IHT on the peace that has returned to France:

In the first three weeks of November, about 10,000 cars were torched and several hundred public buildings vandalized across France in the worst social unrest since the student-worker rebellion in 1968. Some 4,770 people were taken into custody for suspected rioting…..Cars have continued to burn every night since the riots ended, including more than 100 across France on Christmas Eve…..”The rage in the suburbs is only asleep,” said Balastik, a French youth of Mauritanian origin who has been jobless since dropping out of school seven years ago and is dreaming of a career as a rapper with his band, Styladone. “It wouldn’t take much to wake it up again.”

Can’t wait for spring.

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