French riots rage despite warning

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Updated: Sunday, 6

November 2005, 10:45 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

French

riots rage despite warning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday night's count of car burnings is the highest yet

 

 

 

France has suffered its heaviest riot damage

yet as warnings of tough prison sentences failed to deter arsonists.

Police reported 1,295 vehicle burnings and

made 312 arrests as unrest in African and Arab

communities spread to Strasbourg, Toulouse and Nantes.

On the 10th consecutive night of riots, four cars were torched

on Place de la Republique in central Paris along with others in

the central 17th District.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The northern town of Evreux in Normandy saw some of the

worst unrest overnight with at least 30 cars burned along with three shops, the

local authorities said.

A school was also petrol-bombed in the town while four police

officers were injured in clashes with youths, some of them reportedly wielding

baseball bats.

Saturday night's

violence was the worst reported to date:

 

A McDonald's

was rammed by a car and almost completely burnt out in Corbeil-Essonnes,

south of Paris

Five classrooms of a nursery

in Grigny, south of Paris,

were destroyed by fire while a primary school was also slightly damaged

A recycling facility was

attacked in the Essone area near Paris,

with 800 sq m of paper going up in flames and at least 35 vehicles torched

 

In Drancy,

north-east of Paris,

two teenagers were caught and handed over to police after they tried to

set fire to a lorry.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4411192.stm

 

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