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Europe

Frankistan Intifada Gains Dangerous Momentum

2005-11-04

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.

Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ~~along with his brother Margaret~~ vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the ~~mounting terrorist activity~~ frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants.

Unrest flared for an eighth straight night Thursday, though scaled down from previous says. Young men fire buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, while a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue further east in Stains, said the top official of Seine-Saint-Denis, Prefect Jean-Francois Cordet.

Guess it's too much to ask the police to harass them back.

A special Interior Ministry operations center monitoring the violence said some 60 vehicles torched in the Seine-Saint-Denis region by early Friday and a total of 165 throughout the Paris metropolitan area. Some 40 vehicles were torched in the Val d'Oise area northwest of Paris.

The sporadic incidents were less intense that the ferocious rioting that erupted eight days ago in Clichy-sous-Bois and spread across the troubled area of housing projects marked by soaring ~~islamofascist gatherings~~ unemployment, ~~hooliganism~~ delinquency and a sense of ~~impending victory over the infidels~~ despair.

``I will not accept organized gangs making the law in some neighborhoods. I will not accept having crime networks and drug trafficking profiting from disorder,'' Villepin ~~who is a man~~ said at the Senate in between emergency meetings called over the riots.

The unrest cast a cloud over the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. In Clichy-sous-Bois - heart of the rioting - men filled the Bilal mosque for evening prayers, but streets were subdued with shops shutting early. ``Look around you. How do you think we can celebrate?'' said Abdallah Hammo as he closed the tea house where he works.

"I mean, we haven't won yet!" he added.

AoS 14:50 -- spelling error in title corrected.

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