Politics and Culture

It brings me no Schadenfreudian thrill (I sometimes get that feeling from some blogs and web sites- not to name names) to report that France is once again suffering through interacial, intergenerational, intercultural, interreligious, intervalues, or interclass conflict (depending on your position on the political spectrum). I don't grasp the whole issue so I won't comment. This seems like one of those Rorschach issues upon which people project their world view. I won't do that, but I hope they get over it.

Follow up:

PARIS, France (CNN) -- The Paris suburbs were again rocked by riots after a second night of lawlessness Monday caused widespread destruction and left scores of police injured, according to French authorities and media reports.
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Firefighters in a Paris suburb battle to control a blaze started after youths rioted Sunday night.

An angry mob repeatedly clashed with riot police and torched cars and buildings in the town of Villiers-le-Bel, north of Paris, after two teens on a motorcycle were killed following a collision with a police car Sunday night.

Rioters bombarded police with baseball bats, Molotov cocktail bombs and bottles filled with acid as the violence spread to the nearby towns of Longjumeau and Grigby Monday night.

The 15- and 16-year-old boys, both sons of African immigrants, according to police, died when their motorbike hit a patrol car in Villiers-le-Bel.

Some residents, populated largely by immigrants and their French-born children, accused police of fleeing the crash scene. However, three eyewitnesses, interviewed on TV, said the police stayed and tried to revive the two boys with mouth to mouth resuscitation.