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Sarkozy calls security meeting
after fresh unrest
Thierry Chiarello
Reuters
Tuesday November 27, 2007
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will summon senior
aides to a security meeting when he returns from China on Wednesday,
after a second night of violence in Paris suburbs left around
80 police hurt.
Prime Minister Francois Fillon and Interior Minister Michele
Alliot-Marie would be among officials at the meeting, Sarkozy's
spokesman David Martinon said in a statement on Tuesday.
Sarkozy will first visit a senior police officer seriously hurt
in Villiers-le-Bel, Martinon said, referring to the suburb north
of Paris where the deaths of two youths in a crash with a police
car on Sunday sparked the latest unrest.
The deaths and the subsequent violence revived memories of the
prolonged riots of two years ago, when thousands of cars were
torched after two teenagers were electrocuted in a power sub-station
while apparently fleeing police.
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The 2005 disturbances were the worst civil unrest in France for
40 years and many blamed the harsh rhetoric of Sarkozy, who was
interior minister at the time, for stoking the violence.
This time around, Sarkozy has called for calm and observers said
the low-key government response to date suggested it wanted to
avoid exacerbating tensions in France's deprived, ethnically diverse
suburbs where relations with police are poor.
The latest disturbances distracted from Sarkozy's success in
clinching billions of euros of contracts for French firms in China,
and provided a new headache for a young presidency which has been
buffeted in recent weeks by transport strikes and student protests
over his reforms.
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