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FRENCH ELECTION UPDATE : Street Violence by Paris Youths Intrudes Again Into French Politics
The New York Times ^ | March 29, 2007 | KATRIN BENNHOLD
Posted on 03/29/2007 2:06:12 PM PDT by Cincinna
PARIS -France’s top presidential candidates seized on a new campaign issue on Wednesday after the police fought gangs of youths for seven hours at a railroad station here. Stores were destroyed, the pall of tear gas filled the station, Gare du Nord, and 13 people were arrested.
The episode, described as “urban guerrilla warfare” by the new interior minister, François Baroin, was a reminder of the tensions still simmering 18 months after rioting swept immigrant neighborhoods across France. It foreshadowed the task ahead for the candidate who is elected president in May.
The police said the trouble began Tuesday afternoon at the subway station at Gare du Nord when an illegal immigrant from Congo jumped a turnstile and then tried to punch an agent who demanded to see his ticket.
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March 29, 2007
"A word from Sergeant Krueger"
SNIPPET: "Sergeant Stephen Krueger writes from Iraq to Speaker Pelosi with a message that bears on our post "To our readers in Iraq." Sergeant Krueger writes:"
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Thanks, Cindy.
I wonder if France is growing weary of their "youth" yet?