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A group of ethnic minority kids has been harassing a nursery school in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, throwing rocks at teachers, parents and even the young children at the facility. Day care facility Midgård lies next to council estate Mjølnerparken, from which five or six 10 to 12-year-old boys have been causing trouble for the nursery school's personnel and patrons for the past two weeks. Although harassment from estate kids to a lesser degree has been tolerated by the facility's staff and administration for some time, the incidents over the past couple weeks have now crossed the line, said...

Dec. 11, 2003 France shuts two radical Islam nursery schools By ASSOCIATED PRESS French officials have closed two Paris region nursery schools with alleged Islamic fundamentalist tendencies, the Interior Minister announced. "Le Jardin des Enfants" and "La Tribune des Enfants" in the Hauts-de-Seine region west of the capital were shut last week after officials were alerted to their suspected ties to radical Islam and administrative irregularities. Announcing the closures, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy described the schools as "illegal schooling establishments under Salafist influence." Salafists promote a strict interpretation of Islam. Sarkozy was speaking Wednesday in parliament. He said 101 people...