6.11.05

Uma solução política...

  • "authorities now say the rolling nightly riots are being organised via the Internet and mobile phones, and have pointed the finger at drug traffickers and Islamist militants."

    [Daily Telegraph]

  • "Government officials have held a series of meetings with Muslim religious leaders, local officials and youths from poor suburbs to try to calm the violence.

    The director of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, one of the country's leading Muslim figures, met Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Saturday and urged the government to choose its words carefully and send a message of peace.

    [Associated Press]

  • Jean-Louis Debre, mayor Evreux and speaker of the lower house of parliament, told France Info radio: "To those responsible for the violence, I want to say: Be serious… If you want to live in a fairer, more fraternal society, this is not how to go about it."

    [Associated Press]

  • On Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people marched through one of the worst-hit suburbs, Aulnay-sous-Bois. Local officials wore sashes in the red, white and blue of the French flag as they filed past housing projects and the wrecks of burned cars. One white banner read, "No to violence."

    [Daily Telegraph]
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