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Seems the violence is becoming an annual thing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_re_eu/france_suburban_violence

Seems to me, spinning events like this by the press is the problem:

Last year's events jolted France into recognizing its failure to offer its 5 million Muslims, and its minorities — especially those of Arab and black African origin — a fair shake. Instead of France's vaunted "egalite," or equality, immigrants and their French-born children suffer police harassment, struggle to find work, and live in cinderblock public housing rife with crime and poverty.