NYTimes:
In French Suburbs, Same Rage, but New Tactics-
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
PARIS, Nov. 27 — Two years after France’s immigrant suburbs exploded in rage, the rituals and acts of resentment have reappeared with an eerie sameness: roving gangs clashing with riot police forces, the government appealing for calm, residents complaining that they are ignored.
And while the scale of the unrest of the past few days does not yet compare with the three-week convulsion in hundreds of suburbs and towns in 2005, a chilling new factor makes it, in some sense, more menacing. The onetime rock throwers and car burners have taken up hunting shotguns and turned them on the police.
FOXNews :
Nov. 27: Young residents of Villiers-le-Bel, a northern Paris suburb, vandalize an abandoned police car during clashes.
PARIS — One of the victims of a moped crash that sparked days if rioting in a Paris suburb presented himself on his blog as a confident teenager who love his mother and was looking for a girlfriend, Reuters reported.
The current riots were triggered by the deaths of two teens killed in a crash with a police patrol car on Sunday in Villiers-le-Bel, a blue-collar town in Paris' northern suburbs.
Residents claimed that officers left the crash scene without helping the teens, whose motorbike collided with the car. Officials cast doubt on the claim, but the internal police oversight agency was investigating.
