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Article: Adding Fuel to the Fire.(World Affairs)(social unrest; car fires)
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- Newsweek International
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- December 17, 2007
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Byline: Tracy McNicoll
Thousands of vehicles are set ablaze each year in France. Blame the urban planners -- and the media.
The spark was a collision between a motorbike and a police car in a neighborhood north of Paris. Two teenagers died, and for days afterward the world once again turned its gaze upon France's troubled suburbs. Two nights of intense rioting left 119 police officers injured, and two schools and a library in flames. The images called to mind the 2005 riots, which spread to 300 neighborhoods across France over three weeks. Yet despite reports from some of the foreign press that the riots were raging for a third night, a police-union ...
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