FRANCE: Scenes in Les Mureaux , Paris, 10th night of violence in France has police on alert.
Record ID:
261594
FRANCE: Scenes in Les Mureaux , Paris, 10th night of violence in France has police on alert.
- Title: FRANCE: Scenes in Les Mureaux , Paris, 10th night of violence in France has police on alert.
- Date: 6th November 2005
- Summary: VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE IN STREET OF ESTATE
- Embargoed: 21st November 2005 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: France
- Country: France
- Topics: Police
- Reuters ID: LVA4WFS8V3R2FR11S7ZA1D8TKMDA
- Story Text: French riot police were on alert on Saturday night (November 5), as violence broke out for the 10th night in a row. Schools were torched and more than 600 cars set on fire in cities across France, the Interior Ministry said. Police ranks were beefed up across France and in several Paris suburbs as the continuing violence put added pressure on the government to act quickly. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin also summoned eight key ministers and a top Muslim official to his offices on Saturday as he sought to chart an end to the violence. In Saturday night's rioting, police said 607 vehicles were set alight, with more than half outside the Paris region. Two schools were set ablaze in the Paris suburb of Essonne, but no one was reported hurt, the Interior Ministry said. The violence has been seen as the expression of pent-up anger by youths, many Muslims of North African and black African origin, at police treatment, racism, unemployment and their marginal place in French society.
- Copyright Holder: REUTERS
- Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2014. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
- Usage Terms/Restrictions: None