The uprising in france has been sudden and surprising. The fact is that trouble didn't start on one day, the bomb was just waiting to explode, all it needed was a spark and that was provided on 27th october when two teenagers were electrocuted by accident.
If some of you have not been uptodate then this is a brief of what happened.
Oct - 27th -- Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, two youth of North african origin are electrocuted at a power substation where they hide from police in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
29 October: As unrest creeps across the Seine-Saint-Denis administrative region, a silent march to remember Zyed and Bouna is held in Clichy-sous-Bois by mourners in T-shirts reading "dead for nothing"
Oct. 31 -- Unrest spreads to at least nine Paris suburbs, with youths lobbing gasoline bombs at cars, shops and municipal buildings.
2 November -- Rioters ransack a police station at Aulnay-sous-Bois, 177 vehicles are burnt.
3 November -- more than 400 cars burnt
4th and 5th November -- 750 and >1200 Cars burnt respectively, Riots spread to many areas.
7th november -- First Human Fatality, Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, 61, dies of injuries he received in an assault on Friday in the town of Stains
Nov. 8 -- Chirac declares a state of emergency that paves the way for curfews in riot-hit cities.It is the first time the 1955 law has been implemented on mainland France.
A question to be asked is how the French government failed to take notice of an issue that that has been brewing over the years. That Most of the riots took place in Muslim populated areas is only incidental, and an indication of the failure of French government to have taken enough measures to pacify the sentiments of a major community. The segregation policies and prevailing high unemployement rates, mainly among a particular sector of immigrant population is also cited to be one of the causes of the issue.
The Blog community also seems to have played a important part in spreading the riot message. Many blogs with calls for riots have been banned and a few arrests have also been made.
With so much of unrest happening, I would pray that France restores to normalcy at the earliest.
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its so bad that riots are happenings at a rapid pace... ireland had one a month or two back... just hope that peace restores...
["I would pray that France restores to normalcy at the earliest."] ... this final stamenet of urs made me think about "normalcy"... probably what we want is not normalcy but peace as now "normalcy" is getting associated with wars/riots/fights/etc...
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