France riots erupt

Groups of French youths threw rocks and bottles at police in a Paris suburb Sunday night in violence that left 21 police officers injured, and a number of cars and stores vandalized.

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The clashes erupted after two teenagers were killed in a motorcycle crash with a police car, reminiscent of the tensions that drove countrywide riots in immigrant-heavy housing projects in 2005. Those riots were described as the worst civil unrest in France in more than 40 years.

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Sunday's violence occurred in Villiers-le-Bel, a town of public housing blocks that is home to Arab, black and white residents, just a few kilometres north of the French capital.

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A 15-year-old and 16-year-old were killed after the motorcycle they were on crashed into a patrol car. Police said the teens ignored traffic rules and weren't wearing helmets as they rode the unregistered vehicle.

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Shortly after, groups of youths threw Molotov cocktails at a nearby police station, which was almost completely burned down. They also targeted shops and torched about 15 cars, said police.

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Eight people were arrested and 21 police officers injured, said police.

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The suburbs are dominated by African and Arab immigrants and their French-born children who complain of high unemployment and racial discrimination.

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Some of the worst violence in France's history occurred two years ago when two teenagers died in an electrical substation following a police chase.

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Rioters targeted schools, hospitals, buses and cars, leaving a wake of immense material destruction that prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency and impose curfews.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy was elected earlier this year on a platform of law and order and promises to address suburban violence.

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[Gman3135]

i hate riots so much >:(

[aditwina]

this is what happens when you mess with the Islam and Arabs !!!

Just imagine what can be if you where in Israel country how difficult is to protect the people .,

If Israel is gone -You will be next (Christians) , Just remember that .

[JetMechMA]

No jobs for immigrants? Why don't they go back to where they came from? That's a no brainer.

[TheWarlock1991]

@Shootaababylone that was genius thank you for that comment

[MOMOarabe]

@Lomax0506

and you're dumb.

[Lomax0506]

@MOMOarabe

No, French people ARE NOT Africans and Arabs-they are ethnically European. If I moved to The Congo tomorrow do I automatically become a negroid? No, that can never happen because racially I am a European caucasoid.

[Lomax0506]

You can't have a first world nation filled with third world people-it's the people that make the nation. This is why Marseilles looks more like Mogadishu every day.

[TheEsotericDesi]

@SIGN666 My friend, Islam is the worse slavery than what we have under Capitalism... :-\ Islam is EVIL to the square root of 1000... :-\

[TheEsotericDesi]

Well, we can be politically correct as much as we want, but, we can't ignore the fact that majority of these crazy fuckheads were Muslims... they now know their numbers are on the rise and their asshole gene is finally kicking in... I won't be surprised if there are Muslim insurgencies in the Western Europe by 2020-2025...

[MOMOarabe]

poeple need to know that young africans and arabs, are french!! they are born there the parents lived there for decades, but france dont want them, there so much racism