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AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state. Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants. Police deployed for a feared eighth night of clashes, after bands of youths lobbing stones and petrol bombs ignored President Jacques Chirac's appeal for calm a day...

PARIS - Dozens of vehicles were set ablaze in a sixth night of rioting in poor Paris suburbs, officials said on Wednesday, as youth unrest caused mounting strains within France’s conservative government. A heavy police presence kept a tense order in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the clashes broke out last week after two teenagers of African origin were electrocuted while apparently fleeing the police.

PARIS, Nov. 2 -- Clashes between angry youths and French police spread to at least six Paris suburbs Tuesday night, with police firing tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at street fighters who lobbed Molotov cocktails and burned cars and trash bins...

 13 Arrested In Paris Suburb Riots     Night Number Six of Paris Riots    Unrest spreads to nine French towns  http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/02/france.riots.ap/index.html  Riots erupt in more Paris suburbs    Violence spreads around capital (Froggy violence Alert!!)      Riots expose France's fault lines    Selective Muslim Silence      France is Burning (Muslims burn Paris; MSM ignores it to protect Religion of Peace)     Potential Hot Spots: France Is Burning (Europe's multiculturalism fail & going down in flames)    France defends policies after riot (Finally admitting Muslims are rioting)    Several days of Muslim Riots in Denmark (Not only in...

Rioting has spread to more suburbs of Paris on a sixth night of unrest in the outskirts of the French capital.At Aulnay-sous-Bois, cars were torched as gangs of youths hurled stones at police in riot gear, who responded by firing rubber bullets. But the epicentre of the trouble, Clichy-sous-Bois, was said to be calm, with a heavy police presence. The unrest was sparked by the death of two boys whom locals think were fleeing police, despite official denials. Correspondents say anger has been fuelled by a tear gas canister hurled into the town's mosque on Sunday night, and arrests. French...

Youths torched cars, set garbage bins alight and threw stones at police in a fifth night of rioting in a Paris suburb, and set two primary school classrooms on fire as rioting spread to two other suburban towns... Suburbs that ring France's big cities suffer soaring unemployment and are home to immigrant communities, often from Muslim North Africa. Sarkozy says violence in the suburbs is a daily fact of life, with dozens of cars torched each night and underground economies of crime. In incidents apparently unrelated to the riots near Paris, youths set fire to an empty building and trash...

Sixth night of riots in Paris Minister accused of inflaming tensions PARIS, France (AP) -- Violence erupted for a sixth night Tuesday in the troubled suburbs northeast of Paris with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas as they faced down gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois, according to witnesses. A store set afire in the nearby suburb of Bondy, France-Info radio reported. No trouble was immediately reported in Clichy-sous-Bois, where rioting began last Thursday following the accidental deaths of two teenagers. The latest violence broke out as Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris with youths and officials from Clichy-sous-Bois....

November 1, 2005: France is burning. For most of the last week, there have been nasty riots in the Parisian suburb of St Denis, complete with fires and many casualties. This area is home to about 500,000 Moslems. Many largely Moslem suburbs of Paris, and other large cities, have become no-go zones for the police, and anyone who is not of Middle Eastern origin. Over the last three decades, generous social benefits and immigration policies have left France with a Moslem population of some five million (about eight percent of the population.) High rise housing for them was built on...

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...

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday defended his tough crime policies against claims they helped increase tension after a fourth night of rioting in a Paris suburb in which tear gas was fired into a mosque. It was not clear who had fired the tear gas and Sarkozy, addressing police officers, vowed to find out what had happened. Youths hurled rocks and set fire to cars in the northeastern Clichy-sous-Bois suburb of the French capital, where many immigrants and poor families live in high-rise housing estates notorious for youth violence. French television said six police officers were hurt ---SNIP---

Fires of 'civil war' erupt in Paris Police in street battles after two teenagers die in chase Jason Burke in Paris Sunday October 30, 2005 The Observer (UK) Hundreds of French youths fought with police and set cars ablaze in a northern Paris suburb early yesterday morning in a second successive night of rioting. The disorder was triggered last week when two teenagers were electrocuted and killed in a local substation while fleeing from police. French authorities insist they were running away from officers investigating a break-in, but people in Clichy-sous-Bois claim that the dead youths had committed no crime....

Nine youths are being held by French police following a third night of unrest in a Paris suburb. A spokesman for the local authority in Clichy-sous-Bois said the youths had been throwing missiles and petrol bombs, and 15 cars were set on fire.Three hundred police officers in mobile units are on patrol in the town, which has a large immigrant population. The violence began on Thursday after the deaths of two local teenagers said to have been fleeing police. The authorities deny that officers were chasing the boys, who were electrocuted after entering an electricity sub-station. March Saturday saw hundreds...

The Dangers of Multiculturalism...On the sixth night of revolting in Paris, violence spread from the initial flashpoint of Clichy-sous-Bois into a host of other areas in the north and east of the city.Scores of vehicles were burned by angry youths, most from disaffected north African communities.

MIDI - I LOVE PARIS Why do Muslims all love Paris...someday we will own the place We've been busy procreating...while we're hating We are laughing as it's burning...they are squirming Why do Muslims all love Paris...'cause the French run from a fight Allah Akbar...we'll be chanting Allah Akbar We love flags that are white

Six nights of riots in Paris ghetto split Chirac cabinet By Henry Samuel in Clichy-sous-Bois(Filed: 03/11/2005) The French government was reeling yesterday after six nights of rioting which have exposed a split in the cabinet over how to deal with poverty and immigration in the dilapidated Paris suburbs. As authorities cleaned up the debris of another bout of violence, including the wrecks of 250 cars burned out on Tuesday night, both the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, put off foreign trips to deal with the rioting. Youths on the Paris estates have promised ‘40...

Pressure mounted on French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government to move quickly to restore order as violence broke out in the suburbs of Paris for the seventh night running. The French government leader canceled a trip to Canada yesterday to tackle the spreading unrest in areas with large African and Muslim populations, and to quell a damaging dispute among his ministers over how to respond. Last night, youths went on a rampage in nine areas in poor suburbs ringing the French capital to the north and the east, setting on fire about 40 cars, two buses and trash cans,...

BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) - Rioters shot at police and fire crews in the worst night in a week of violence in poor Paris suburbs, as France's conservative government struggled to respond to the unrest. Youths rampaged in nine poor suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. "It's a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we fear that the events could even get worse tonight," said Francis Masanet, secretary general of the UNSA police...

Paris riots spread throughout north-east Posted at 8:20pm on 3 Nov 2005 Violence broke out in impoverished Paris suburbs for the seventh straight night, with rioters clashing with police and leaving a trail of torched cars and vandalised buildings. Observers are pointing to France's failure to address deep problems of poverty and immigration, including tensions with its Muslim minority. In Aulnay-sous-Bois in the worst-affected area of Seine-Saint-Denis, a police station was briefly besieged by gangs of youths while a gymnasium and a garage were set ablaze and a commercial centre vandalised. A total of 40 vehicles, including two buses, were...

PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of youths clashed with police overnight and shots were reportedly fired at police... ...shotgun blasts had been fired at police in the Courneuve district, where youths showered police and fire-fighters with stones, bottles and paving stones. ``It's a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we fear that the events could even get worse tonight,'' said Francis Masanet... ``When I hear some people say that the presence of police can be provocative for some people, if the presence of police provokes some people, I know a lot of others who are delighted that the police and...