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Fifth night of unrest in Paris suburb
Sify ^ | Nov. 1, 2005 | AFP
Posted on 10/31/2005 9:59:08 PM PST by FairOpinion
Clichy-sous-Bois (France): Police fired tear gas canisters and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials said on Tuesday had also spread to neighbouring towns.
The local prefecture said that the levels of violence in the troubled suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois were lower than on previous nights.
However, 12 people were arrested in the town, which has a large Muslim community, during a night in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a police station and 11 cars and trashcans were torched.
Tensions have been running high between police and gangs of youths in Clichy-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris, since the accidental death by electrocution last Thursday of two teenagers.
Many of the youths targeting police were angry at the deaths of two youths, aged 15 and 19, who were electrocuted after they scaled the wall of an electrical relay station and touched a transformer.
The local public prosecutor, Francois Molins, said the boys thought police was chasing them, but authorities denied that was the case.
The launching of a tear gas grenade at a mosque late on Sunday threatened to further escalate the troubles.
Police fired more tear gas overnight on Monday to disperse around 100 youths involved in a standoff with some 50 officers near the mosque.
In another worrying development, Monday night was the first time that the unrest was reported to have spread to neighbouring areas of the Seine-Saint-Denis region abutting Paris.
Just after midnight in nearby Montfermeil, the municipal police garage was set ablaze and two cars destroyed, a prefecture spokesman said.
Elsewhere in the towns of Sevran and Aulnay-sous-Bois police were subjected to "stone-throwing" gangs but there were no injuries, according to the local prefecture. Small fires were also lit in the towns.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy—who has implemented hard-line urban security policies in his bid to be a conservative candidate in France's 2007 presidential elections—visited the administrative headquarters responsible for the suburb.
Sarkozy, who is also leader of France's ruling UMP party, vowed to wage a "war without mercy" on crime in the Paris suburbs just a week before the rampages.
The minister said Clichy-sous-Bois and the surrounding area would be the first to try out his latest initiative: cameras on police patrol cars to capture suspects' actions.
Asked about the tear gas grenade at the mosque, he admitted that it was of the type used by anti-riot police, but cautioned "that does not mean that it was fired by a police officer."
The families of the two boys killed snubbed Sarkozy's invitation to meet with them, and called the tear gas incident "disrespectful".
"We are asking for calm, we are asking for justice and we are asking for the riot police to leave," Siyakah Traore, brother of one of the victims, told a press conference at the mosque.
Among those detained since Thursday were four minors, who were to be brought before a children's court judge on Tuesday.
Another magistrate on Monday ordered three young men to jail for two months.
Boy, you are quick! :)
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"Several days of Muslim Riots in Denmark (Not only in France)"
Jyllands Posten ^ | Offentliggjort 31. oktober 2005 03:00 | Af ERIK THOMLE
Posted on 10/31/2005 11:42:54 PM PST by Eurotwit
>> Fifth night of unrest in Paris suburb <<
It's still amazes me. I haven't heard one signle word about this on the LSM (Lame Stream Media).
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/01/france.riots.ap/index.html
AP
"Sixth night of riots in Paris"
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 Posted: 2330 GMT (0730 HKT)