A motorcycle kamikaze attack on a police car in Villiers le Bel was the signal to take up arms again in this chapter of the French Intifada. Nidra Poller:

At least twenty policemen have been injured so far tonight (forty injured last night according to the latest figures), some of them critically. The insurgents are using firebombs, iron rods, baseball bats, and firing buckshot. Journalists are attacked, their cameras are stolen…

Cars, dumpsters, and buildings have been torched. A school gym has gone up in flames. Shop windows that weren’t smashed last night are targets tonight.

Police investigators and several eyewitnesses corroborate the patrolmen’s version of the accident. The police car was going at a normal speed, no sirens, no hot pursuit. The mini-motorcycle came down a side street at high speed and made a left turn, crashing directly into the police car. The police remained on the scene for approximately twenty to thirty minutes until the fire department ambulance arrived.

It has been two years now since the first uprising in Seine-Saint-Denis. That episode lasted several weeks and spread to 300 cities in France. We’ll see what happens this time.

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