...conspiring minds want to know. *** http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/29/france.riots.reut/ Second night of rioting in Paris Saturday, October 29, 2005 Posted: 1143 GMT (1943 HKT) A police union spokesman says a Paris suburb is seeing "civil war. What Is This? PARIS, France (Reuters) -- Hundreds of French youths fought with police and set cars ablaze in a suburb of Paris early Saturday in a second night of rioting which media said was triggered when two teenagers died fleeing police. The two teenagers were killed and a third seriously injured on Thursday night when they were electrocuted in an electricity sub station as they fled from police investigating a break-in, media reported. Firefighters intervened around 40 times on Friday night in the northeastern suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois where many of the 28,000 residents are immigrants, mainly from Africa, police and fire officers said. Unidentified youths fired a shot at police but no one was hurt, police said. A police trade union called for help from the army to support police officers. "There's a civil war underway in Clichy-Sous-Bois at the moment," Michel Thooris, an official of police trade union Action Police CFTC, said . "We can no longer withstand this situation on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoretical training for street fighting," he said. Television pictures showed youths lobbing stones at police officers while cars burned on the streets of the suburb. Police in riot gear chased some youths down an alleyway. Around 19 people were detained and 15 police officers and one journalist injured, police said. They were unable to give figures for the number of protesters hurt. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who announced a crackdown on urban violence this month, said the youths who climbed into the electricity sub station were not being chased by police. He said police were pursuing other youths after an attempted break-in. Pursuit On Thursday night, youths set cars and garbage cans ablaze and attacked shops and a fire station. Officials said 23 vehicles, including some post office delivery trucks, were set ablaze and destroyed in the protests. A silent march in honor of the two dead teenagers was taking place on Saturday morning in Clichy-Sous-Bois, a suburb of high-rise social housing. Sarkozy, whose law and order policies have been criticized by human rights groups, launched a new offensive against crime this month, ordering specially trained police to tackle 25 tough neighborhoods in cities across France. Sarkozy, who has clearly stated his ambition to run for president in 2007, said police mobile units would patrol districts instead of having police waiting around in coaches while trouble erupted elsewhere. The tough talking Sarkozy made his name by cutting headline crime figures during his first stint as interior minister from 2002 to 2004.
He's my uncle . By the way, the riots in Paris continue. I guess the Arab street finally erupts in anti-Americanism. Of course, this raises the question of how ya gonna keep 'em down on the madrasa once they've seen gay Pa-ree burning.
