2005_civil_unrest_in

{{2005 civil unrest in France}} Image:Strasbourg_torched_car.jpg, 5 November.]] The '''2005 Civil_unrest in France and neighboring countries''' was a series of Riots and other forms of violent clashes between thousands of youths (predominantly of French_Muslim background) from poor Suburbs and the French_Police (as well as the police of neighboring countries). The riots began on Thursday 27_October 2005 in the banlieues of Paris. They peaked on the night of 7_November, affecting 274 communes. On 17_November, the French police declared a return to a normal situation throughout France, saying that the 98 vehicles torched the previous night corresponded to the usual average. According to the official count, 8,973 vehicles were torched during the 20 nights of rioting, with 2,888 arrests, and 126 police injured http://www.lemonde.fr/web/articleinteractif/0,41-0@2-706693,49-710990@51-704172,0.html. ==Timeline== {{main|Timeline of the 2005 French civil unrest}} The riots were triggered by the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois, a poor commune in an eastern Banlieue (suburb) of Paris. Initially confined to the Paris area, the unrest subsequently spread to other areas of the Île-de-France région, and spread through the outskirts of France's urban areas, also affecting some rural areas. After 3_November it spread to other cities in France, affecting all 15 of the large ''aires urbaines'' in the country. Thousands of vehicles were burned, and at least one person was killed by the rioters. Close to 2900 rioters were arrested. On 8_November, President Jacques_Chirac declared a State_of_emergency effective at Midnight. Despite the new regulations, riots continued, though on a reduced scale, the following two nights, and again worsened the third night. On 9_November and the morning of 10_November a school was burned in Belfort, and there was violence in Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Marseille, and Lyon http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051110/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting_fr1. On 10_November and the morning of 11_November, violence increased overnight in the Paris region, and there were still a number of police wounded across the country http://news.tf1.fr/news/france/0,,3262115,00.html. According to the Interior, violence, arson, and attacks on police worsened on the 11th and morning of the 12th, and there were further attacks on power stations, causing a blackout in the northern part of Amiens http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051112/wl_nm/france_riots_dc_141;_ylt=ArRHFTwls0_pf7tLpcDDZLjgelIB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl. Rioting took place in the city center of Lyon on Saturday, 12_November, as young people attacked cars and threw rocks at riot police who responded with tear gas. Also that night, a nursery school was torched in the southern town of Carpentras http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4430540.stm. On the night of the 14th and the morning of the 15th, 215 vehicles were burned across France and 71 people were arrested http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-26065297@7-40,0.html. Thirteen vehicles were torched in central Paris, compared to only one the night before. In the suburbs of Paris, firebombs were thrown at the treasury in Bobigny and at an electrical transformer in Clichy-sous-Bois, the neighborhood where the disturbances started. A daycare centre in Cambrai and a tourist agency in Fontenay-sous-Bois were also attacked. Eighteen buses were damaged by arson at a depot in Saint-Etienne. The mosque in Saint-Chamond was hit by three firebombs, which did little damage http://fr.news.yahoo.com/15112005/5/violences-urbaines-plus-de-200-vehicules-incendies-dans-la-nuit.html. Only 163 vehicles went up in flames on the 20th night of unrest, 15_November to 16, leading the French government to claim that the country was returning to an "almost normal situation". During the night's events, a Roman Catholic church was burned and a vehicle was rammed into an unoccupied police station in Romans-sur-Isère. In other incidents, a police officer was injured while making an arrest after youths threw bottles of acid at the town hall in Pont-l'Évêque, and a junior high school in Grenoble was set on fire. Fifty arrests were carried out across the country http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5419250,00.html http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051116.FAP6521.html?0833. On 16_November, hooded youths burned two cars, erected street barricades, and fired gunshots at police in the town of Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Guadeloupe, a French territory in the Caribbean. Police returned fire. A wine festival in Grenoble, ''Le Beaujolais nouveau'', ended in rioting on the night of 18_November, with a crowd throwing rocks and bottles at riot police. Tear gas was deployed by officers. Sixteen youths and 17 police officers were injured. Though those events might have been easily linked with the riots in Paris suburbs, it appears they differ completely in nature and might just well be considered as predictable "wine festival" casualties, caused by misunderstanding and alcohol. http://fr.news.yahoo.com/18112005/202/fete-du-beaujolais-violente-grenoble-17-policiers-et-16-jeunes.html == The event that triggered the riots == Image:Paris_riots_satellite.jpg]] On Thursday 27_October 2005, a group of ten high school teenagers were playing football in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. The teenagers allegedly ran and hid when police officers arrived to conduct ID checks. Three of the teenagers, thinking they were being chased by the police, climbed a wall to hide in a power substation http://lmsi.net/article.php3?id_article=477 http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/2005/11/state-violence-in-clichy-sous-bois.html. "Bouna Traore, a 15-year-old of Malian background, and Zyed Benna, a 17-year-old of Tunisian origin" http://www.ttc.org/200511031152.ja3bqwn17845.htm (photo) were electrocuted by a Transformer in the electric substation. Muhttin Altun, 17 (whose parents, Haseyin and Aïcha, are Turkish Kurds) was injured and hospitalized. A friend of the three stated that Clichy-sous-Bois "has three principal communities, the Arabs, the Turks and the Blacks. The three victims represented each one a community". http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/international/europe/07youths.html/partner/rssnyt http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-707269@51-704172,0.html The_New_York_Times reported, citing two police investigations, that the incident began at 17:20 on Thursday, 27_October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois when police were called to a construction site there to investigate a possible break-in. Six youths were detained by 17:50. During questioning at the police station in Livry-Gargan at 18:12, blackouts occurred at the station and in nearby areas. These were caused, police say, by the electrocution of the two boys and the injury to the third. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/international/europe/07youths.html/partner/rssnyt "According to statements by Mr. Altun, who remains hospitalized with injuries, a group of ten or so friends had been playing football on a nearby field and were returning home when they saw the police patrol. They all fled in different directions to avoid the lengthy questioning that youths in the housing projects say they often face from the police. They say they are required to present identity papers and can be held as long as four hours at the police station, and sometimes their parents must come before the police will release them." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/international/europe/07youths.html/partner/rssnyt There is controversy over whether or not the teens were actually chased. The local prosecutor, François Molins, has said they believed so, but the police were actually after other suspects attempting to avoid an identity check http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=255694&area;=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/. Molins and Interior Minister Nicolas_Sarkozy maintain that the dead teenagers had not been "physically pursued" by the police. This is disputed by some: The_Australian reports "Despite denials by police officials and Sarkozy and de Villepin, friends of the boys said they were being pursued by police after a false accusation of burglary and that they 'feared interrogation'" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17112484%255E2703,00.html. There were initial police accusations that the boys were thieves and well known by the police, accusations immediately echoed by Dominique de Villepin on national television, which turned out to be false and were later withdrawn. Such inconsistent statements by police and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy have fueled public mistrust of the authorities since the riots began. This event ignited pre-existing tensions. Protesters told The Associated Press the unrest was an expression of frustration with high Unemployment and police Harassment and brutality in the areas. "People are joining together to say we've had enough," said one protester. "We live in Ghettos. Everyone lives in fear." http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/03/1545217#transcript http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051102/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting;_ylt=A86.I1b1OGlDGGsBbhBw24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl The rioters' suburbs are also home to a large North African immigrant population, allegedly adding ethnic and religious tensions which some right-wing commentators believe contribute further to such frustrations. According to Pascal_Mailhos, chief of the Renseignements_Généraux, the influence of radical islamism in the 2005_civil_unrest_in_France was nil. http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0%402-3224,36-713756%4051-713595,0.html == Context == {{main|Social situation in the French suburbs}} Image:2005riot_rioters.jpg On 5 November the New_York_Times reported the riots had not taken strong ideological or religious overtones, and "while a majority of the youths committing the acts are Muslim, and of African or North_African origin" local residents say that "second-generation Portuguese immigrants and even some children of native French have taken part." http://nytimes.com/2005/11/07/international/europe/07france.html?pagewanted=2&ei;=5094&en;=573c9c6c59c15188&hp;&ex;=1131426000&partner;=homepage The BBC reported that French society's negative perceptions of Islam and of immigrants have alienated some French Muslims and may have been a factor in the causes of the riots; "Islam is seen as the biggest challenge to the country's secular model in the past 100 years". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4375910.stm At the same time, the editorial questioned whether or not such alarm is justified, citing that France's Muslim ghettos are not hotbeds of Separatism and that "the suburbs are full of people desperate to integrate into the wider society." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4414442.stm The BBC also reported that there was a "huge well of fury and resentment among the children of North African and African immigrants in the suburbs of French cities." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4375910.stm The inhabitants of the French suburbs (''banlieue'') suffer from unemployment at a much higher level than that of the rest of France. According to the BBC, unemployment of people of foreign origin is 1.5 times higher than that of people of French origin, after adjusting for educational qualifications. An unemployment rate of 5% for French university graduates can be compared to the unemployment rate of 26.5% for university graduates of north African origin (BBC). Racial and religious discrimination against persons with dark skin or Muslim-sounding names has been cited as a major cause of unhappiness in the areas affected. According to the BBC, "Those who live there say that when they go for a job, as soon as they give their name as "Mamadou" and say they live in Clichy-sous-Bois, they are immediately told that the vacancy has been taken." The nonprofit organization SOS_Racisme, associated with the French_Socialist_Party, said that after they sent identical CVs to French companies with European- and African or Muslim-sounding names attached, they found CVs with African or Muslim sounding names attached were discarded. In addition, they have claimed widespread use of markings indicating race in employers' databases and that discrimination is more widespread for those with college degrees than for those without. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4399748.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4408972.stm http://www.sos-racisme.org/embauche.pdf == Assessment of rioting == Assessments of the extent of violence and damage that occurred during the riots are under way. Figures may be incomplete or inaccurate. Some French media sources, including France_3, have decided not to report the extent of damage so as to avoid any risk of inflaming the situation. http://info.france2.fr/violences-banlieues/15475641-fr.php After the first few days of rioting media organisations agreed to publish only the total number of torched cars, without giving locations, to avoid encouraging any type of contest between rioters. The French Federation of Insurance Companies (FFSA), has given a preliminary estimate for the total damage up to November_14, 2005 as being up to €200 million for property and casualty losses, inclusive of €20 million for torched cars. Dominique de Villepin, in an interview to the US TV channel CNN, said: :''I am not sure you can call them riots. It's very different from the situation you have known in 1992 in L.A. for example. You had at that time 54 people that died, and you had 2,000 people wounded. In France during the 2 weeks period of unrest, nobody died in France. So, I think you can't compare this social unrest with any kind of riots.'' ===Summary statistics=== {{see|Timeline of the 2005 French civil unrest}} {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * Started: 17:20 on Thursday, 27_October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois * Towns affected: 274 (on 7_November http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/07/france.riots/index.html) * Property damage: more than 8,970 vehicles (Not counting buildings) * Monetary damage: Estimated at €200 Million. {{col-2}} * Arrests: 2,888 * Deaths: 1 (Jean-Jacques_Le_Chenadec) * Police and firefighters injured: 126 {{col-end}} Source: French Interior Ministry, BBC News unless stated ===Figures and tables=== Note: In the table and charts, events reported as occuring during a night and the following morning are listed as occuring on the day of the morning. The timeline article does the opposite.

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{| rules="all" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 1em; border: 1px solid #999; font-size: 80%; background-color: white"; |- style="background:#ccccff" align="center" | | || day || vehicles burned || arrests || extent of riots || sources |- |1.|| Friday October_28 2005 || NA || 27 || Clichy-sous-Bois || http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/31/news/france.php |- |2.|| Saturday October_29 2005 || 29 || 14 || Clichy-sous-Bois || http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051029/wl_afp/franceriotpolice |- |3.|| Sunday October_30 2005 || 30 || 19 || Clichy-sous-Bois || http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1604595,00.html |- |4.|| Monday October_31 2005 || NA || NA || Clichy-sous-Bois, Montfermeil || |- |5.|| Tuesday November_1 2005 || 69 || NA || Seine-Saint-Denis || http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html |- |6.|| Wednesday November_2 2005 || 40 || NA || Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne Val-d’Oise, Hauts-de-Seine || |- |7.|| Thursday November_3 2005 || 315 || 29 || Île-de-France, Dijon, Rouen, Bouches-du-Rhône || http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.FAP3932.html?1733 |- |8.|| Friday November_4 2005 || 596 || 78 || Île-de-France, Dijon, Rouen, Marseille || http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.FAP3932.html?1733 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4405620.stm |- |9.|| Saturday November_5 2005 || 897 || 253 || Île-de-France, Rouen, Dijon, Marseille, Évreux, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Hem, Strasbourg, Rennes, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Pau, Lille || http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-707066@51-704172,0.html http://www.france-echos.com/actualite.php?cle=7518 http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID;=2005-11-05T122759Z_01_KNE228332_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-RIOTS.xml&archived;=False |- |10.|| Sunday November_6 2005 || 1,295 || 312 || Île-de-France, Nord, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Haute-Garonne, Loire-Atlantique, Essonne. || http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-707066@51-704172,0.html |- |11.|| Monday November_7 2005 || 1,408 || 395 || 274 towns in total. Île-de-France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Midi-Pyrénées, Rhône-Alpes, Alsace, Franche-Comté. || http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051106.OBS4325.html http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6727FE6C-C8E3-491A-B272-A902E3F3F500.htm http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/07/france.riots/index.html |- |12.|| Tuesday November_8 2005 || 1,173 || 330 || Paris region, Lille, Auxerre, Toulouse, Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comté || http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-706693,36-707659@51-704172,0.html http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/11/08/afx2323455.html http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID;=nL08772457&imageid;=2005-11-07T215351Z_01_TOU02D_RTRIDSP_2_FRANCE-RIOTS.jpg∩=A%20suburban%20bus%20burns%20in%20Reynerie,%20near%20the%20southwestern%20city%20of%20Toulouse,%20after%20youths%20set%20fire%20to%20it%20and%20three%20cars%20on%20the%2012th%20night%20of%20violence%20November%207,%202005.%20France%20announced%20plans%20on%20Monday%20to%20impose%20curfews%20on%20rundown%20suburbs%20hit%20by%20violence%20to%20try%20to%20halt%20almost%20two%20weeks%20of%20unrest%20in%20which%20one%20man%20has%20been%20killed%20and%20thousands%20of%20cars%20have%20been%20torched.%20REUTERS/Stringer |- |13.|| Wednesday November_9 2005 || 617 || 280 || 116 towns in total. Paris region, Toulouse, Rhône, Gironde, Arras, Grasse, Dole, Bassens || http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-706693,36-708075@51-704172,0.html http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/09/france.riots/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4419770.stm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/09/content_3756065.htm http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/08/D8DON2L00.html |- |14.|| Thursday November_10 2005 || 482 || 203 || Toulouse, Belfort || http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4423584.stm http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID;=2005-11-10T073440Z_01_HO756911_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-RIOTS1.xml&archived;=False http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-708638@51-704172,0.html |- |15.|| Friday November_11 2005 || 463 || 201 || Toulouse, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille || http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID;=2005-11-11T074709Z_01_YUE042397_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-RIOTS.xml http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/10/ap/world/mainD8DPR93GD.shtml |- |16.|| Saturday November_12 2005 || 502 || 206 || NA || http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID;=2005-11-12T080701Z_01_YUE042397_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FRANCE-RIOTS.xml http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-709528@51-704172,0.html |- |17.|| Sunday November_13 2005 || 374 || 212 || Lyon, Tolouse, Carpentras, Dunkirk, Amiens, Grenoble || http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violences_urbaines_de_2005_en_banlieue_fran%C3%A7aise#Bilan_des_journ.C3.A9es_pass.C3.A9es |- |18.|| Monday November_14 2005 || 284 || 115 || Toulouse, Faches-Thumesnil, Halluin, Grenoble || http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click;_id=126&art;_id=qw1131954841633B216 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/13162745.htm |- |19.|| Tuesday November_15 2005 || 215 || 71 || Saint-Chamond, Bourges || http://www.nzz.ch/2005/11/15/al/newzzEG1PY5DF-12.html http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-706693,36-710208@51-707207,0.html |- |20.|| Wednesday November_16 2005 || 163 || 50 || Paris region, Arras, Brest, Vitry-le-François, Romans-sur-Isère || http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-710597@51-704172,0.html http://www.nzz.ch/2005/11/16/al/newzzEG35LKJD-12.html |- style="background:#ccccff" align="center" | | '''TOTAL''' || '''20 nights''' || '''8,973''' || '''2,888''' || || |} ===List of areas affected=== Image:2005france_riot_map.png affected by 2005 civil unrest in France, as of 11_November 2005, are shown in red.]] ====Île-de-France==== *Paris (3rd, 17th arrondissements) *Seine-Saint-Denis: Aubervilliers, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Bagnolet, Bobigny, Bondy, Clichy-sous-Bois, Drancy, Épinay-sur-Seine, Gagny, La_Courneuve, Le_Blanc-Mesnil, Le Bourget, Montfermeil, Montreuil-sous-Bois, Noisy-le-Grand, Noisy-le-Sec, Pantin, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Romainville, Rosny-sous-Bois, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, Sevran, Stains, Tremblay-en-France, Villepinte, Villetaneuse *Yvelines: Achères, Les_Mureaux, Sartrouville, Trappes *Seine-et-Marne: Meaux, Torcy, Melun area *Val-de-Marne: Champigny, Le_Kremlin-Bicêtre, Ormesson-sur-Marne, Villejuif, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges *Essonne: Athis-Mons, Evry, Corbeil-Essonnes, Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Brétigny-sur-Orge, Grigny, Fleury-Mérogis *Hauts-de-Seine: Asnières, Clamart, Colombes, Gennevilliers, Sèvres, Suresnes *Val-d'Oise: Argenteuil, Villiers-le-Bel ====Other French areas affected==== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *Ain: Bourg-en-Bresse, Meximieux *Aisne: Soissons *Alpes-Maritimes: Drap, Nice, Saint-André, Cannes *Bas-Rhin: Schiltigheim, Strasbourg *Bouches-du-Rhône: Marseille *Côte_d'Or: Dijon *Doubs: Montbéliard *Eure: Évreux http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051106/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting *Finistère: Brest, Quimper *Gironde: Bègles, Blanquefort, Bordeaux, Lormont *Guadeloupe: Pointe-à-Pitre http://www.adetocqueville.com/cgi-binloc/searchTTC.cgi?displayZop+27486 :On November_16 police and firemen in the Caribbean overseas département (département d'outre-mer or DOM) of Guadeloupe came under gunfire after hooded youths burned two cars and erected street barriers in the town of Pointe-a-Pitre, police said Wednesday. No one was injured as firemen fled the scene once the shooting broke out Tuesday night, when police returned fire against what they characterized as a trap set by snipers. Police believe the the attack is linked to rioting in metropolitan France http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051116102100396. *Haute-Garonne: Toulouse *Haute-Marne: Saint-Dizier *Hautes-Pyrénées: Tarbes *Haute-Savoie: Sallanches, Seynod, Cluse, Ville-la-Grand, Annemasse, Rumilly *Haut-Rhin: Colmar, Illzach, Mulhouse *Hérault: Béziers, Frontignan, Ganges, Lunel, Montpellier, Saint-André-de-Sangonis, Sète *Ille-et-Vilaine: Saint-Malo, Rennes *Indre-et-Loire: Tours *Isère: Echirolles, Grenoble {{col-2}} *Loir-et-Cher: Blois *Loire : Roanne, Saint-Étienne *Loire-Atlantique: Nantes, Saint-Herblain *Loiret: Montargis, Orléans *Mayenne: Laval *Meurthe-et-Moselle: Nancy *Moselle: Guénange, Metz, Rombas, Thionville *Nord: Dunkerque, Hem, Loos, Marcq-en-Baroeul, Lille, Mons-en-Baroeul, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Wattrelos *Oise: Beauvais, Méru, Nogent-sur-Oise, Creil *Pas-de-Calais: Lens, Calais, Arras, Le_Portel, Hénin-Beaumont *Pyrénées-Orientales: Canet-en-Roussillon, Perpignan *Puy-de-Dôme: Clermont-Ferrand *Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau *Rhône: Lyon, Rillieux-la-Pape, Vénissieux *Sarthe: Le_Mans *Saône-et-Loire: Montceau-les-Mines, Chalon-sur-Saône *Seine_Maritime: Le_Havre, Rouen *Somme: Amiens *Tarn-et-Garonne: Montauban, La_Ville-Dieu-du-Temple *Territoire_de_Belfort: Belfort *Var: Draguignan, Fréjus, La_Seyne-sur-Mer, Toulon *Vaucluse: Apt, Avignon, Bédoin, Carpentras, Maubec, Pertuis, Valréas *Vosges: Épinal {{col-end}} ===Related events in other countries=== *{{BEL}} {{main|2005 Belgian urban violence}} :On Sunday, November_6, the first possibly related incident outside France took place. Five cars were torched in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), Belgium. Belgian police considered it an isolated case. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_138112.html However, on Monday another five cars were torched in the region, as more were overturned and Molotov_cocktails were thrown at the police. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_138346.html In Liège, Sint-Niklaas, Bruges, and even the rural community of Dilbeek, there were isolated events of car burning and Molotov-throwing. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_138361.html On November_8, there were twenty more acts of car burning, Molotov-throwing and other arson. New areas that were hit include Antwerp, Charleroi, Genk, Ghent, La_Louvière and Lokeren. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_139952.html On November_9 the police encountered conclusive evidence that the arson was inspired by the situation in France: on a torched car, the remark "Fuck you Sarkozy, Antwerp - Paris" was found. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140036.html In the evening, more than thirty new cases of torched cars and other arson were reported. Some twenty people in total were arrested. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140196.html On November_10, three people were arrested after some twenty five new crimes. Meanwhile, there were reports of radical weblogs, on popular online youth communities such as Skyblog http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/08/news/blogs.php, calling for a massive riot in Brussels on November_12. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140259.html On November_11, there were another thirty incidents and a couple of arrests. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140586.html On November_12, the expected coordinated riots became reality, and police arrested (and released) sixty out of one hundred rioters. However, some thirty cars were burned and one injured suspect was arrested. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140747.html Among the new places affected were Vilvoorde and the university city of Louvain-La-Neuve. On November_13, a truck set on fire caused a blaze that destroyed two buildings, including a school. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140761.html In the evening, there were some fifteen more cases of arson. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_140914.html Since November_14, there have been some thirty more incidents. http://www.hln.be/hln/cch/det/art_141149.html However, media coverage in Belgium is subsiding. *{{DEN}} :A number of arsons occured in Viby near Aarhus in Denmark in late October and early November. http://ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=318658 Store-front windows were also smashed. After a community meeting, complete with social workers and police, relative calm was achieved over the weekend. However, a substantial police force had to be deployed on Wednesday, 9_November to restore order after store-smashing and attempted torchings recurred. http://www.berlingske.dk/grid/indland/artikel:aid=653946 http://ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=320169 http://ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=319945 http://ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=318907 *{{GER}} : A number of arson attacks and other acts of vandalism, possibly inspired by the riots in France, have been committed in Germany. Six cars were set ablaze in Bremen and Berlin on the night between 6_November and 7_November. In the Moabit neighborhood of Berlin, five cars were set on fire. In Bremen, a caravan (camper) burned. Also in Cologne four cars have been torched. Police have not ruled out the possibility that these were copycat attacks related to those in France. http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID4930410_REF1_NAV_BAB,00.html http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/berlin/498596.html *{{GRE}} : On 11_November, a group of around seventy youths attacked the French_Institute building in Athens. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting_fr1_65;_ylt=Ai9gwILTz33Lt9_4T4wa3JTgelIB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl : About fifty anarchists firebombed two car dealerships in central Athens early Sunday, 13_November, destroying more than thirty automobiles. The Citroen and Mercedes showrooms were severely damaged. http://english.people.com.cn/200511/14/eng20051114_220943.html : Two French businesses were attacked by some unidentified arsonists on Monday night, 14_November in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. A Renault car dealership was firebombed, destroying eight cars. A Carrefour supermarket was similarly attacked, suffering serious damage. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/16/content_3786066.htm : During a 17_November demonstration in Patras commemorating the 1973 Greek student uprising, anarchists chanted about the unrest in France and tossed paint-bombs at a French institute. Chants included, "In Greece, France, Algeria, the enemy is in the banks and the ministries." http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=5784 In Athens, eggs and paint were thrown at the French embassy, as demonstrators voiced their support for the rioters in France. http://news.ert.gr/en/newsDetails.asp?id=12830 : On the night of 18_November gas bottles were exploded at an Chevrolet auto dealership, in Peristeri, a suburb of Athens, destroying two cars. http://news.ert.gr/en/newsDetails.asp?ID=12866 *{{NET}} : Police made two arrests Sunday morning, 13_November, in Waalwijk in the southern province of North Brabant, after four cars were burned during Saturday night disturbances. : More than a dozen cars were firebombed and several others damaged in incidents in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on the night of Saturday, 12_November.http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1061998.php/Weekend_arson_attacks_on_cars_in_Netherlands. *{{SPA}} : On 6_November, twenty trash cans and six cars were burned in the city of Seville. http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/articulo.asp?idart=2051001&idcat;=1421 On 7_November, nineteen trash cans, five cars and a motorbike were torched in the same city. Firefighters attempting to extinguish the fire were injured by stones thrown by attackers. The subdelegate of the Spanish government in Seville considered it to be an isolated case. http://www.libertaddigital.com/noticias/noticia_1276264923.html http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/articulo.asp?idart=2036300&idcat;=1421 On 8 November, another car and fourteen trash cans were burned in many districts of Seville. http://www.libertaddigital.com/noticias/noticia_1276265018.html http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/articulo.asp?idart=2051001&idcat;=1421 The city council has imposed an information blackout over local police and firefighters, so they can't report new incidents to the press. It appears that these acts of vandalism are coordinated, because many fires start at the same time in different places of Seville. Also, four cars were torched in the city of Hospitalet_de_Llobregat. http://www.libertaddigital.com/noticias/noticia_1276265071.html According to the National Police, on 9_November also were some cars burned in Seville. http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/articulo.asp?idart=2058854&idcat;=1168 On Thursday, 10_November, a unknown number of cars have been burned in Seville. http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/articulo.asp?idart=2055330&idcat;=1421 Three cars were burned in Hospitalet_de_Llobregat and Barcelona. Also have been found some wall paintings in Barcelona with the message ''the fire is extending'' and ''Paris is burning''. http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/63793/0/coches/incendiados/Clot/ On 11_November, a car, two motorbikes and thirteen trashcans were burned in Seville. Six people were arrested. http://www.diariodesevilla.com/diariodesevilla/articulo.asp?idart=2058854&idcat;=1168. *{{SUI}} : On Sunday night, 13_November, two cars were burned in the Swiss town of Martigny. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051114/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting_fr1_103. == Response == {{main|Response to the 2005 civil unrest in France}} ===Political=== Image:Nicolas_Sarkozy_UMP.jpg]] Interior Minister Nicolas_Sarkozy after the fourth night of riots declared a Zero_tolerance policy towards urban violence and announced that seventeen companies of riot police (C.R.S.) and seven mobile police squadrons (''escadrons de gendarmerie mobile'') would be stationed in contentious Paris neighborhoods. Sarkozy has said that he believes that some of the violence may be at the instigation of organized gangs. "... All of this doesn't appear to us to be completely spontaneous," he said http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051104-104205-1743r. The families of the two youths killed, after refusing to meet with Sarkozy, met with Prime Minister Dominique_de_Villepin on 3_November. Azouz_Begag, delegate minister for the promotion of equal opportunity, criticized Sarkozy for the latter's use of "imprecise, warlike semantics". http://www.liberation.com/page.php?Article=335103. On 5_November, Paris prosecutor Yves_Bot told Europe_1 radio that "This is done in a way that gives every appearance of being coordinated." The controversial Union_of_Islamic_Organisations_of_France issued a Fatwa against the riots, without much results. The ''Mufti'' of Marseilles opposed Nicolas_Sarkozy's controversial use of Islamic organizations, declaring that their role was not to intercede for the youth. President Jacques_Chirac announced a national State_of_emergency on 8_November. On 8_November, Lilian_Thuram, a famous soccer member of the Higher_Council_for_Integration, blamed Sarkozy : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1865536,00.html. He explained that Discrimination and Unemployment is the root of the evil. On 9_November 2005, Nicolas Sarkozy issued an order to deport foreigners convicted of involvement, provoking concerns from the left-wing, including for example SOS_Racisme. Mr Sarkozy told parliament that 120 foreigners — "not all of whom are here illegally" — had been called in by police, accused of taking part in the nightly attacks. "I have asked the prefects to deport them from our national territory without delay, including those who have a residency visa," he said. The far-right French politician Jean-Marie_Le_Pen agreed, stating that naturalized French rioters should have their citizenship revoked. A demonstration against the expulsion of all foreign rioters and demanding the end of the state of emergency, was called for on November_15 in Paris by left-wing and human rights organizations. On the 20_November 2005, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced tightened controls on immigration: Authorities will increase enforcement of requirements that immigrants seeking 10-year residency permits or French citizenship master the French language and integrate into society. France also plans to crack down on fraudulent marriages that some immigrants use to acquire residency rights and launch a stricter screening process for foreign students. Anti-racism groups widely opposed the measures, saying that greater government scrutiny of immigrants could stir up racism and racist acts. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_re_eu/france_immigration ===Police=== Image:2005riot_shooting.jpg gun at youths; prior to or on 13_November.]] Sarkozy stated that police officers should be armed with non-lethal weapons to combat urban violence http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051030/wl_afp/franceriotpolice_051030022906. Prior to the riots, he had already equipped the police with Flash-ball and Tasers, which has been criticized by Amnesty_International, concerned by risks of abuse. French national police spokesman, Patrick_Hamon, was quoted in the Wall_Street_Journal as saying that there appeared to be no coordination among gangs in different areas. But he said youths in individual neighborhoods were communicating by cellphone text messages, online Blogs, and/or email — arranging meetings and alerting one another other about possible police operations. An extra 2,600 police were drafted on 6_November. On 7_November, de Villepin on the TF1 television channel announced the deployment of 18,000 police, supported by a 1,500 strong reserve. Sarkozy suspended eight police officers for beating up someone they had arrested, an act caught by a camera http://www.nzz.ch/2005/11/11/al/newzzEFW1EOO2-12.html. ===Media Coverage=== Jean-Claude Dassier, News director general at the private channel TF1 and one of France's leading TV news executives, has admitted to self censoring the coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians; while public television station France_3 has stopped reporting the numbers of torched cars, apparently in order not to encourage some race and "record making" between delinquent groups. http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1639538,00.html http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2005/11/french_media_do.html == References== {{commons|Paris suburb riots}} {{wikinews|French riots continue into second week}} {{wikinews|First casualty of French riots reported}} * ''ABC News'' via ''Associated_Press'' (29_October 2005), "Youths Riot for a Second Night in Paris" * Durand, Jacky ''Libération'' (29_October 2005), "Pompier façon légion romaine" (Firefighters à la roman legion) * ''New_Straits_Times'', p. 28 (8_November 2005), "Fatwa against riot issued" * ''New Straits Times'', p. 28 (8_November 2005), "French violence rages on" * Rousseau, Ingrid ''Associated_Press'' (31_October 2005), "France to Step Up Security After Riots" * Gecker, Jocelyn ''Associated Press'' (2_November 2005), "French government in crisis mode" * Gecker, Jocelyn ''Associated Press'' (2_November 2005), "Seventh Day of Violence Erupts Near Paris" by * Keaten, Jamey ''Associated Press'' (3_November 2005), "French residents can only watch amid riots" * ''Sky News'' (4_November 2005), "Disabled Woman Set Ablaze". . * ''ABC News'' (4_November 2005), "Paris Riots in Perspective". . * ''New Straits Times'', p. 24. (5_November 2005), "Riots spread to suburbs". * Heneghan, Tom ''Reuters'' (5_November 2005), "Paris seeks 'hidden hands' in riots" * ''Libération'' (5_November 2005), "Il faut que Sarkozy s'excuse ou démissionne" ("Sarkozy must apologise or resign") * ''Reuters'' (6_November 2005), "France's Chirac says restoring order top priority" * Bouteldja, Naima ''Red Pepper'' "Paris is burning" (9_November 2005) * Sciolino, Elaine ''New_York_Times'' (10_November 2005), "Chirac, Lover of Spotlight, Avoids Glare of France's Fires" * ''Neue_Zürcher_Zeitung'' (11_November 2005), "Die Banlieues kommen nicht zur Ruhe" ("The suburbs do not get quiet") * ''BBC News'' (17_November 2005), "French violence back to ''normal''" * French Riots: A Failure of the Elite, Not the Republic, JURIST ==See also== * List_of_riots * French_May of 1968, the major uprising in 20th century France * L.A._riot of 1992, another example of a riot ignited by alleged police violence == External links == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} ===Video=== * French video inside a riot ===Photographs=== *Yahoo! and News photos of the riot *Reuters image gallery *La Repubblica image gallery *Pictures from the BBC *Map of affected areas as of 7_November *Flickr tags: paris riots and paris riot; and a Flickr group. {{col-2}} === Editorials === * The Guardian: Questions over the country's ability to integrate its Muslim population * ZMag: Why is France Burning? * The Economist: An underclass rebellion * Spiked Magazine: Letter from a Burning Banlieue, by Patrick Belton (who also wrote about the riots from Aulnay-sous-Bois on OxBlog) * Working Class France... by Matthieu_Kassovitz (director of the film ''La_Haine'') * It’s the demography, stupid (Free_Republic) by Mark_Steyn (right-wing editorial) * Fundamentalism in French workplace LA Times, Nov 26, 2005, Sebastian Rotella (mentions a report published shortly before unrest began) * WHY IS FRANCE BURNING? The rebellion of a lost generation, by Doug_Ireland, an indepth look at what led to the riots * Rioting in France: Le Mal Français. 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