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Europe
Paris: Police injured in clash with rioters
2007-07-07
Some 50 youts masked attackers smashed cars and clashed with police in northeast Paris on Friday night. Three officers were injured, police said. The crowd had gathered at Place Gambetta in the city's working class 20th district to honor a young man killed during a police raid last month, according to the city police department.

The group, some masked and armed with batons, then moved to the nearby Belleville neighborhood and smashed vehicles, including a police car, the police department said. Three police officers were injured in ensuing festivities clashes, which lasted about 30 minutes, it said. No arrests were immediately reported.

Tensions have remained high between police and French youth, especially minorities in rundown housing projects, since riots in 2005 that left cars ablaze in such neighborhoods nationwide. Most of that violence hit impoverished suburbs that ring French cities, while Paris was largely spared.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "French youth"?
It'd be a little more accurate to describe them as false prophet worshiping malcontents of North African/Arab descent unfettered by any sense of gratitude or decency.


Posted by: JerseyMike   2007-07-07 07:36  

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