CNN. Disorder hits France. "Zones without law cannot exist in the republic," Chirac said.
The unrest, triggered last week by the deaths of two teenagers, spread Tuesday night to at least nine towns in the suburbs north and northeast of Paris as police clashed with angry youths and dozens of vehicles were set on fire. On Tuesday night, the sixth straight night of unrest, some 150 fires were reported in cars, buildings and garbage bins in the suburbs across the Seine-Saint-Denis region on the north and northeast of Paris, France-Info radio said. The area is home mainly to families of immigrant origin, often from Muslim North Africa, AP said. It is marked by soaring unemployment, delinquency and other urban ills.
The radicalization of even a small segment (as opposed to small groups of individuals we saw in the UK) of a "western" population could become a very dangerous threat if it leads them to become (or emulate) global guerrillas. If connected to the open source warfare pulsing in Iraq, it could lead to a spoiler of horizontal scenarios that states would find difficult to contend with.
UPDATE: Open source organizational structures: A national police spokesman, Patrick Hamon, said there appeared to be no coordination between gangs in the various riot-hit suburbs. He said, however, that neighborhood youths were communicating between themselves using cell phone text messaging or e-mails to arrange meeting points and alert each other to police.
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