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Riots in Île-de-France : 70 arrested after 200 cars burned
From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
July 15, 2005
About two hundred cars were burned by young people on the night of July 13 in Île-de-France, the metropolitan area of Paris. As the police cars arrived, youths began to pelt the vehicles with rocks, firecrakers and bottles. Rioters broke store windows at Argenteuil. Police used flash-balls and smoke grenades. The riots ended with 70 men being arrested. A police officer was wounded by a rocket and was taken to hospital. Shop windows were broken at Argenteuil. It is not the first time vehicles have been attacked on 13-14 July in France.
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Categories: July 15, 2005 | Crime and law | France | Europe | Published
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