URBAN REVOLT IN FRANCE: About thirty policemen injured in the eleventh night of violence .- The French Government will today announce concrete measures to tackle the crisis
A man was in a coma after the attack suffered last Friday in the town of Stains, a suburb of Paris, died today, according to his widow, making it the first fatality in the wave of urban violence in France. Throughout last night, the eleventh of unrest, at least thirty police officers were injured by buckshot from hunting weapons, more than 1,400 cars torched and nearly 400 people arrested. Two agents are in serious condition, and in a suburb of Paris, a boy of 13 months has been hospitalized after being hit by stones thrown at a bus. Ads of the French Government, which yesterday stood as a priority the restoration of order, have not borne fruit to the worst violence since May 68.
On leaving a meeting with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the widow of Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec the press expressed the hope that those responsible for the death of her husband "punished", and says that Sarkozy has promised to "do everything possible to help us." The meeting with Minister of Interior has also assisted a neighbor of the deceased, Jean-Pierre Moreau, who was attacked by the same individuals.
According to Moreau, Le Chenadec and he were at the door of his house when two men approached and one of them asked what they were saying. In answering that "our cars", one punched him in the face of the deceased and he fell to the ground. Le Chenadec and Moreau had been stoned an hour before the fatal assault in the same place, trying to prevent blazed a paper. For Moreau, which he described as "cowardly" to his attackers, since has said he approached them with his face covered, the attack was "premeditated."
Police said the clashes occurred this evening again across France, from which two weeks ago declared near Paris after the deaths of two youths electrocuted in a transformer in hiding from the forces of order. The Home Office has provided claims data from the eleventh night of violence: 1,408 vehicles burnt, 395 arrested and 30 policemen injured.
agents have been wounded in Grigny, south of the French capital shot by pellet gun and two of them, both in riot gear, have been hospitalized with serious injuries, police said. "Clearly sought to harm us," he told radio station France Indo wounded one officer, who was hit in the face. The interior minister has visited the two wounded in the hospital and met with other riot control agents. Restoring
order Yesterday was the second emergency meeting of the French Government, this time to the voice of the orders of President Jacques Chirac, who is entrusted to the law as a "last word" to end violence street. On Saturday, the minister Interior promised "firmness and justice" and threatened with harsh prison sentences; hours later lived the tenth night of urban revolt is tearing the French model of integration.
On Saturday, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, held an emergency meeting of eight ministers and then filtered through a Sarkozy-tough message could not cowering to the dawn. Yesterday, Chirac took a step forward and emerged from the shadows that had sheltered several days to call a special meeting of the Homeland Security Council (cabinet crisis which holds monthly meetings.) In addition to De Villepin and Sarkozy attended by Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, Justice, Pascal Clément, Employment, Jean-Louis Borloo, Economy, Thierry Breton, and Education, Gilles de Robien. Although
had been leaked to the press that there would be no public statements, Chirac said yesterday at the end of the meeting that "the law will have the last word," troublemakers "will be arrested, tried and punished," and the measures announced De Villepin will be announced today. "The absolute priority of [the government] is the restoration of security and public order. The Republic is determined by nature to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear, "he added.
By early afternoon yesterday de Villepin and Sarkozy met with heads of law enforcement in the neighborhoods most affected. Interior Minister repeated: "Those who commit such actions will be held accountable before justice." Earlier, the Ministry of Justice said prison sentences up to one year for some of those tried by these riots. The left, in opposition, Chirac lashed out yesterday against opening of the first social secretary, François Hollande, who said: "I would like to hear the words of Jacques Chirac today not just compassion (...) y un silencio molesto: hay que asumir sus responsabilidades”.
Source : El Pais
On leaving a meeting with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the widow of Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec the press expressed the hope that those responsible for the death of her husband "punished", and says that Sarkozy has promised to "do everything possible to help us." The meeting with Minister of Interior has also assisted a neighbor of the deceased, Jean-Pierre Moreau, who was attacked by the same individuals.
According to Moreau, Le Chenadec and he were at the door of his house when two men approached and one of them asked what they were saying. In answering that "our cars", one punched him in the face of the deceased and he fell to the ground. Le Chenadec and Moreau had been stoned an hour before the fatal assault in the same place, trying to prevent blazed a paper. For Moreau, which he described as "cowardly" to his attackers, since has said he approached them with his face covered, the attack was "premeditated."
Police said the clashes occurred this evening again across France, from which two weeks ago declared near Paris after the deaths of two youths electrocuted in a transformer in hiding from the forces of order. The Home Office has provided claims data from the eleventh night of violence: 1,408 vehicles burnt, 395 arrested and 30 policemen injured.
agents have been wounded in Grigny, south of the French capital shot by pellet gun and two of them, both in riot gear, have been hospitalized with serious injuries, police said. "Clearly sought to harm us," he told radio station France Indo wounded one officer, who was hit in the face. The interior minister has visited the two wounded in the hospital and met with other riot control agents. Restoring
order Yesterday was the second emergency meeting of the French Government, this time to the voice of the orders of President Jacques Chirac, who is entrusted to the law as a "last word" to end violence street. On Saturday, the minister Interior promised "firmness and justice" and threatened with harsh prison sentences; hours later lived the tenth night of urban revolt is tearing the French model of integration.
On Saturday, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, held an emergency meeting of eight ministers and then filtered through a Sarkozy-tough message could not cowering to the dawn. Yesterday, Chirac took a step forward and emerged from the shadows that had sheltered several days to call a special meeting of the Homeland Security Council (cabinet crisis which holds monthly meetings.) In addition to De Villepin and Sarkozy attended by Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, Justice, Pascal Clément, Employment, Jean-Louis Borloo, Economy, Thierry Breton, and Education, Gilles de Robien. Although
had been leaked to the press that there would be no public statements, Chirac said yesterday at the end of the meeting that "the law will have the last word," troublemakers "will be arrested, tried and punished," and the measures announced De Villepin will be announced today. "The absolute priority of [the government] is the restoration of security and public order. The Republic is determined by nature to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear, "he added.
By early afternoon yesterday de Villepin and Sarkozy met with heads of law enforcement in the neighborhoods most affected. Interior Minister repeated: "Those who commit such actions will be held accountable before justice." Earlier, the Ministry of Justice said prison sentences up to one year for some of those tried by these riots. The left, in opposition, Chirac lashed out yesterday against opening of the first social secretary, François Hollande, who said: "I would like to hear the words of Jacques Chirac today not just compassion (...) y un silencio molesto: hay que asumir sus responsabilidades”.
Source : El Pais
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