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Title: Rioting Spreads to 300 Towns in France
Source: Yahoo News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051107 ... u=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Published: Nov 7, 2005
Author: Angela Doland
Post Date: 2005-11-07 09:44:52 by Zipporah
Keywords: Rioting, Spreads, France
Views: 771
Comments: 56


A firefighter extinguishes a truck in Cenon, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, Sunday night, Nov.6, 2005 on the tenth day of unrest. Vehicles and buildings were torched by youths in largely immigrant areas began rampaging after two of their peers were electrocuted last week at a power substation while hiding from police they feared were chasing them. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

PARIS - Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.

As urban unrest spread to neighboring Belgium and possibly Germany, the French government faced growing criticism for its inability to stop the violence, despite massive police deployment and continued calls for calm.

On Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured, setting a new high for overnight arson and violence since rioting started last month, national police chief Michel Gaudin told a news conference.

Australia, Austria, Britain, Germany and Hungary advised their citizens to exercise care in France, joining the United States and Russia in warning tourists to stay away from violence-hit areas.

Alain Rahmouni, a national police spokesman, said the man who was beaten died at a hospital from injuries sustained in the attack, but he had no immediate details of the victim's age or his attacker.

The man was caught by surprise by an attacker after rushing out of his apartment building to put out a trash can fire, Rahmouni said.

Apparent copycat attacks spread outside France for the first time, with five cars torched outside Brussels' main train station, police in the Belgian capital said.

The mayhem started as an outburst of anger in suburban Paris housing projects and has fanned out nationwide among disaffected youths, mostly of Muslim or African origin, to become France's worst civil unrest in more than a decade.

Attacks overnight Sunday to Monday were reported in 274 towns, and police made 395 arrests, Gaudin said.

"This spread, with a sort of shock wave spreading across the country, shows up in the number of towns affected," Gaudin said, noting that the violence appeared to be sliding away from its flash point in the Parisian suburbs and worsening elsewhere.

It was the first time police had been injured by weapons' fire and there were signs that rioters were deliberately seeking out clashes with police, officials said.

Among the injured police, 10 were hurt by youths firing fine-grain birdshot in a late-night clash in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said. Two were hospitalized, but the injuries were not considered life-threatening. One was wounded in the neck, the other in the legs.

The unrest began Oct. 27 in the low-income Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois after the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. The youths were accidentally electrocuted as they hid from police in a power substation. They apparently thought they were being chased.

About 4,700 cars have been burned in France since the rioting began and 1,200 suspects were detained at least temporarily, Gaudin said.

The growing violence is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair — fertile terrain for crime of all sorts as well as for Muslim extremists offering frustrated youths a way out.

France, with 5 million Muslims, has the largest Islamic population in Western Europe.

President Jacques Chirac, whose government is under intense pressure to halt the violence, promised stern punishment for those behind the attacks, making his first public comments Sunday since the riots started.

"The law must have the last word," Chirac said after a security meeting with top ministers. France is determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear, and they will be arrested, judged and punished."

France's biggest Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Union for Islamic Organizations of France, issued a fatwa, or religious decree, that forbade all those "who seek divine grace from taking part in any action that blindly strikes private or public property or can harm others."

Arsonists burned two schools and a bus in the central city of Saint-Etienne and its suburbs, and two people were injured in the bus attack. Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete, he said.

In Colombes in suburban Paris, youths pelted a bus with rocks, sending a 13-month-old child to the hospital with a head injury, Hamon said, while a daycare center was burned in Saint-Maurice, another Paris suburb.

Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions.

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Associated Press writers Emmanuel Georges-Picot in Paris, Thierry Boinet in Grenoble and Jan Sliva in Strasbourg contributed to this report. (1 image)

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#23. To: Zipporah (#0)

L'Intifada!

In third world countries, rioters are shot. Peace is restored.

All I want is a statement from Israel asking the French to show restraint and not contribute to the cycle of violence.

swarthyguy  posted on  2005-11-07   17:38:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: swarthyguy (#23)

L'Intifada!

In third world countries, rioters are shot. Peace is restored.

All I want is a statement from Israel asking the French to show restraint and not contribute to the cycle of violence.

LOL!! Lotsa luck..

Hmm I wonder if this is a war on 'old' europe? Provoking the immigrants to do the dirty work for them?

Zipporah  posted on  2005-11-07   17:52:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Zipporah (#27)

IMO, they don't need much to riot. After all, the French have left them alone, creating virtually self ruling enclaves where Sharia is big - the veil on women is enforced, movies, videos, dance clubs etc have been banned, "honor" murders ignored because of "cultural" sensitivities.

And these riots and attacks on cops happened in the 90's, just not on this scale.

Now, the whirlwind.

Europeans may have to ask the Indians for advice on how to deal with a significant Muslim minority!

swarthyguy  posted on  2005-11-07   18:02:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: swarthyguy (#30)

IMO, they don't need much to riot. After all, the French have left them alone, creating virtually self ruling enclaves where Sharia is big - the veil on women is enforced, movies, videos, dance clubs etc have been banned, "honor" murders ignored because of "cultural" sensitivities.

And these riots and attacks on cops happened in the 90's, just not on this scale.

Now, the whirlwind.

Europeans may have to ask the Indians for advice on how to deal with a significant Muslim minority!

Well it seems we're headed to the same here.. remember reading about the 60s riots? Well multiply that several fold..

Zipporah  posted on  2005-11-07   20:17:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#56. To: Zipporah (#36)

There are factors why I think this won't happen here.

One, totally subjective, most of these rioters would LOVE to live here. More freedom and inclusion in society. Americans are rather amazingly tolerant.

Two, there really are no huge ghettos of Muslims here. JerseyCity, Dearborn, but the living standards don't compare at all.

Three, the illegals have no religious beef, being mainly Catholic.

The danger in America is Islamism at the HIGHEST levels, the WH, Grover, CAIR etc. And at the lowest, in the prisons, tho that may be being corrected gradually, as Salafiwahhab Saudi educated imams are hopefully being phased out.

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