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Violence in Paris suburbs spreads
It is what France's leaders had dreaded.
The violence that broke out more than a week ago in an impoverished Parisian suburb has spread to other cities.
Rioters set hundreds of cars on fire in poor, largely immigrant districts around the French capital on Thursday night.
However police reported fewer clashes than on previous nights. Some 80 people were arrested.
The pattern of violence appeared to have changed from crowds fighting with police to targeted arson attacks.
A 56-year-old disabled bus passenger was badly burned when rioters poured petrol on the vehicle and set it alight.
Warehouses, shops and even schools were torched.
One local mayor described it as inexplicable, blind violence.
Trouble spread from Paris to other French towns, including Dijon, Rouen and Marseille.
In Dijon more than 10 cars were damaged. Some people there blame Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's hardline stance.
One man said: "This is because of what he says. He wants to hose us down. We are not dirt. It is like the suburbs of May 1968. It is starting again."
West of Paris at Trappes, 27 buses were gutted by fire.
"Every day we come to work here. A disaster like this is hard to believe, it's sickening," said one man.
Extra police will be on the streets of Paris again tonight and cities across France with similar urban tensions are likely to be on high alert too. |
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