Youths torched 900 vehicles, a nursery school and other targets in areas outside of the poor neighborhoods of northeast Paris with large immigrant populations. The violence hit far-flung corners of France on Saturday, from Rouen in Normandy to Bordeaux in the southwest to Strasbourg near the German border.
Police deployed a helicopter and small teams of officers to chase down youths who sped from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes. The new security tactics yielded more than 250 arrests during the ninth straight night of unrest.
THE VIOLENCE:
Triggered by an outburst of fury over the accidental electrocution of two teenagers, the unrest has taken on unprecedented scope and intensity it started on since Oct. 27.
Most rioting has been in towns with low-income housing projects where unemployment and distrust of police run high. But in a new development, arsonists were moving beyond their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with less security, said a national police spokesman, Patrick Hamon.
Their government lied to them! Their Newspapers lied to them! They lied to themselves. Europe, time to WAKE UP!