French riots continue into second week
{{date|November 3, 2005}}
[[Image:Paris suburb riots.png|right|thumb|Uprisings in Paris suburbs have been raging for over one week now.]]
The uprising continued Thursday in the suburbs of [[w:Paris|Paris]], where residents have set fire to buildings, cars, and buses and shot at police and firefighters.  Reports indicate that at least nine people have been injured as a result of the violence.  

Numerous uprisings have been reported in over 20 Paris suburbs, all of which are towns with large African immigrant populations, poor education, health, and infrastructure, and long histories of police brutality and deportations.

French President [[w:Jacques Chirac|Jacques Chirac]] met with his administration on Wednesday to discuss the current situation.  However, there has been no announcement regarding strategies to suppress the violence. The communities are calling on riot police to be withdrawn, since they are serving primarily to incite further confrontation.

The uprisings erupted when two teenagers, 15 and 17 years of age, died of electrocution in a power station where they were hiding to escape an ID check from police.  A third is seriously injured. 

The uprising gained force and spread across the country after riot police tear gassed the women's prayer room of a mosque on the holiest night of Ramadan, then called women "whores" as they emerged, choking.

== Sources ==
{{Wikipediapar|2005 civil unrest in France}}

*{{source|url=http://www.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/827280.shtml
|title=Paris is Burning: Racism and Repression Explode in Week of Uprisings
|author=Indymedia
|pub=Indymedia
|date=November  5, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://info.france2.fr/france/15443366-fr.php
|title=Banlieues: reunion ministerielle
|author=
|pub=France2
|date=November  5, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4409854.stm
|title=Tough French warning for rioters
|author=
|pub=BBC
|date=November  5, 2005}} 

*{{source|url=http://www.nypost.com/commentary/53917.htm
|title=Why Paris is Burning
|author=Amir Taheri
|pub=New York Post
|date=November  4, 2005}} (''free registration required to view'')

*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4405620.stm
|title=French riots spread beyond Paris
|author=
|pub=BBC
|date=November  4, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://faeriebell.blogspot.com/2005/11/paris-rioting.html
|title=Paris Rioting : A Digest of Francophone Blogs
|author=Faeriebell
|pub=French
|date=November  4, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1277682
|title=French Rioters Shoot at Police, Fire Crews
|author=Associated Press
|pub=ABCNews.com
|date=November  3, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110300337.html
|title=Seven Violent Nights on the Outskirts of Paris
|author=Molly Moore
|pub=Washington Post
|date=November  3, 2005}}

*{{source|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/paris-riots-spark-100-fires/2005/11/02/1130823246827.html
|title=Paris riots spark 100 fires
|author=Associated Press
|pub=Sydney Morning Herald
|date=November  2, 2005}}

==External links==
:[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:French_riots_november_2005.jpg Editorial cartoon]

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Uprisings in Paris suburbs have been raging for over one week now.
The uprising continued Thursday in the suburbs of Paris, where residents have set fire to buildings, cars, and buses and shot at police and firefighters.  Reports indicate that at least nine people have been injured as a result of the violence.  

Numerous uprisings have been reported in over 20 Paris suburbs, all of which are towns with large African immigrant populations, poor education, health, and infrastructure, and long histories of police brutality and deportations.

French President Jacques Chirac met with his administration on Wednesday to discuss the current situation.  However, there has been no announcement regarding strategies to suppress the violence. The communities are calling on riot police to be withdrawn, since they are serving primarily to incite further confrontation.

The uprisings erupted when two teenagers, 15 and 17 years of age, died of electrocution in a power station where they were hiding to escape an ID check from police.  A third is seriously injured. 

The uprising gained force and spread across the country after riot police tear gassed the women's prayer room of a mosque on the holiest night of Ramadan, then called women "whores" as they emerged, choking.

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