From the Daily Telegraph (note church arson):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/07/uparis.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/07/ixportaltop.html
More than 30 police have been injured and 1,400 vehicles set alight in the 11th night of violence in France.
About 2,300 extra officers have been drafted in
The unrest spread throughout the country in the worst night of rioting so far, with 395 people detained. A police union spokesman called recent events 'the worst since the Second World War'.
In Grigny, south of Paris, police were lured into a housing estate and attacked with pellet guns, rocks and petrol bombs. About 10 officers were injured, two seriously with pellets in the neck and legs.
Youths seized a bus in Saint-Etienne in central France, ordering passengers off and setting fire to the vehicle. The driver and one passenger were hurt.
In the eastern city of Strasbourg, rioters threw Molotov cocktails into a primary school, while in Toulouse a blazing car was pushed into a metro entrance.
At Lens in the north, a firebomb was thrown at a church. In nearby Lille, about 50 cars were torched and a Belgian television reporter was beaten up.
The violence began on October 27 with the accidental electrocution of two youths fleeing police outside Paris.
Many of those taking part in the riots are French-born citizens of Arab or African origin, and are complaining of racial discrimination.
Action Police CFTC, France's police union, urged the government to impose a curfew on the trouble-hit areas and call in the army to control the rioters.
"Nothing seems to be able to stop the civil war that spreads a bit more every day across the whole country," they said in a statement.
"The events we're living through now are without precedent since the end of the Second World War."
President Jacques Chirac has vowed to defeat the rioters and restore order to the country.
In his first public comments since the unrest began, Mr Chirac said the state was determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear".
Some 2,300 extra officers have already been drafted in to quell the riots.
One of France's largest Muslim organisations reacted to official suggestions that Islamist militants might be organising some of the protests by issuing a fatwa against the unrest.
"In Grigny, south of Paris, police were lured into a housing estate and attacked with pellet guns, rocks and petrol bombs."
Thank you for clearing something up for me. Someone insisted that they were using 'shotguns' instead of pellet guns. And while the Malitov Cocktails are lethal weapons in their own right, putting things in perspective, it appears this riot doesn't have much lethal intent against police-- yet.
"Mr Chirac said the state was determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear"."
LoL. You go, Jacques! Ha ha ha.
This is what the folks who want an end to border control and immigration law are begging for. But their immature, bleeding-heart logic prevents them from understanding this.
Welcome to the future of the U.S.A.
Perhaps Janet Reno could offer a few tips?
In his first public comments since the unrest began, Mr Chirac said the state was determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow
violence or fear".
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I wonder if all the pundits are decrying his slow response!!!