My Own Thoughts

The Times Online, UK says a year after the France riots started, each day 112 cars are torched and 15 police or emergency services are attacked.

Before next week’s anniversary of the Clichy riots, the violence and despair on the estates are again to the fore. Despite a promised renaissance, little has changed, and the lid could blow at any moment.

The figures are stark. An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some police talk of open war with youths who are bent on more than vandalism.

“The thing that has changed over the past month is that they now want to kill us,” said Bruno Beschizza, the leader of Synergie, a union to which 40 per cent of officers belong. . .

Car-burning has become so routine on the estates that it has been eclipsed in news coverage by the violence against police.

Found via Cronaca, one of my daily reads.