Tuesday, November 27, 2007

BBC: Unemployment Causes Riotous Jihad

Associated Press:

Rampaging youths rioted overnight in Paris' suburbs, hurling Molotov cocktails and setting fire to dozens of cars. At least 77 officers were injured and officers were fired at, a senior police union official said Tuesday.

The violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. Police were shot at and are facing "genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," Ribeiro said.


BBC:

Correspondents say a third of the 26,000 inhabitants in Villiers-le-Bel are under 24 and jobs are hard to come by.


Because, nothing says "Hire us!" quite like rampaging gangs of thugs torching storefronts and hunting police officers.

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