Anyone out there that can shed some more light on this situation? If you are familiar with French culture, that would be a plus.
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (CP) – France’s government went into crisis mode Wednesday to deal with spreading rioting in the suburbs of Paris, with the prime minister postponing a trip to Canada and the president calling for calm.
In tough northeastern suburbs around Clichy-sous-Bois, where the accidental deaths of two teenagers last week first prompted angry youths to rampage, the hulks of burned-out cars littered streets and young men prepared for a seventh consecutive night of fighting with riot police.
Leaders at Clichy-sous-Bois’ mosque prayed for peace and asked parents to keep teenagers off the streets.
The violence, which spread to at least nine Paris-region towns overnight Tuesday, laid bare the despair, anger and deep-rooted criminality in France’s poor, unemployment-hit suburbs – some of them ghettos where police hesitate to venture despite proof they are fertile terrain for Islamic extremists, drug dealers and racketeers.
The unrest, concentrated in neighbourhoods with large African and Muslim populations, has highlighted the difficulties many European countries face with immigrant communities feeling marginalized and restive, cut off from Europe’s prosperity and, for some extremists, its values.
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