The New American via Alliance Alert.
Three years after their first car-burning spasm of mayhem, vandalism, and violence, those “restive youths” in Paris are at it again. This time, the Associated Press reports, they are rioting in Bagnolet, a suburb of Paris. And as with the last time, the media are reluctant to explain who the “restive youths” are. That is because the “angry youths,” as another report blandly described them, are mainly North African Muslims.
The situation in Bagnolet is a reprise of the rioting that sent Paris up in flames in 2005. According to the AP, “Restive youths in a Paris suburb torched a tourist bus and nearly a half-dozen cars and hurled objects at police early Tuesday, a night after full blown unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.”
So not only is the rioting a reprise of 2005; so is what triggered it: “Some witnesses claimed a police car hit [a] young motorcyclist after he tried to flee a document check outside the project.” Police say the teenager lost control of his motorcycle and wrecked. In, 2005, two teenagers were electrocuted in a power substation trying to hide from police.
Why? Because Bagnolet is a no-go zone. One out of 751.
He will be buried today (T&P translation):
The funerals of the 18-year-old dead on Sunday at Bagnolet, while he was trying to get away from the police riding a motorcycle, will be held tomorrow (that is today) in Paris. Bobigny’s Police (Setine-Saint-Denis) which leads the investigation, has in fact given the authorisation to give back the corpse to the family.
According to sources close to the family, who have asked for anonimity, Yakou Sanago will be buried in a Muslim cemetery in Paris region. “The family wants to bury their son in privacy“, has one of them stated.
The young man’s death has been followed by some incidents on Sunday, when groups of angry youths blamed the police for the Sanago’s death. Version contradicted by Bobigny Police, who has announced that he was death after “thoracic injury” caused by a stroking violently himself against metallic bars riding his motorcycle.
The autopsy has not discovered any other injury and, according the prosecutor, “at this moment, nothing points to any contact between the police car following him and the young Sanogo”.
France 24 has a video on the incidents.
On Monday the incidents have continued, despite the result of the autopsy.
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