21 police officers injured in clashes with rampaging youth in French suburb
Rampaging youths assaulted a police station, set fire to cars and vandalized stores and a McDonald's restaurant in clashes in a rundown Paris suburb. Twenty-one police officers were injured.
The violence Sunday night, prompted when two teens were killed in a motorbike crash with a police patrol car, was a reminder that the tensions which drove nationwide riots in 2005 in predominantly immigrant housing projects remain unresolved.
Eight people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured - including the town's police chief, beaten in the face after he tried to negotiate with the rioters, a police official said.
Residents drew parallels with the 2005 riots, which were prompted by the deaths of two teens electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police in a suburb northeast of Paris.
The backlash then against police spread across the nation and raged for three weeks, as youths - many of them black or of Arab origin - torched cars and clashed with police in an explosion of anger over discrimination, unemployment and alienation from mainstream French society.
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Rampaging youths assaulted a police station, set fire to cars and vandalized stores and a McDonald's restaurant in clashes in a rundown Paris suburb. Twenty-one police officers were injured.
The violence Sunday night, prompted when two teens were killed in a motorbike crash with a police patrol car, was a reminder that the tensions which drove nationwide riots in 2005 in predominantly immigrant housing projects remain unresolved.
Eight people were arrested and 21 police officers were injured - including the town's police chief, beaten in the face after he tried to negotiate with the rioters, a police official said.
Residents drew parallels with the 2005 riots, which were prompted by the deaths of two teens electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police in a suburb northeast of Paris.
The backlash then against police spread across the nation and raged for three weeks, as youths - many of them black or of Arab origin - torched cars and clashed with police in an explosion of anger over discrimination, unemployment and alienation from mainstream French society.
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