> Any lurkers in France? Anyone know what's going on there?
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I've been following it.
The North African community is a little tense.
Reports I heard today said the original area where the fighting broke out has quieted down, but there are smaller breakouts happening around the area.
North African/Morroccan immigrants in suburban ghettos.
It took six days for this story to make it to the top of the world news, but on the other hand, the rioting in Brixton UK never made a blip on the world's news radar screen when it was happening.
<...> The troubles were triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police whom they thought were chasing them. A third was injured but survived. Officials have said police were not pursuing the boys, aged 15 and 17.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met Tuesday with the parents of the three families who a day earlier had refused an invitation to meet the interior minister -- blamed by many for fanning anger with his tough talk and tactics.
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.
An Associated Press Television news team reported confrontations between about 20 police and 40 youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
France-Info said that about 100 fires burning in numerous suburbs of the Seine-Saint-Denis region, an area of soaring unemployment, delinquency and other urban ills. <...>
http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/11/associated-press-via-cnn-sixth-night.html