Posted on 11/02/2005 4:27:04 PM PST by Flavius
PARIS, France (AP) -- Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris in a sixth night of violence as police clashed with angry youths and scores of vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said.
Police in riot gear fired rubber bullets late Tuesday at advancing gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois -- one of the worst-hit suburbs -- where 15 cars were burned, according to officials in the Seine-Saint-Denis region.
Youths lobbed Molotov cocktails at an annex to the town hall and threw stones at the firehouse. It was not immediately clear whether there were injuries from the clashes.
Four people were arrested for throwing stones at police in nearby Bondy where 14 cars were burned, the prefecture said. A fire engulfed a carpet store, but it was not immediately clear whether the blaze was linked to the suburban unrest.
Officials gave an initial count of 69 vehicles torched in nine suburbs across the Seine-Saint-Denis region that arcs Paris on the north and northeast.
The area, home mainly to families of immigrant origin, often from Muslim North Africa, is marked by soaring unemployment and delinquency. Anger and despair thrive in the tall cinder-block towers and long "bars" that typically make up housing projects in France.
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" 669 C.E"
huh?
669 C.E. (Common Era) is the year that Muslims completed their conquest of North Africa. Since then, immigrants from North Africa to Europe would have been overwhelmingly muslim.
I asked "Is Paris Burning?" at 8 pm last night.
Today EVERY radio and cable news b'cast is asking it.
Looks like the rioting has spread to TWENTY towns now.
France, get a backbone and start DEPORTING!!
BTT
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