No Go area : Amiens, France

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No Go area : Amiens, France

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The violence followed smaller-scale clashes 24 hours earlier which were triggered by the arrest of a man for dangerous driving.
The arrest was seen as insensitive as it came as many residents of the neighbourhood were attending a wake for a local 20-year-old who had died in a motorbike accident.
Gilles Demailly, the mayor of Amiens, told AFP the violent response to the incident reflected a descent into lawlessness orchestrated by ever younger troublemakers and put the damage at "millions of euros."
"There have been regular incidents here but it has been years since we've known a night as violent as this with so much damage done," the mayor said.
Demailly, a member of Hollande's Socialist Party, added: "For months I've been asking for the means (to alleviate the neighbourhood's problems) because tension has been mounting here.
"You've got gangs of youths playing at being gangsters who have turned the area into a no-go zone. You can no longer order a pizza or get a doctor to come to the house."
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Valls said 17 police officers were hurt in the rioting, some hit by shotgun pellets, others by a hail of objects thrown by around 100 youths gathered in the city's northern districts.
"Firearms! Can it be considered normal that people turn firearms on police? It's unacceptable ... law and order must be restored," Valls told a news conference, adding that a minority of people were terrorizing the local community.
One officer was in serious condition, the city's Socialist Mayor Gilles Demailly told Reuters.
Hollande, who ordered Valls to break off their joint visit to southeastern France and travel to Amiens, said too little money had been put into security in recent years.
"Our priority is security which means that the next budget will include additional resources for the gendarmerie and the police," he said.
The unrest was the first major law and order test for Hollande's Socialists since his May election victory over conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, whose tough policies on crime and immigration some critics said fanned urban unrest.
Ahmed, a 27-year-old jobless man who refused to give his family name, revealed the sense of anger some locals felt.
"Yesterday our little brothers did a good job," he said. "Imagine if we got involved, then it would get serious. It's a shame nobody got killed yesterday."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/ ... 8320120814
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