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Paris march planned amid unrest
Residents from riot-torn suburbs were to march in Paris on Friday, Armistice Day, marking the end of the second world war waving white handkerchiefs to call for an end to more than two weeks of violence.
Meanwhile, President Jacques Chirac acknowledged that France must confront the inequalities and discrimination that fuelled the unrest, amid violence that continued on its 15th night, Thursday-Friday, under state-of-emergency measures and heavy policing
More vehicles were set alight in suburban areas. By 4am (0300 GMT) on Friday seven policemen had been injured, four of them in the eastern city of Lyon, 395 vehicles burned and 168 people detained for questioning across France, compared to 394 torched vehicles and 169 arrests the night before, police said.
Arson was suspected in a fire that destroyed a village hall south of the French capital overnight, but no one was hurt, police and firefighters said.
Appearing publicly for the second time since rioting began, Chirac said: "The re-establishment of order is for me an absolute priority ... which has not yet been achieved."
"When the time comes and order has been established, it will be necessary to draw all the consequences from this crisis and do it with much courage and lucidity," the president told journalists.
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More vehicles were set alight in suburban areas. By 4am (0300 GMT) on Friday seven policemen had been injured, four of them in the eastern city of Lyon, 395 vehicles burned and 168 people detained for questioning across France, compared to 394 torched vehicles and 169 arrests the night before, police said.
Arson was suspected in a fire that destroyed a village hall south of the French capital overnight, but no one was hurt, police and firefighters said.
Appearing publicly for the second time since rioting began, Chirac said: "The re-establishment of order is for me an absolute priority ... which has not yet been achieved."
"When the time comes and order has been established, it will be necessary to draw all the consequences from this crisis and do it with much courage and lucidity," the president told journalists.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5060FB8D-1FDE-425D-AC9C-60F3104E4AF7.htm
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· Foreign nationals guilty of rioting to be deported
Jon Henley in Paris and Luke Harding in Berlin
Thursday November 10, 2005
The Guardian
Some 40 French towns and suburbs, ravaged by 13 nights of rioting, were yesterday given powers to impose emergency measures, including curfews, as further details emerged of a government aid package for depressed suburbs.
Officials said France's worst urban violence in 40 years seemed to be running out of steam, with half as many cars going up in flames in half as many towns as on previous nights. "We are seeing a sharp drop in hostile acts," said the national police chief, Michel Gaudin.
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