THREE POLICE HURT IN MORE PARIS SUBURB CLASHES

EVRY, France June 6, 2006 (AFP) - Three police officers and two emergency workers were hurt in clashes with scores of youth* in a southern Paris suburb late Monday, a police source said.

Molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at the police who responded with teargas and disabling flash-balls during the unrest involving 50-100 youths at the Grande Borne housing estate in the town of Grigny.

The violence lasted some 45 minutes as masked youths set one car ablaze and destroyed phone boxes and bus shelters.

No one was arrested in the violence and the injuries were said to be light.

The unrest follows similar clashes in two northern Paris suburbs last week and raises fears of a repeat of last November's nationwide riots.

Who are the mysterious "youths" attacking France? Some believe the youths are 100% French crashing into the good life of France. Others report they are French in name but hostile to France in allegiance and comportment. And others think they are racaille, which doesn't narrow the mystery much but does suggest a sense of menace that the word "youths", by design, does not. Tout va très bien.

* Absolutely no Muslims sighted during the writing of this report.

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