinian as well. Now before we all scream “we’re victims of jihad” there are some things that should be added to the story:

The Somali boy is apparently a well known pot smoker, with several charges of misdemeanours. The reason he stated for attacking the baker was that he “was a jerk who refused to sell cakes to us out of the backdoor at night”. Two police dogs were apparently enough to scatter the “30 to 40 youth”. The bakery was open for business the next day despite the attacks. Alas not much jihad there I suppose.

This is not to say that the whole incident is not a bad thing, but there’s no religious motives I could find. Not much rioting either.

The whole thing can be boiled down to some troubled youth that did some stupid things.

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