More riots in Paree
Ah, the fun never stops:
Around 100 youths armed with sticks and baseball bats clashed with police in a Paris suburb early Tuesday, in the worst such violence since the riots of last November, police said.
Youths attacked the mayor's home in Montfermeil, east of Paris, at around 10:30pm Monday, shaking its gates and hurling stones at the windows before facing off with police who responded with rubber bullets.
Youths also attacked the town hall, shattering its glass facade with stones and throwing Molotov cocktails which failed to ignite, and set fire to four cars and a large number of garbage bins.
Some 250 police officers were deployed to tackle the violence as it spread to the nearby Bosquets housing estate, where gangs of masked youths clashed with police for more than four hours.
Seven police officers were slightly injured by projectiles and three youths arrested in the violence, with calm returning at around 2:30 am Tuesday. At daybreak Tuesday, the streets of the Bosquets estate were strewn with stones, broken glass and the smouldering remains of burnt garbage.
Trouble was also reported in the neighbouring suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois — where last autumn's riots started following the electrocution of two teenagers who believed they were being chased by police.
Around 60 youths were involved in clashes with police in the Chene estate in the town.
The Montfermeil area has been tense since the centre-right mayor Xavier Lemoine in April adopted tough anti-delinquency measures, which notably ban gatherings of more than three youths in the town centre.
The mayor and his family have been targeted by local youths before over the measures and Lemoine was given police protection after his residence was stoned in late April.
"Tonight's violence showed that the lives of my family and my seven children are in danger," he said Tuesday.
Losers. Bye-bye Europe, it was good knowing you..
via Rantburg