Thread: Battlezone France - New Riots

Key words: Molotov cocktails - "sensitive suburbs" - "youths with immigration background" - severely injured police officers - torched cars - attacked police station

France: Youths Attack Police Station (AP)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jeFc ... AD8T54GKO1

Riot grips Paris suburb after youths killed in police crash (AFP)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNn ... ReCzT7e6OA

Clashes, rioting in Paris suburb after youths killed in crash (Raw Story)
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Clashes_ri ... 62007.html

Whats new ? The french will be destroyed from inside out, ike most sucker nations who invite in the barbareans !

Don't feed the wild they will turn on you .

Second night of riots after Sarkozy appeal

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21982746/


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By Ben Hall in Paris

updated 30 minutes ago
French police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a second night of rioting in a northern suburb of Paris on Monday, raising fears of a repeat of the wave of unrest that swept across some of the poorest housing estates two years ago.

Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, had earlier called for calm after two teenagers were killed in a collision with a police car on Sunday, triggering an outbreak of rioting and arson.

Police and judicial authorities moved quickly to establish that the deaths of the two youths riding a mini-motorbike were the result of a traffic accident.

"I call on everyone to calm down and let the justice system decide who was responsible," Mr Sarkozy said on a visit to Beijing.

Local youths reacted furiously to the incident in Villiers-le-Bel on Sunday night, attacking police officers and firemen, and torching 28 cars and four buildings, including a car showroom and a police station.

The three weeks of riots in 2005 were similarly triggered by the death of two youths, on that occasion electrocuted after apparently being pursued by the police into an electricity substation.

The rioting in Villiers-le-Bel provided a reminder that life has changed little over the last two years for residents on many of the estates, particularly on the outskirts of the capital, which remain blighted by high unemployment, poverty, drugs and crime.

Last night, there were more disturbances as a local government official said one policeman suffered minor injuries after being shot in the shoulder by some kind of firearm. About half-a-dozen officers were injured during cat-and-mouse skirmishes with rioters.

Mr Sarkozy, who as interior minister in 2005 took a tough line against rioters, has promised an action plan for the suburbs. He appointed Fadela Amara, a popular social activist, as a junior minister to draw up the policy. Ms Amara, who still lives in a Parisian tower block, has threatened to resign if her proposals - expected soon - are not adopted.

Dominique de Villepin, prime minister during the 2005 riots, on Monday urged the authorities to learn the lessons of two years ago.

"In so-called sensitive neighbourhoods, when the mood is very heated and when there is a feeling of daily harassment, it is very important to be able to say very, very quickly exactly what happened," he said.

The inspectorate of police, which immediately launched a probe into the deaths, suggested they were not the fault of the police, a view endorsed by the local public prosecutor from evidence from eyewitnesses. But investigators were also examining if the police officers broke the law by failing to help the victims and leaving the scene of the accident.

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