Monday, October 23, 2006

Post #205 ROP Chronicles: Youths in Paris torch bus as authorities fear civil unrest

A gang of youths forced passengers off a bus in a Paris suburb yesterday before setting it alight and then stoning fire fighters.

The attack - which happened in broad daylight on Sunday - is the latest in a string of similar disturbances in housing estates surrounding the French capital.

They come amid rising tensions as the anniversary approaches of widespread rioting and car torching that forced France to declare a state of emergency last October.

Youths from France’s run-down suburban estates began rioting on October 27, 2005, after two teenagers of North African origin died when they were accidentally electrocuted in a sub-station while trying to flee police in Clichy-sous-Bois, east of Paris.

Southern baptist's at it again.


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