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...violence that started in the French suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and spread to over 30 towns and cities has led the French government to temporarily impose a curfew and ban public gatherings. After weeks of rioting in the French Arab and African communities, the situation appears to have calmed down. But the calm is illusory, as the main underlying causes of the riots will most likely remain unaddressed...
...well as that of youths in the neighborhoods where the violence erupted. "I will slit his throat or shoot him with a Kalashnikov--no matter how, I'll kill him," says Osman, 14, to nods of approval from his middle-school classmates in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. But Sarkozy has also tapped into a craving for law and order within the French mainstream, which has recoiled at the rioters' defiance of the authorities. The rioters torched more than 7,500 cars in some 300 cities and towns throughout France and caused an estimated $235 million in damage...
Banlieues like Bobigny, Aulnay-sous-Bois and the original flash point of Clichy-sous-Bois make up a tinderbox that few foreigners see and no one in France wants to talk about. The working-class suburbs of Paris are dominated by sterile high-rise public housing, where Arab immigrants from North Africa were shunted when they started arriving in the postcolonial years. Now their children and grandchildren subsist in squalor alongside fresh waves of African and South Asian immigrants and their French-born children. Families struggle to hang on to their dignity, while drug dealers and petty criminals exploit...
...spark for last week's chaos came on Oct. 27, with the deaths of two teenagers from the jumble of apartment blocks that make up Clichy-sous-Bois. Bouna Traore, 15, of Malian origin, and Zyed Benna, 17, whose parents are Tunisian, thought they were being chased by police. When they took refuge with a third teenager in the relay station of a high-voltage transformer, Traore and Benna were electrocuted. Locals blamed overzealous policing for the deaths, although an official inquiry late last week found that there had been no pursuit. That evening an angry group demonstrated in front...
...Anger and resentment have been long brewing in the belt of immigrant misery that surrounds Paris, where jobs are rare and poverty rampant. It exploded last Thursday night when two teenagers in the northeastern banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois were electrocuted after they climbed into a electric relay station and touched a high-voltage transformer. The youths-one Malian, the other Tunisian-had apparently thought they were being chased by police after fleeing a police identity check. Though a preliminary investigation has found that they weren't being pursued, their senseless deaths were quickly blamed on the police. After...