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Calm returns to French city after riots
12:01 (GMT+2), Wed, 15 August 2012
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Tensions appear to have subsided in a northern French city after police fanned out overnight to prevent a repeat of riots that left a school in ashes.
Residents of housing projects in Amiens' northern district said Wednesday they remain alert for fresh skirmishes, because relations between police and youth in the neighborhood have long been strained.
More than 200 riot police were stationed in the area Tuesday night and Wednesday morning after around 100 young people rampaged through the district Monday night, firing buckshot at police, torching a pre-school and gym and pulling drivers from cars.
Salah Boucebsi, who lives in the area hit by Monday's violence, said the lack of prospects for youth might have driven the rioting. "There is no work, 65 percent of them don't have anything."
Source : Sapa
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