[little jeremiah]

Un-freaking-believeable:

"In Amiens, the first city to make use of the powers, officials announced a curfew banning unaccompanied under 16-year-olds from the streets between 10pm and 6am..."

That'll do it. Trouble's over now. Good thing they're really cracking down.

[Southack]

For France, the good news is that the numbers of cars being burned is down so far tonight (13th official night of violence and burning).

But their bad news is, among other things, that the "youths" have managed to firebomb and shut down the subway in Lyons tonight.

And even with this reduced level of violence, there are still many, many times more cars being firebombed in France than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.