This shows a worry for New Years Eve......
granny
"France warned of more flare-ups rooted in urban insecurity"
France warned of more flare-ups rooted in urban insecurity Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday December 8, 2005 The Guardian
French intelligence warned yesterday that the urban unrest that saw more than
3,000 youths, mainly from immigrant communities, arrested and nearly 10,000 cars
go up in flames could arise again at the slightest provocation.
In a report leaked to the French press, the agency Renseignements Généraux,
the intelligence service for the police, said the violence, which hit 274 French
towns and housing estates, was neither organised nor manipulated but amounted to
"urban insurrection".
The report warns that "any new chance event (the death of a youth) will spark a
new outbreak of generalised violence". Even the festivities of New Year's Eve
"risk being particularly sensitive" this year.
The unrest began on October 27 after the accidental electrocution of two boys
apparently hiding from the police at an electricity sub-station in
Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris. Other poor, heavily immigrant suburbs around the
capital erupted, followed by cities countrywide.
The report, extracts of which were published in yesterday's Parisien, puts the
total damage at more than €250m (£170m).
The agency said it had found no evidence that radical Islamists inspired the
unrest. The rioters' main motivation was "their social condition, excluded from
French society". Some suburbs had become "veritable urban ghettos of an ethnic
nature". France, meanwhile, was more concerned with the rise of Islamic
radicalism and religious terror, and had neglected the suburbs' "complex
problems". The difficulties included extreme social segregation, above-average
unemployment and a strong sense of insecurity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1661734,00.html
There, I fixed it.