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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 6 november 2019

Anti-police violence surges in the tough suburbs of Paris

By JOHN LEICESTER and thundering explosions.
Associated Press Unlike the riots of 2005,
PARIS (AP) — A resurgence which were sparked by
of anti-police violence has the deaths of two teen-
emerged in the long-trou- age boys electrocuted in
bled towns around Paris, a power substation as of-
signs that lawlessness still ficers were chasing them,
simmers in French urban the latest attacks have no
hotspots that exploded in obvious trigger. And while
three weeks of rioting in rioters in 2005 seethed with
2005. anger over deep-seated
Violence on Saturday night perceived social and eco-
in Chanteloup-les-Vignes nomic injustices, those at-
and recent flare-ups in tacking police now seem
other tough neighbor- simply to be reveling in their
hoods west of Paris have violence.
not matched the inten- The sustained violence in
sity or destructiveness of 2005 prompted much soul-
the unrest that spread searching about France's
to hundreds of towns in failure to integrate its mil-
2005. But French authori- In this photo taken on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, a view of the charred debris of a circus in Chanteloup- lions of immigrants and
ties are alarmed because les-Vignes, west of Paris. their French-born children
the violence appears pre- Associated Press living in desolate housing
planned, with ambushes hoods are competing for social media. about a fire, they pounced. projects blighted by high
deliberately set to target bragging rights in their at- In Chanteloup-les-Vignes, Under cover of darkness, unemployment and limited
police. tacks and are reveling hooded attackers hid in roaming youths showered prospects.
Police union officials sus- in the media coverage bushes, waiting to spring officers with projectiles and Those concerns remain un-
pect that rival gangs from they're generating, even their trap. When police ar- powerful fireworks that filled resolved, nearly 15 years
different tough neighbor- egging each other on in rived, responding to calls the night skies with sparks later.q

Germany’s Merkel: Discontent doesn’t bring ‘right to hatred’

Associated Press strong in the ex-communist care, government action
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor east, where many people overall or your own life, that
Angela Merkel says that still feel disadvantaged, 30 doesn't lead to a right to
disillusionment and discon- years after German reunifi- hatred or disdain for other
tent with the German gov- cation. people or even violence,"
ernment don't give people Asked about those elec- she added. "We live in free-
any "right to hatred," an al- tion performances, Merkel dom — people can speak
lusion to a far-right party's acknowledged in an in- and vote accordingly,"
strong recent election per- terview with Der Spiegel Merkel said. She stressed
formance in eastern Ger- magazine published Tues- that her job is to serve ev-
many. Alternative for Ger- day that some people and eryone in Germany — "so
many, or AfD, has polled regions in eastern Germany the assumption that I should
over 20% and finished sec- haven't had it easy. take care primarily of the
ond in state elections in "But one must also say interests of eastern Ger- German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in a park after laying
Saxony, Brandenburg and clearly 30 years later: Even mans is wrong but, if you down flowers at a memorial place and freshly planted trees for
the victims of the neo-Nazi 'Nationalist Socialist Underground'
Thuringia in the past two if you are not satisfied with follow it, it of course leads NSU in Zwickau, eastern Germany, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019.
months. It is particularly public transport, medical to disappointment."q Associated Press