POLICE PREDICTING NEW ROUND OF VIOLENCE IN FRENCH SUBURBS

PARIS October 16, 2006 (AFP) - A crescendo of outraged alarm from police unions has been triggered by three serious clashes in tough estates near the capital, where officers were stoned and beaten by gangs of youths, as well as by figures showing a growing defiance towards the forces of law and order.

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In the latest attack on Friday night in the southern Paris 'banlieue' of Epinay-sur-Seine, three officers were ambushed in their patrol car and set upon by around 30 youths with stones and metal bars. According to police, shots were even fired by one of the assailants. The squad used "flash-ball" stun-guns and fired their hand weapons in the air to deter the crowd, but was only rescued when reinforcements arrived on the scene. One officer was hospitalised, requiring 30 stitches on his face.

... [Bruno Beschizza of the Synergie Officiers union:] "In the last month there has been a change. Now it is like they want to kill."

"These guys came to kill. They were hooded and they had baseball bats and iron bars," Joaquin Masanet, of the UNSA union, told Libération newspaper of the incident in Epinay.

Another union — Action Police — said in a statement: "It shows that what we are dealing with here is not youths in need of more social aid, but individuals declaring war on the Republic."

Some 480 incidents of this type were recorded in September — a 30 percent increase on August, Le Monde said. And it quoted interior ministry figures showing that 2,458 police officers were hurt on service in the first six months of the year — compared to 4,246 for the whole of 2005 [about a 14% increase].

"Behind the statistics police specialists detect a harder, better organised type of delinquency. However they are unwilling to draw definitive conclusions about the increase in attacks on police," Le Monde said.

UPDATE: The Telegraph gives a harrowing description of what was plainly a planned ambush in Epinay-sur-Seine:

The three officers from the anti-crime brigade, BAC, entered the Orgemont housing estate after an anonymous caller reported a violent car theft.

Once inside, their exit was barred and they were set upon by around 50 youths, who pelted the men with stones. Iron bars smashed their windscreen. They tried to reverse, but a second vehicle boxed them in.

The criminals fled only after the officers fired live ammunition into the air and police reinforcements arrived.

The French police, like Cassandra, already see the grim future. Soon someone will be killed and all Hell will break loose.

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