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Rioting has taken place in Clichy-sous-Bois, a poor suburb of Paris, for five consecutive nights from Thursday, October 27th 2005. A Paris police union spokesman stated that Clichy-sous-Bois was seeing a "civil war." Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Fuel prices / Peak oil • Hurricane Beta • Irans nuclear program • Kashmir earthquake • London bombings investigation • Malawi food crisis • Niger... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Cause of riots

The unrest was sparked by the death of two teenagers of Muslim African descent, identified as Ziad Benna, 17, and Bouna Traoré, 15. The youths died of electrocution after accidentally touching a transformer in an electrical relay substation which they (and a 21 year old male who survived) climbed into while apparently fleeing police officers. [1]. The local prosecutor, Francois Molins, said that the two teenagers thought they were being chased by police, but authorities said that the police were chasing some other suspects after a reported break-in in the area. [2] [3] The French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy stated that the electrocuted teenagers had not been "physically pursued" by the police. [4] Clichy-sous-Bois has a large Muslim community, mostly immigrants from Africa. Jump to: navigation, search A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ... Jump to: navigation, search A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one electrical circuit to another by magnetic coupling but without any moving parts. ... An aerial substation A substation is the part of an electricity transmission and distribution system where voltage is transformed generally from high to low using transformers. ... The Interior Minister is a member of a Cabinet in a Government. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born January 28, 1955, in Paris, 17th arrondissement), simply known as Nicolas Sarkozy (French pronunciation â–¶(?)), is a notable French politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... // Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day...

Events

The riot appears to have begun when friends of the electrocuted youths began to attack firefighters and police who had rushed to the electrical substation to rescue the boys. [5] Later in the night, street gangs, mostly consisting of hundreds of youth, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police forces and firefighters, and set cars and buildings on fire. Shots were reportedly fired at police. [6] Police responded by firing tear gas at the rioters. About 27 people have been detained. 23 police officers and 1 journalist have been wounded. The number of rioters injured is not known. [7] Molotov cocktail is the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons. ...

On Saturday, October 29, 500 people took part in a silent march through Clichy-sous-Bois, in memory of the electrocuted youths. [8] Representatives of the Muslim community appealed for calm and dignity, at the procession.

On Sunday, October 30, a tear gernade was launched into a mosque - police did not take responsability for it but acknowledged that it was of the type used by the riot police. Speaking to 170 police officers at Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture in Bobigny (the local authority overseeing Clichy-sous-Bois), the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said, “I am, of course, available to the Imam of the Clichy mosque to let him have all the details in order to understand how and why a tear gas bomb was sent into this mosque.” Jump to: navigation, search Mosque; Aswan, Egypt. ... Bobigny is a town and commune of France, in the suburbs is of Paris, chief town of the arrondissement of the Seine-Saint-Denis. ... The Interior Minister is a member of a Cabinet in a Government. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born January 28, 1955, in Paris, 17th arrondissement), simply known as Nicolas Sarkozy (French pronunciation â–¶(?)), is a notable French politician. ...

On Monday, October 31, it was reported that the rioting had spread to Seine-Saint-Denis. In nearby Montfermeil, the municipal police garage was set on fire. Michel Thooris, an official of police trade union Action Police CFTC, described the unrest as a "civil war" and called on the French army to intervene. [9] Seine-Saint-Denis is a French département located in the Île-de-France région. ... French soldiers of the IFOR in Mostar, 1995. ...

Criminal proceedings

• Friday, October 28 - Two 25 year-old and one 27 year-old male are sentenced to 8 months in prison, with 2 months' firm imprisonment for throwing projectiles at police officers.
• Monday, October 31 - Three men were sentenced to prison.
• 5 adults to appear in a court north of Paris, 3 teenagers to appear at a childrens' court.

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Political and police action

In response to the Paris riots, the Interior Minister stated that urban violence should be countered by arming police forces with non-lethal weapons. [11] After the fourth night of rioting, the Interior Minister declared a zero tolerance policy towards urban violence and announced that 17 companies of riot police and 7 mobile police brigades would be permanently stationed in violent neighbourhoods of Paris. In addition, undercover police officers will be sent to identify “gang leaders, drug traffickers and big shots.” M Sarkozy's tough approach was met with shock by left-wing politicians who called for a more orthodox approach with public funding for housing, education, and job creation. Non-lethal force is force which is not inherently likely to kill or cause great bodily injury to a living target. ...

During his visit to Clichy-sous-Bois, the Interior Minister was to meet with the famalies of the electrocuted youth but controversy errupted when a tear gas gernade was launched into a mosque and the families pulled out of the meeting. Siyakah Traoré, brother of electrocuted youth Bouna’s Traoré, said: "There is no way we’re going to see Sarkozy, who is incompetent. What happened in the mosque is really disrespectful.” [12]

The BBC wrote that the riots illustrate that Muslims in the ghettos of Paris feel alienated due to French society's traditional values of assimilation and secularism and due to the rise of militant Islam. [13] This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Assimilation, from Latin assimilatio meaning to render similar, is used to describe various phenomena: The process of assimilating new ideas into a schema (cognitive structure). ... Jump to: navigation, search Secularism is commonly defined as the idea that religion should not interfere with or be integrated into the public affairs of a society. ... Rewrite of the Islamism article This page and Islam as a political movement were proposed (by whom?) as a replacement for Islamism which is disputed. ...

Related events

The French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, had recently reported in an interview with Le Monde that so far in 2005, 9000 police cars have been stoned and, each night, 20 to 40 cars are torched [14]. The Interior Minister is a member of a Cabinet in a Government. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born January 28, 1955, in Paris, 17th arrondissement), simply known as Nicolas Sarkozy (French pronunciation ▶(?)), is a notable French politician. ... Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ...

In October 2001, a synagogue in Clichy-sous-Bois was attacked with a Molotov cocktail. The same synagogue was attacked again in August 2002 [15] A synagogue or synagog (from Greek συναγωγη, transliterated sunagoge, place of assembly literally meeting, assembly) is a Jewish house of prayer and study. ... Molotov cocktail is the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons. ...

External Links

• Youths Riot for a Second Night in Paris (ABC News)
• 25 photos [16]
• Video [17]