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போன வருச கலவரத்துல கடப்பாறையையும் கல்லையும் கத்தியையும் பயன்படுத்தின இசுலாமியருங்க இந்த வருச கலவரத்துல கைத்துப்பாக்கியையும் பயன்படுத்தியிருக்காங்களாம்ம்...மதானி இசுடைல்லுல பஸ்சை எரிச்சுருக்கானுவ.

Youths set buses afire near Paris before first anniversary of riots

By CECILE BRISSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
10/27/2006

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Associated Press
A security officer stands near a burned-out bus in Nanterre. Youths set fire to three buses near Paris ahead of today's first anniversary of riots in France's heavily immigrant housing projects.

PARIS - Youths forced passengers off three buses and set the vehicles on fire in suburban Paris in nighttime attacks.
No injuries were reported, but worried bus drivers refused to enter some areas after dark Thursday. The prime minister urged a swift, stern response.
Riots raged through housing projects a year ago today on the outskirts of cities nationwide, springing in part from anger over entrenched discrimination against immigrants and their French-born children, many of them Muslims from former French colonies in Africa.

Despite an influx of funds and promises since then, disenchantment still thrives in those communities. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a leading contender for next year's presidential elections whose hard-line stance has angered many in the neighborhoods, promised to track down those who set the buses on fire.
"The people responsible should know that we are after them . . . and they will face severe punishment," he said.

He pledged to assign police officers to protect public buses. He said he hoped to avoid suspending public transport to sectors judged to be high-risk.

A police union said more than 500 extra riot police have been assigned to Paris' suburbs to beef up security there ahead of the anniversary of the riots. About 10 attackers - five of them armed with handguns - stormed a bus in Montreuil, east of Paris, early Thursday and forced the passengers off, the RATP transport authority said. They then drove off and set the bus on fire. The bus driver was treated for shock, the RATP said.

The handguns were unusual - last year's rioters were armed primarily with crowbars, stones, sticks or gasoline bombs.

Late Wednesday, three attackers forced passengers off another bus in Athis-Mons, south of Paris, and tossed a gasoline bomb inside, police said. The driver put out the fire.

In another attack Wednesday night, between six and 10 youths herded passengers off a bus in the western community of Nanterre and set it on fire.

France's inability to better integrate minorities and recent violence are becoming major political issues as the campaign heats up for next year's presidential and parliamentary elections.

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