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Areas of rioting as of 4 November.

Départements affected by (mostly sporadic) riots as of 5 November.

The 2005 Paris suburb riots are an ongoing series of urban uprisings primarily focused near Paris which have continued for ten consecutive nights beginning on Thursday, October 27, 2005 [1], with violent clashes occurring between hundreds of young, mostly Muslim, North African immigrant youths[2] and the French Police. They were triggered by the deaths of two teenagers of African origin in Clichy-sous-Bois, a poor commune in an eastern banlieue (suburb) of Paris. The riots then spread to other parts of Seine-Saint-Denis. Additional violence has now spread to other areas of the Île-de-France région (Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Suresnes) as well as to other cities in France (Rouen, Dijon, Marseilles, and sporadic cases of arson in Toulouse, Lille and other cities) [3][4][5][6]). 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Immediate cause

Dominique de Villepin and Jean-Louis Borloo on 2 November 2005.

The riots were ignited when two teenagers living in Clichy-sous-Bois, Ziad Benna (17) and Banou Traoré (15), were electrocuted after they came into contact with a transformer in an electrical relay substation. The two were allegedly playing football, when police officers wanted to check their IDs. The teenagers ran away and climbed into the relay substation to hide. Police maintain that any involvement on their behalf ended 22 minutes prior to the accident. A third youth, a 21-year-old male, was also injured but survived. Rioting subsequently broke out after it was reported that the teenagers who died belonged to ethnic minorities in a low-income district. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links DominiquedeVillepinandJean-LouisBorloo. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links DominiquedeVillepinandJean-LouisBorloo. ... Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (born November 14, 1953, in Rabat, Morocco), simply known as Dominique de Villepin   listen?, is a French diplomat and politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jean-Louis Borloo is currently the Minister for Social Cohesion in France. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Clichy-sous-Bois, (from Roman Cleppius, 7th century Clippiacum superius, 12th century Clichiacum, formerly Clichy en Aulnois; 48°55′ N 2°33′ E) is a commune of the ÃŽle-de-France, in the eastern banlieue of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. ... Sign warning of possible electric shock hazard An electric shock may occur upon contact of a human or animal body with electricity. ... 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. ...

There is controversy over whether or not the teens were actually chased. The local prosecutor, François Molins, has said they believed so, but the police were actually after other suspects attempting to avoid an identity check [8]. Molins and the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy maintain that the dead teenagers had not been "physically pursued" by the police. This is disputed by some: The Australian reports that "Despite denials by police officials and Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. de Villepin, friends of the boys said they were being pursued by police after a false accusation of burglary and that they 'feared interrogation'" [9]. An official investigation is still under way. The entrance to the Ministry in Place Beauvau is guarded by one gendarme (to the left) and one policewoman (to the right). ... 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. ... The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...

The deaths appear to have aggravated pre-existing tensions. Protesters told the Associated Press the unrest was an expression of frustration with unemployment and police harassment in the areas. One protester said, "People are joining together to say we've had enough," and continued, "We live in ghettos. Everyone lives in fear." [10][11] The rioters' suburbs are also home to a large North African immigrant population, adding ethnic and religious tensions which many believe contribute further to such frustrations. For further discussion on the background of the conflicts, see below.

Timeline

Youths and riot police face off in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois on October 29, 2005.

• Thursday, October 27 - Rioting first began in the evening, after the deaths of Ziad Benna and Banou Traoré, whose deaths were witnessed by at least one friend. Gangs, mostly consisting of hundreds of youths, clashed with police, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at police forces and firefighters, setting cars on fire, and vandalizing buildings. A shot was reportedly fired at police. [12] Police fired tear gas at the rioters. About 27 people were detained. 23 police officers and 1 journalist were wounded. The number of rioters and bystanders injured is not known. [13]

• Friday, October 28 - Rioting continued.

• Saturday, October 29 - About 500 people took part in a silent march through Clichy-sous-Bois, in memory of the teenagers. [14] Representatives of the Muslim community appealed for calm and dignity at the procession. Marchers wore t-shirts printed with the message mort pour rien "dead for nothing". [15]

• Sunday, October 30 - A tear gas grenade was launched into the de Bousquets mosque, on what for Muslims is the holiest night of the holy month of Ramadan. Police denied responsibility but acknowledged that it was the same type used by French riot police. Speaking to 170 police officers at Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture in Bobigny (the local authority overseeing Clichy-sous-Bois), 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." Eyewitnesses also reported that police called women emerging from the mosque "whores" and other names [16].

• 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. [17]

• Tuesday, November 1 - It was reported that rioting had spread to nine other suburbs, across which 69 vehicles were torched. A total of 150 arson attacks on garbage cans, vehicles and buildings were reported. The unrest was particularly intense in Sevran, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Bondy, all in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, which is considered to be a "sensitive area of immigration and modest incomes." In Sevran, youths set fire to two rooms of a primary school, along with several cars. Three officers were slightly injured. [18] In Aulnay-sous-Bois, rioters threw Molotov cocktails at the town hall and rocks at the firehouse; police fired rubber bullets at advancing rioters. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met with the families of Ziad Benna, Banou Traoré, and the third male who was also hiding in the electrical substation. The Prime Minister expressed the "need to restore calm." [19]

• Wednesday, November 2 - Reports suggest rioters briefly stormed a police station while 177 vehicles were torched. One government official claims that live rounds were fired at riot police. Two primary schools, a post office, and a shopping centre were damaged and a large car showroom set ablaze. Police vans and cars were stoned as gangs turned on police. Rioting has now spread west-ward to the area of Hauts-de-Seine where a police station was bombarded with home-made Molotov cocktails. Jacques Chirac, the President of France, made appeals for calm, and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin held an emergency cabinet meeting. De Villepin issued a statement saying "Let's avoid stigmatising areas", an apparent rebuke to his political rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has called the rioters "scum" (racaille). [20] [21] [22]

• Thursday, November 3 - Traffic was halted on the RER B suburban commuter line which links Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport after unions called for a strike. Rioters attacked two trains overnight at the Le Blanc-Mesnil station, forced a conductor from one train and broke windows, the SNCF rail authority said. A passenger was lightly injured by broken glass. [23] For the first time the riots spread outside of Paris, spreading to Dijon with sporadic violence in Bouches-du-Rhone in the south and Rouen in the west of France. In Parliament, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin pledged again to restore order as his government has come under criticism for their failures in preventing the violence. Around one hundred firemen were called to put out a blaze at a carpet factory while twenty-seven buses were set alight also. On the night of 3 November, 500 cars were torched and arson occurred in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Neuilly-sur-Marne, Le Blanc Mesnil, and Yvelines.[24][25][26][27] [28]. Additionally, seven cars were burned in Paris [29], and others had their windows broken out near the metro station La Chapelle.

• Friday, November 4 - On Friday night, violence continued in Val d'Oise, Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis. Arson and attacks on vehicles occurred in Aubervilliers, Sarcelles, Montmagny and Persan. French police claim incidents Thursday night have diminished in intensity compared to the previous night, with only fifty vehicles set on fire [30]. Prefect Jean-François Cordet said in a statement that "contrary to the previous nights, there were fewer direct clashes with the forces of order." Siyakah Traoré, the brother of one of the two dead teenagers, called for rioters to "calm down and stop ransacking everything." [31]. On the other hand, violence spread to Lille and Toulouse for the first time [32]. Around France, 897 vehicles were torched and 170 people arrested [33]. Also reported was that a woman on crutches in her fifties was set on fire the previous Wednesday as she exited a bus; "She was rescued by the driver and hospitalized with severe burns" [34]. An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue Pierrefitte [35]. Firefighters were attacked while rescuing a sick person in Meaux.

• Saturday, November 5 - Several thousand residents of Aulnay-sous-Bois joined a march in protest against the riots, initiated by the commune's mayor, Gérard Gaudron. At noon, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met with Nicolas Sarkozy and other cabinet members. Yves Bot, public prosecutor of the city of Paris, on Europe 1 radio described the events as organized violence, well beyond spontaneously erupting riots. Bot alleged that adolescents in other cities were being incited to commence rioting via the internet. (Similar phenomena have occurred in American riots with television: the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles sparked violence in San Francisco and other cities, for example.) Bot said that the violence was directed against institutions of the Republic, but he denied it being ethnic in character. On Saturday night violence continued both within and outside Paris. In Grigny, two schools were set on fire. Another school was set on fire in Vigneux. A nursery school was burned in Acheres, west of Paris, outraging residents who demanded that the army be deployed or that a citizen's militia be formed[36]. Additional attacks occured in Avignon (Vaucluse), Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne), Soissons (Aisne), Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) and in the north at Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Mons-en-Baroeuil. Other incidents occured in Marseille, Cannes, Nice, and Toulouse.[37]. In the Normandy city of Evreux, over 50 cars, a shopping center, a post office, and two schools were burned. [38]

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Areas affected by rioting

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In the Paris region

• Seine-Saint-Denis: Aubervilliers, Epinay, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
• Yvelines: Achères, Mureaux
• Seine-et-Marne: Meaux, Torcy
• Val-de-Marne: Champigny, Ormesson-sur-Marne
• Essonne: Corbeil-Essonne, Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Brétigny-sur-Orge
• Hauts-de-Seine: Suresnes, Clamart
• Val-d'Oise: Villiers-le-Bel

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Outside of Paris and vicinity

• Aisne: Soissons
• Alpes Maritimes: Drap, Nice, Saint-André, Cannes
• Bas-Rhin: Strasbourg
• Bouches-du-Rhône: Marseille
• Côte d'Or: Dijon
• Eure: Évreux [39]
• Gironde: Bègles, Blanquefort, Bordeaux, Lormont
• Haute-Garonne: Toulouse
• Haute-Marne: Saint-Dizier
• Loire-Atlantique: Nantes
• Nord: Hem, Lille, Mons-en-Baroeul, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Wattrelos
• Oise: Méru
• Pas-de-Calais: Calais, Arras
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau
• Seine Maritime: Havre, Rouen
• Somme: Amiens
• Tarn-et-Garonne: Montauban
• Vaucluse: Avignon

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Political and police response

An official of the very minor (0,23%) Action Police CFTC police union described the riots as a "civil war", and called on the French Army to intervene. [40], [41]. This triggered answers from the the UNSA-Police union, which represents the majority of riot police, desribing the situation in less dramatic terms [42]. In response to the riots, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy stated that police officers should be armed with non-lethal weapons to combat urban violence. [43] The French government, even prior to these riots, has been equipping law enforcement forces with less-lethal weapons (such as "flash-balls" and Tasers) in order to better deal with petty delinquency and urban unrest, especially in poor suburban communities. Jump to: navigation, search A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. ... Jump to: navigation, search French soldiers of the IFOR in Mostar, 1995. ... Non-lethal force is force which is not inherently likely to kill or cause great bodily injury to a living target. ... Summary An electroshock gun or stun gun, is a weapon used for subduing a person by administering an electric shock. ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who has consistently advocated a tough approach to crime, is a major probable contender for the 2007 presidential election. Success or failure on his part in quelling violence in suburban ghettos may thus have far-ranging implications. Any action by Sarkozy is likely to be attacked by the political opposition, as well as by members of his political coalition UMP who also expect to run for the presidency. Le Monde, in a 5 November editorial [44] reminisces about the "catastrophic" elections of 2002 where right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to enter the second round of voting, showing concern that a similar situation might arise in the upcoming elections as a backlash to the riots. The 2007 presidential election will herald the first contest since Frances rejection of the European constitution in May 2005. ... Union for a Popular Movement Uridine monophosphate, cf. ... Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ... // Second Round First Round General Summary On May 1, Labour Day, the yearly demonstrations for workers rights were compounded by protests against Jean-Marie Le Pen. ... Jump to: navigation, search Portrait of Jean-Marie Le Pen. ...

After the fourth night of riots, Sarkozy declared a zero-tolerance policy towards urban violence and announced that 17 companies of riot police (C.R.S.) and 7 mobile police squadrons (escadrons de gendarmerie mobile) would be stationed in contentious Paris neighborhoods. Sarkozy has said that he believes that some of the violence may be at the instigation of organized gangs. "... All of this doesn't appear to us to be completely spontaneous," he said. [45] Undercover police officers were sent to identify "gang leaders, drug traffickers and big shots." Sarkozy's approach was criticized by left-wing politicians who called for greater public funding for housing, education, and job creation, and refraining from "dangerous demagoguery". [46] Sarkozy was further criticized after he referred to the rioters racaille and voyous [47] (translating to "scum," [48] "riff-raff," [49], "thugs," [50] or "hoodlums" [51]). A CRS officier in normal gear, standing by a Bastille Day parade The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (often abbreviated to CRS) are the riot control forces and general reserve of the French National Police. ... Jump to: navigation, search Gendarmes guarding the Paris Hall of Justice Gendarmerie motorcyclists police the roads and autoroutes of rural France. ...

During his visit to Clichy-sous-Bois, the Interior Minister was to meet with the families of the two youths killed, but when the tear gas grenade was sent into the Clichy mosque, the families pulled out of the meeting. Banou Traoré's brother Siyakah said, "There is no way we’re going to see Sarkozy, who is incompetent. What happened in the mosque is really disrespectful." [52] The families finally met Dominique de Villepin on November 3rd. Jump to: navigation, search Clichy-sous-Bois, (from Roman Cleppius, 7th century Clippiacum superius, 12th century Clichiacum, formerly Clichy en Aulnois; 48°55′ N 2°33′ E) is a commune of the ÃŽle-de-France, in the eastern banlieue of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. ...

Azouz Begag, "ministre délégué à la promotion de l'égalité des chances" (delegate minister for the promotion of equal opportunity), the ministry devoted to rooting out discrimination, made several declarations about the recent unrest, opposing himself to Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy for the latter's use of "imprecise, warlike semantics", which he says cannot help bring back calm in the affected areas. [53] Jump to: navigation, search Azouz Begag (b. ...

On November 5, several government officials suggested there was some "hidden hand" co-ordinating the rioting. Paris prosecutor Yves Bot told Europe 1 radio that "This is done in a way that gives every appearance of being coordinated." Some Aulnay-sous-Bois residents, as reported by Reuters, suspect that the riots were linked to the drug trade or even coordination by Islamic fundamentalists. [54] Meanwhile, other Aulnay-sous-Bois residents interviewed considered this unjustified. Jeremie Garrigues, 19, doubted this was the case. "If those kids had been organized, they would have done much worse -- they would have used guns and bombs against town hall and the prefecture," he argued. "Those are all politicians' theories," remarked an Algerian woman named Samia, whose main concern was how frightened her children were by the unrest. "We live here in reality." [55] Jump to: navigation, search November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... Europe 1 formely knowned as Europe n° 1 is a privately-owned radio created in 1955. ... Jump to: navigation, search Reuters Group plc is best known as a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. ... The phrase Islamic fundamentalism is primarily used in the West to describe Islamist groups. ...

Underlying causes

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History of violence in affected areas

Seine-Saint-Denis has had one of the highest violent crime rates of all French départements. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in an October 2005 interview with Le Monde that vandalism and violent crime (including hate crimes) are a matter of daily life in suburbs all over France, and claimed that so far this year 9000 police cars had been stoned, and 20 to 40 cars were torched each night.[56]. The Gendarmerie Nationale reported 2,432 vehicles torched and 12,362 incidents of urban violence in 2004.[57]. In October 2001, a synagogue in Clichy-sous-Bois was attacked with a Molotov cocktail and the same synagogue was attacked again in August 2002 [58] A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens violent force upon the victim. ... 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. ... Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ... Jump to: navigation, search Vandalism is the conspicuous defacement or destruction of a structure or symbol. ... A hate crime (bias crime), loosely defined, is a crime committed because of the perpetrators prejudices. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A synagogue or synagog (from Greek συναγωγη, transliterated sunagoge, place of assembly literally meeting, assembly) is a Jewish house of prayer and study. ... Jump to: navigation, search Clichy-sous-Bois, (from Roman Cleppius, 7th century Clippiacum superius, 12th century Clichiacum, formerly Clichy en Aulnois; 48°55′ N 2°33′ E) is a commune of the ÃŽle-de-France, in the eastern banlieue of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. ... Molotov cocktail is the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Union nationale des syndicats autonomes (UNSA) des policiers, a police work union, has suggested that recent budget cuts in the "proximity police" ("police de proximité", police units in charge for preventing crime and tensions in the "cités") should be reversed. [59]

Poverty

According to The Guardian, "the unrest has highlighted tensions between wealthy big cities and their grim ghettoised banlieues, home to immigrants from the Maghreb and West Africa who have never been fully integrated into French society and have become an underclass for whom hopelessness and discrimination are normal." The BBC described "discontent among many French youths of North African origin" and discrimination against immigrants, highlighting that "the pressure group SOS Racisme regularly highlights cases of employers discarding applicants with foreign names." [60] Jump to: navigation, search The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Jump to: navigation, search Banlieue is the French word for suburb. ... Jump to: navigation, search (see also North Africa, Tamazgha, Arab Maghreb Union, Mashreq) The Maghreb (المغرب العربي ; sometimes also rendered Moghreb), meaning western in Arabic, is the region of the continent of Africa north of the Sahara desert and west of the Nile - specifically, the modern countries of Morocco, Western Sahara (annexed... West Africa is the region of western Africa that is generally considered to include the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ...

Racial and religious tensions

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Many residents of Clichy-sous-Bois and nearby areas are first or second generation immigrants from former French colonies, and half of the suburb's population of 28,000 are under the age of 25. The Seine-Saint-Denis département has the largest Arab concentration in France (around 30%), and similarly high unemployment rates (30% in La Courneuve, 23% in Clichy-sous-Bois, rising to 50% among the youth). During the 1960s, following the French rule in Algeria, an estimated one million Arabs and Berbers from North Africa, mostly Muslims, immigrated to France. A large number of them live on the outskirts of Paris, where a so-called "white flight" has occurred, causing drastic changes in the racial, religious, and economic demographics of Parisian neighbourhoods that are now regarded as dangerous ghettos. Jump to: navigation, search Islam is the second largest religion in France, with approximately 4 to 6 million people of Islamic faith or with a Muslim cultural or ethnic background, of which an estimated 2 and 3 million people actively practice the religion. ... La Courneuve in a northern suburb of Paris, France, in the Seine Saint-Denis département. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Jump to: navigation, search // French rule in Algeria, 1830–1962 Most of Frances actions in Algeria, not least the invasion of Algiers, were propelled by contradictory impulses. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Berbers (also called Imazighen, free men, singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Jump to: navigation, search White flight is a colloquial term for the demographic trend of upper and middle class white people moving away from (predominantly non-white) inner cities, finding new homes in nearby suburbs or even moving to new locales entirely, e. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The name ghetto refers to an area where people from a given ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ...

Some sources claimed that the alleged failure of assimilation in France is evidenced by the riots; "The republican model of integration of ethnic minorities is in trouble. The young people of the suburbs are not in agreement with any aspect of this model." said Maurice Szafran, the publisher of the French magazine Marianne. [61] Jump to: navigation, search Marianne busts with features of Brigitte Bardot - Catherine Deneuve - Mireille Mathieu Marianne, a national emblem of France, is a personification of Liberty and Reason. ...

World reaction

Lybia

The leader of Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi spoke with French President Jacques Chirac by telephone and offered to help with the situation.[62] Jump to: navigation, search Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhāfī) (born circa 1942 near Sirte, Libya), has been the leader of Libya since 1969. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jacques René Chirac ▶(?), known as Jacques Chirac, (born November 29, 1932 in Paris, France) is a French politician. ...

Senegal

The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, at the time on a visit to Paris, reacted to the events by declaring that France must "dissolve the ghettos, and integrate all Africans asking to be integrated." [63] Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Senegalese people ...

UK

The BBC reports that French society's perceptions of Islam and of immigrants have alienated some French Muslims and may have been a factor in the causes of the riots; "Islam is seen as the biggest challenge to the country's secular model in the past 100 years," and the "assertiveness of French Islam is seen as a threat not just to the values of the republic, but to its very security," due to "the worldwide rise of Islamic militancy." The BBC also questioned whether such alarm is justified, citing that France's Muslim ghettos are not hotbeds of separatism and that "the suburbs are full of people desperate to integrate into the wider society". [64] This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... 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. ...

USA

Official

The United States on Friday, November 4, issued a warning to Americans traveling in France to avoid areas in and around Paris where angry protesters have set fire to buildings and cars. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the U.S. Embassy in Paris warned of rioting in parts of the capital and beyond and urged travelers to move away quickly if they encountered demonstrations. Asked to comment directly on the riots, McCormack said it was a French internal issue, but added: "Certainly, as anybody would, we mourn the loss of life in these kinds of situations. But, again, these are issues for the French people and the French government to address." [65]

Press

Robert Spencer, a conservative pundit specializing in Middle East politics and Islam, wrote in a November 4 column that "all these problems are exacerbated by the non-assimilation policy that both the French government and the Muslim population have for so long pursued: the rioters are part of a population that has never considered itself French. Nor do French officials seem able or willing to face that this is the core of their problem today. It is likely that the riots will result only in intensification of the problems that caused them: if French officials offer an accommodation to Muslims, it will probably result only in further intensification of the Islamic identity, often in its most radical manifestations, among French Muslims." [66] Jump to: navigation, search R. Spencer Robert Spencer is a writer and researcher who, starting in 2002, has written five books, seven monographs and many articles on Islam and terrorism. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ...

References

• "Chirac plea as Paris riots escalate". (Nov. 3, 2005). Associated Press.
• "Disabled Woman Set Ablaze". (Nov. 4, 2005). Sky News.
• Gecker, Jocelyn (Nov. 2, 2005). "French government in crisis mode". Associated Press.
• Gecker, Jocelyn (Nov. 2, 2005). "Seventh Day of Violence Erupts Near Paris". Associated Press.
• Heneghan, Tom (Nov. 5, 2005). "Paris seeks 'hidden hands' in riots". Reuters.
• Keaten, Jamey (Nov. 3, 2005). "French residents can only watch amid riots". Associated Press.
• "Paris Riots in Perspective". (Nov. 4, 2005). ABC News.
• "Riots spread to suburbs". (Nov. 5, 2005). New Straits Times, p. 24.
• "Youths Riot for a Second Night in Paris". (Oct. 29, 2005). ABC News.
• "The Fall of France". (Nov. 5, 2005). Paul Belien, Brussels Journal.

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Eyewitness blog reports

• Clichy-sous-bois riots: youth accuse the police
• Bellum civile ou Civil War in Paris, par Francis Moury
• Zero tolerance in Clichy-sous-bois
• November 4 : an eyewitness account
• Paris Rioting : A Digest of Francophone Blogs
• Eyewitness account by Antoine Germa

Other blog reports

• Paris is Burning: Racism and Repression Explode in Week of Uprisings

Photographs

• Yahoo! and News photos of the riot
• Reuters' map of the riot's starting point
• Pictures from the BBC

Background material

• "The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris" Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, Autumn 2002
• "The Fatherland Betrayed by The Republic" by Jean Raspail in Le Figaro magazine (France, June 17, 2004)