I work in a U.S. site for a French company. Severtal of my colleagues have commented that these riots really are young people. He said that last night, when the rioters started up things in their small town, the parents came out and litterally beat the snot out of the kids for what they were doing. That ended the riots in that area real fast. The general mood over there by the average French is that heads need to be busted. No real action has been taken against the rioters for fear of being called racist. The fear in political circles is that if the police do anything big, then the Muslims will scream racism and it will inflame the situation. Hence, nothing is being done.
" No real action has been taken against the rioters for fear of being called racist."
Thanks for the on site report. Unfortunately, we can all understand the paralysis created by fears of racism charges only too well. Even in the U. S., we have never really succeeded in instituting profiling for young Muslims. Though the government denies that such profiling is prohibited, it seems that in fact, it is prohibited.