France under security alert as new Muslim riots spread
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN
Los Angeles, Alta California
November 27, 2007



A second night of rioting by Muslim immigrant youths in the suburbs north of Paris has forced the French government to issue an emergency security alert. President Nicolas Sarkozy who is presently in China has cut his trip short and will be returning to France.

French Police described the new riots as being worse than those that occurred in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005. More than 70 policemen have been injured and numerous government buildings have been burned. A police spokesman said that the French government is being "confronted with scenes of real urban guerilla warfare."

The riots were sparked when two Muslim youths in a motorcycle were killed after being rammed by a police car in Villiers-le-Bel. Early reports say that the police fled the scene and failed to provide emergency services to the teenagers. The riots spread rapidly to the nearby towns of Sarcelles, Garges-les-Gonesse, Cergy, Ermont and Goussainville were rioters were armed with assault rifles, Molotov cocktails, bottles filled with acid and baseball bats, police said. Police said that of the more than 70 officers injured so far, five were in critical condition. "One policeman was hit in the shoulder by a high-calibre bullet," said a security official.

Muslim immigrant neighborhoods in the suburbs of Paris are tinderboxes that often explode into violence in a similar way that Black ghettos and Latino barrios do in the USA. There is heinous discrimination against Muslims in France that manifests itself in extremely high unemployment rates and high incarcerations of youths. The recent election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France has worsened the situation. Before the Clichy-sous-Bois riots in 2005 Sarkozy called Muslim youths "scum". Sarkozy is of Jewish descent and extremely unsympathetic to the plight of France's Muslim immigrant communities.

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Related La Voz de Aztlan article:
The French Muslim Rebellion of 2005:
http://www.aztlan.net/french_muslim_rebellion.htm

http://www.aztlan.net/new_french_riots.htm