[news] Riots in France Like "Urban Guerilla Warfare"

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Gangs of youths fought running battles with police Monday for a second consecutive night in a suburb north of Paris. It was an outburst many said was surprising in its intensity...Their faces hidden behind scarves and hoods, rioters used firearms and hurled Molotov cocktails, paving stones and firecrackers at cops...Cmdr. Mohamed Douhane of police union Synergie described the rioting...as "open rebellion," with youths operating like "urban guerrillas"... [Y]ouths built improvised barricades out of trash cans and rubble. Eyewitnesses described the rioters as organized and disciplined.  


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