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{{2005 French riots}}
[[Image:Strasbourg torched car.jpg|thumb|A car burns in [[Strasbourg]], France on the night of 5 November as riots spread from the Paris banlieues to other parts of the country.]]
The following is a '''timeline of the [[2005 French
==First week==
* '''Thursday, October 27''' – 1st night of rioting
** Gangs, mostly consisting of hundreds of youths, clashed with police, throwing rocks and [[Molotov cocktail]]s at police forces and firefighters, setting cars on fire, and vandalizing buildings. A shot was reportedly fired at police.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 29, 2005 |title=Third night of trouble in Paris suburb following teenage deaths |work=Yahoo! |agency=Agence France-Presse |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051030/wl_afp/franceriotpolice_051030022906|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051112210102/https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051030/wl_afp/franceriotpolice_051030022906 |archive-date=November 12, 2005}}</ref>
** Police fired [[tear gas]] at the rioters. About 27 people were detained. 17 police officers and 3 journalists were wounded. The number of rioters and bystanders injured is not known.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 1, 2005 |title=3 in rioting in suburb of Paris get jail terms |work=International Herald Tribune |agency=The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/31/news/france.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051103032612/http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/31/news/france.php |archive-date=November 3, 2005}}</ref>
* '''
** Rioters in Clichy-sous-Bois apparently set more than 30 cars alight and made barricades of those cars, along with dustbins, which firefighters worked to clear away.
** At least 200 riot police and crowds of young rioters clashed in on-and-off, running battles, on the night of the 28th and the early morning of the 29th.<ref name="auto3">{{cite web | last=Burke|first=Jason |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1604595,00.html | title=Fires of 'civil war' erupt in Paris | date=30 October 2005 |work=The Observer}}</ref>
* '''Saturday, 29 October''' – 3rd night of rioting
** About 500 people took part in a silent march through Clichy-sous-Bois, in memory of the teenagers.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4388536.stm | title=Silent march follows Paris riots | date=30 October 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref> Representatives of the Muslim community appealed for calm and dignity at the procession. Marchers wore [[t-shirt]]s printed with the message ''mort pour rien'' <!-- sic, the singular--> "dead for nothing".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051029/wl_afp/franceriotpolice|title=France riot police}}{{dead link|date=November 2022}}</ref>
* '''Sunday, 30 October''' – 4th night of rioting
** A tear gas grenade was launched into the [[mosque]] of the Cité des Bousquets, on what for Muslims is the holiest night of the holy month of [[Ramadan]]. Police denied responsibility but acknowledged that it was the same type used by French riot police. Speaking to 170 police officers at Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture in [[Bobigny]] (the local authority overseeing Clichy-sous-Bois), Nicolas Sarkozy said, "I am, of course, available to the Imam of the Clichy mosque to let him have all the details in order to understand how and why a tear gas bomb was sent into this mosque." Eyewitnesses also reported that police called women emerging from the mosque "whores" and other names.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/327207.html | title=Eye Witness Accounts from France |work= UK Indymedia | date = 4 November 2005}}</ref>
* '''Monday, 31 October''' – 5th night of rioting
** It was reported that the rioting had spread to other parts of [[Seine-Saint-Denis]]. In nearby [[Montfermeil]], the municipal police garage was set on fire.
** Michel Thooris, an official of police trade union Action Police CFTC (who only represents a minority of the police civil servants), described the unrest as a "civil war" and called on the [[French Army]] to intervene.<ref name="auto3"/>
* '''Tuesday, 1 November''' – 6th night of rioting
** Rioting had spread to nine other suburbs, across which 69 vehicles were torched.<ref name="auto5">{{cite web | url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327075831/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174227,00.html | archive-date=27 March 2013 | title=Riots Plague Paris Suburbs for Sixth Night| website=[[Fox News]] |date=2 November 2005|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
** A total of 150 [[arson]] attacks on garbage cans, vehicles and buildings were reported.<ref name="auto5"/>
** The unrest was particularly intense in [[Sevran]], [[Aulnay-sous-Bois]] and [[Bondy]], all in the [[Seine-Saint-Denis]] region, which is considered to be a "sensitive area of immigration and modest incomes."
** In Sevran, youths set fire to two rooms of a primary school, along with several cars. Three officers were slightly injured.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/11/01/international/i093631S93.DTL|title=SF gate News archive}}{{dead link|date=November 2022}}</ref>
** In Aulnay-sous-Bois, rioters threw [[Molotov cocktails]] at the [[town hall]] and rocks at the firehouse; police fired [[rubber bullet]]s at advancing rioters.<ref name="auto5"/>
** Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy refers to rioters as "scum"<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110100833.html|title=Article dated 11 November 2005 | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] }}{{dead link|date=November 2022}}</ref>
** [[Prime Minister of France|French Prime Minister]] [[Dominique de Villepin]] "met Tuesday with the parents of the three families, promising a full investigation of the deaths and insisting on 'the need to restore calm,' the prime minister's office said."<ref name="auto5"/>
* '''
**
** One government official claims that live rounds were fired at riot police.
** Two primary schools, a post office, and a shopping centre were damaged and a large car showroom set ablaze.
** Police vans and cars were stoned as gangs turned on police.
** Rioting had spread west-ward to the area of [[Hauts-de-Seine]] where a police station was bombarded with home-made [[Molotov
** [[Jacques Chirac]], the [[President of France]], made appeals for calm, and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin held an emergency cabinet meeting. De Villepin issued a statement saying "Let's avoid stigmatising areas", an apparent rebuke to his political rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has called the rioters "scum" (''racaille'').<ref>{{cite
** A woman on crutches in her fifties, Joëlle M., was doused with petrol in [[Sevran|Sevran-Beaudotes]] and set on fire as she exited a bus; "She was rescued by the driver (Mohammed Tadjer) and hospitalized with severe burns"<ref>{{cite
==Second week==
* '''Thursday, 3 November''' – 8th night of rioting
** Traffic was halted on the [[Réseau Express Régional|RER]] B suburban commuter line which links Paris to [[Charles de Gaulle Airport]] after unions called for a strike.
** Rioters attacked two trains overnight at the Le Blanc-Mesnil station, forced a conductor from one train and broke windows, the [[SNCF]] rail authority said. A passenger was lightly injured by broken glass.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1277178| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426211231/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1277178| url-status=dead| archive-date=26 April 2006| website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|title=International wire story}}</ref>
** For the first time the riots spread outside of Paris, spreading to [[Dijon]] with sporadic violence in [[Bouches-du-Rhône]] in the south and [[Rouen]] in the north-west of France.
** In Parliament, de Villepin pledged again to restore order as his government has come under criticism for its failure to prevent the violence.
** Around 1000 [[Firefighter|firemen]] were called to put out a blaze at a carpet factory while twenty-seven buses were set alight.
** 500 cars were torched and arson occurred in [[Aulnay-sous-Bois]], [[Neuilly-sur-Marne]], [[Le Blanc Mesnil]], and [[Yvelines]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.20minutes.fr/journal/recherche/pop_article.php?ida=63803&mot=Chirac|title=Welcome to nginx|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070312201323/http://www.20minutes.fr/journal/recherche/pop_article.php?ida=63803&mot=Chirac|archive-date=12 March 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4405620.stm | title=French riots spread beyond Paris | date=4 November 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1104/p06s02-woeu.html | title=Deep roots of Paris riots | journal=Christian Science Monitor | date=4 November 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.OBS4153.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051107013247/http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.OBS4153.html | archive-date=7 November 2005 | work=L'Obs|title=L'Obs - Actualités du jour en direct}}</ref> Additionally, 7 were burned in Paris,<ref>{{cite web |title=L'Ob article| url=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051104.FAP3932.html?1733 | work=L'Obs| date=13 July 2023 }}{{dead link|date=November 2022}}</ref> and others had their windows broken out near the metro station La Chapelle. Nationally, 593 vehicles were torched Thursday.
* '''Friday night, 4 November''' – 9th night of rioting
** Violence continued in Val d'Oise, Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis. Arson and attacks on vehicles occurred in [[Aubervilliers]], [[Sarcelles]], [[Montmagny, Val-d'Oise|Montmagny]] and [[Persan]].
** French police claim incidents Thursday night have diminished in intensity compared to the previous night, with only fifty vehicles set on fire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991127232419/http://www.ndtv.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 November 1999|title=NDTV|website=NDTV.com}}</ref> Prefect Jean-François Cordet said in a statement that "contrary to the previous nights, there were fewer direct clashes with the forces of order."
** "Traore's brother, Siyakah Traore, called for protesters to 'calm down and stop ransacking everything.'".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174533,00.html | title=Rewind 2005: The Top 10 Stories | website=[[Fox News]] | date=25 March 2015 }}</ref>
** Violence spread to [[Lille]] and [[Toulouse]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fr.news.yahoo.com/04112005/5/nouveaux-incidents-dans-les-banlieues-autour-de-paris.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051106060054/http://fr.news.yahoo.com/04112005/5/nouveaux-incidents-dans-les-banlieues-autour-de-paris.html | archive-date=6 November 2005 | title=Nouveaux incidents dans les banlieues autour de Paris |work=Yahoo! Actualités }}</ref>
* '''Saturday, 5 November'''
** Day
*** Police reported the discovery of a bomb making factory for producing gasoline bombs inside of a derelict building in
*** Several thousand residents of [[Aulnay-sous-Bois]] joined a march in protest against the riots, initiated by the commune's mayor, Gérard Gaudron.
*** At noon, Prime Minister [[Dominique de Villepin]] met with Nicolas Sarkozy and other cabinet members.
*** [[Yves Bot]], public prosecutor of the city of Paris, on Europe 1 radio described the events as organized violence
** Night
*** Around France, 897 vehicles were torched and 170 people arrested.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |
*** An incendiary device was tossed at the wall of a synagogue [[Pierrefitte-sur-Seine]].<ref
*** Firefighters were attacked while rescuing a sick person in [[Meaux]].
*** Violence continued both within and outside Paris. In [[Grigny, Essonne|Grigny]], two schools were set on fire.
*** Another school was set on fire in [[Vigneux-sur-Seine|Vigneux]].
*** A [[nursery school]] was burned in Achères, west of Paris, outraging residents who demanded that the [[French Army]] be deployed or that a citizens [[militia]] be formed
*** In [[Torcy, Seine-et-Marne|Torcy]], close to
*** Additional attacks
*** In the Normandy city of [[
* '''Sunday 6 November'''
** Morning
*** Cars torched in central Paris for the first time, in the historic [[
*** The total number of vehicles torched during the night is estimated at 1,295, the highest number so far. 193 people were arrested. An extra 2,300 police were drafted.<ref>{{cite
*** In broad daylight on Sunday, a
*** A [[Korean people|Korean]] female journalist from [[Korean Broadcasting System|KBS]] TV was knocked unconscious with repeated punches and kicks to her face and head in [[Aubervilliers]]<ref>{{cite
*** As of Sunday morning, tenth night, the total number of people arrested since
** Night
*** Rioters fired [[buckshot|large-caliber]] ammunition from pistols and hunting rifles in the southern Parisian suburb of [[Grigny, Essonne|Grigny]], injuring 34 policemen, three of them seriously.<ref>{{cite
*** For the first time, [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[
*** 1408 vehicles have been torched during the night (982 vehicles were burned outside Paris), and 395 people were arrested.<ref>{{cite
***In the first incident outside France, five cars were torched in [[Saint-Gilles, Belgium|Saint-Gillis]], [[Brussels]],
***German police suspects that the torching of five vehicles in Berlin may potentially be connected to the rioting in Paris suburbs.<ref>{{cite
* '''Monday 7 November'''
** Day
*** A 61-year-old man, [[Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec]], a former [[Renault]] employee, died in the hospital because of the injuries sustained after being beaten when he went to check on a garbage can fire in the suburb of [[Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis|Stains]]. He succumbed to his injuries, becoming the first death caused by the riots.
*** Rioter [[Moussa Diallo]] is quoted as saying: "This is just the beginning. It's not going to end until there are two policemen dead."<ref>{{cite
*** Eric Raoult, mayor of [[Raincy]], which is one of the cities hit by the riots, has imposed a [[curfew]] on people younger than 15
*** [[France 3]] has decided to stop revealing the toll of the riots and the number of cars torched in order to not inflame the situation.<ref>{{cite
*** Three French blog participants have been arrested for provoking the violence.<ref>{{cite
*** Jewish religious leaders in France report they have been advised by the government not to discuss their fears publicly in order to avoid further anti-Semitic attacks.
*** The [[Union of French Islamic Organizations]] (UOIF) issued a [[fatwa]] condemning the violence<ref>{{cite
*** De Villepin on the [[TF1]] television channel announced the deployment of 18,000 police, supported by a 1,500 strong reserve.<ref>{{cite
** Night
*** Police said that violence in Seine-Saint-Denis was still simmering, but the situation was calmer than in the previous nights, with three times fewer calls to the fire services, but violence continued in the province.<ref>{{cite
*** In [[Toulouse]], some 50 rioters stopped and torched a bus and ordered the driver to get out, hurling
*** Two schools were torched in [[Lille|Lille Sud]] and in [[Bruay-sur-Escaut]] near the city of [[Valenciennes]]. A gymnasium was burned in [[Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis|Villepinte]].
*** Additional violence and vandalism in eastern France in [[Alsace]], [[Lorraine (région)|Lorraine]] and [[Franche-Comté]]. Violence in [[Toulouse]], [[Strasbourg]], [[Blois]], [[Moselle]], and [[Doubs]].
*** 1173 vehicles have been burned.<ref>{{cite
*** Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced that, starting on Wednesday, "wherever it is necessary, prefects will be able to impose a curfew". No army intervention is being planned.<ref>{{cite
* '''Tuesday
** Day
***The Belgian TV-station [[VTM (TV channel)|VTM]] reports that a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a
***President [[Jacques Chirac]] declares a [[state of emergency]] following an emergency session of his cabinet, and the re-activation of a
** Night
***Protestant church in [[Meulan]] attacked.<ref>{{cite
***Youths threw firebombs at police and set cars ablaze in suburb of [[Toulouse]]. Dozens of youths set fire to at least 10 cars and threw objects at police.<ref>{{cite
*** As of midnight [[Central European Time]], the [[France|French Republic]] is placed under a [[State of Emergency]]. The cities of [[Orléans]], [[Blois]] and [[Amiens]] imposed curfews on minors below 16 years of age.
*** Senior interior ministry official Claude Gueant said police had seen "a very significant drop" in the intensity of the unrest. The number of cars set alight across France overnight Tuesday to Wednesday fell to 617, hundreds fewer than the night before. Some 280 people were arrested and disturbances broke out in 116 areas, half the number affected the preceding night.
*** Public transport in [[
*** In [[Bordeaux]], a Molotov cocktail hit a gas-powered bus.
* '''Wednesday
** Day
***
*** [[Daniel Feurtet]], the [[communist]] mayor of the riot-hit [[Le Blanc-Mesnil]] district, threatened to quit. "If the prefect decides to impose a curfew in one of our areas, I'll hand in my resignation right away
*** Interior minister [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] has ordered the expulsion of all foreigners convicted of taking part in the riots that have swept France for 13 nights. He told parliament 120 foreigners had been found guilty of involvement and would be deported without delay.
** Night
*** Authorities imposed curfews in
*** 482 vehicles were burned and 203 arrests were made during the night.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-708638@51-704172,0.html | title=Le Monde - Toute l'actualité en continu| website=[[Le Monde]] | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130107125050/http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-708638@51-704172,0.html | archive-date=7 January 2013 }}</ref>
***The Paris area appeared quiet, according to authorities, and a spokesman for Seine-et-Marne said "the trouble is subsiding".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09333801.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124124126/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09333801.htm| url-status=dead| archive-date=24 November 2005|title=Alert net article}}</ref>
*** Several towns in the suburbs of Paris and elsewhere are organizing themselves to restore order.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103AP_France_Neighborhood_Watch_FR1.html|title=France Neighborhood Watch}}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* '''Thursday 10 November'''
** Day
*** French President [[Jacques Chirac]] has acknowledged his country has "undeniable problems" in poor city areas and must respond effectively. "Whatever our origins we are all the children of the Republic and we can all expect the same rights", he said.<ref name="auto7">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4425210.stm | title=Chirac troubled by city violence | date=10 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
*** Meanwhile, eight police officers have been suspended after a young man was beaten up in a Paris suburb. Police said two of the eight were suspected of illegally hitting the man arrested in [[La Courneuve]], one of the riot hotspots. The other six officers are also being investigated as suspected witnesses to the incident on 7 November. "A medical statement shows the man has superficial bruises on his forehead and his feet", a police statement said.<ref name="auto7"/>
*** Paris police chief Pierre Mutz banned the transport and purchase of petrol (gasoline) in cans, saying he fears violence is being planned in the capital itself.<ref name="auto6"/>
***Sarkozy said local authorities were instructed to deport foreigners convicted of involvement in the riots.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10354580| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222224806/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10354580| url-status=dead| archive-date=22 February 2013|title=The New Zealand Herald }}</ref>
** Night – 15th night of rioting
*** Police said 463 vehicles were set on fire across France, a slight fall from the previous night, but the number of vehicles torched in the areas around Paris rose from 84 to 111. 201 arrests were made during the night.<ref name="auto4"/>
*** In Alpes-Maritimes, seven towns lifted curfews, including Cannes.
*** Justice Minister Pascal Clément said that in Paris, only two people had been arrested for violating curfews.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/11/11/chirac_speaks_of_inequalities_leading_to_riots/ | title=Chirac speaks of inequalities leading to riots|work=Boston Globe|date=11 November 2005}}</ref>
* '''Friday 11 November'''
** Day
*** All public meetings likely to provoke disturbances are to be banned in the French capital, police have announced. The ban will begin at 0900 GMT on Saturday and end at 0700 GMT on Sunday. The police statement said the measure followed calls for "violent acts" in Paris on 12 November contained in recent e-mail and text messages.<ref name="auto9">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4429356.stm | title=Paris rallies banned in riot fear | date=11 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
*** Residents of suburban riot hotspots staged a sit-in near the [[Eiffel Tower]] on Friday, calling for an end to the car burnings and vandalism.<ref name="auto9"/>
** Night – 16th night of rioting
*** In [[Savigny-Le-Temple]], a primary school was attacked and its [[Day care|creche]] destroyed.
*** In [[Amiens]], about 30 vandals attacked a transformer, causing a blackout in the northern part of the town
*** In [[Rambouillet]], two shops were destroyed.
*** In [[Carpentras]], two fire bombs were thrown at a mosque.<ref name="auto6"/> Remarkably, president [[Jacques Chirac]] immediately condemned the attack, while having remained silent for days when the riots first began.
*** The worst suburban unrest on Friday night was reported in [[Lyon]] and the city of [[Toulouse]] in the south-west. More than 500 cars were set on fire, two police officers were wounded and 206 people were detained across the country.<ref name="auto11">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4430540.stm | title=Riot erupts in French city centre | date=13 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
* '''Saturday 12 November'''
** Day – Paris places a ban on all public meetings, to help stop rioting.
*** The ban started at 0900 GMT and will remain in force until Sunday morning.
*** Police in the city of Lyon have fired tear gas to break up groups of youths who hurled stones and bins hours before a curfew was due to begin.<ref name="auto11"/>
** Night – 17th night of rioting
*** A nursery school was torched in the southern town of [[Carpentras]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4430540.stm | title=Riot erupts in French city centre | date=13 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
*** Ten people were arrested in [[Lyon]] after 50 youths damaged vehicles. Regional authorities for the first time declared a curfew for minors in Lyon.<ref name="auto8">{{cite web | url=http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=851374| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527200920/http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=851374| url-status=dead| archive-date=27 May 2006|title=Channel Four Television Corporation}}</ref> "It was the first rioting in a major city's downtown core in more than two weeks of violence."<ref name="auto10">{{cite web | url=http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20051113-074822-3273r.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051113135032/http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051113-074822-3273r.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=13 November 2005 | title=Washington Post| website=[[The Washington Times]] }}</ref>
*** A school was burned down in Carpentras.<ref name="auto8"/>
*** "More than 370 cars were burned, down from 502 the previous night. A further 212 people were arrested", the BBC said. "Clashes were also reported in Toulouse, Dunkirk, Amiens and Grenoble."<ref name="auto10"/>
* '''Sunday 13 November'''
** Day
***France has been offered 50m euros ($59m; £34m) by the [[European Union]] to help recover from more than two weeks of rioting in poor city suburbs. European Commission head [[José Manuel Durão Barroso]] said up to 1bn euros could be made available eventually for job creation and to help social cohesion. French insurers estimate that damage claims alone will reach 200m euros.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4434026.stm | title=EU offers France aid after riots | date=14 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
**Night – 18th night of rioting
***Some 284 vehicles were burned on Sunday night, down from a peak of over 1,000 a week earlier. 115 people were detained overnight.<ref name="auto2">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4437206.stm | title=Chirac in new pledge to end riots | date=15 November 200 | work = BBC News5 }}</ref>
* '''Monday 14 November'''
** Day
***The French government issues a proposal to extend the State of Emergency for three months.
***French President [[Jacques Chirac]] has pledged to create opportunities for young people in an effort to prevent any resurgence of urban violence. In his first major speech since rioting began, M. Chirac spoke of a "crisis of meaning, a crisis of identity". He condemned the "poison" of racism, and announced measures for the training of 50,000 youths in 2007. Speaking at the [[Elysee Palace]] in front of the flags of France and the [[European Union|EU]], M. Chirac said the wave of violence had highlighted a "deep malaise" within French society. "We are all aware of [[discrimination]]", the president said, calling for equal opportunities for the young and rejecting suggestions of a US-style quota system.<ref name="auto2"/>
***Many residents in poor neighborhoods hit by crime, high unemployment and a lack of prospects do not expect the government's plans to bear much fruit. "Nothing will change", Henri-Anne Dzerahovic, 61, said in the bleak Clichy-Sous-Bois suburb in the northeast of Paris. "I'm moving out of here. I've had enough. Anywhere you go, you're afraid of being attacked. Any time. Not just in the past two weeks. It's an awful climate", said Dzerahovic.<ref name="auto4"/>
**Night – 19th night of rioting
***215 vehicles (60 of which in the Île-de-France) were set on fire and 71 people were detained overnight.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-706693,36-710208@51-707207,0.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121218065244/http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-706693,36-710208@51-707207,0.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 December 2012 | title= Le Monde| website=[[Le Monde]] }}</ref>
* '''Tuesday 15 November'''
**Day
***The lower house of France's parliament has approved plans to extend special powers until 21 February 2006 to try to bring a wave of urban rioting under control. The emergency laws also need the approval of the Senate, which votes on the issue on Wednesday. Interior Minister [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] had told deputies France was facing one of its "sharpest and most complex urban crises", which required "firmness". He said most of those arrested in the riots were already known delinquents.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4437800.stm | title=France MPS back emergency powers | date=15 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
**Night – 20th night of rioting
***Violence subsided further, with 163 torched vehicles (27 of which in the Île-de-France) and 50 arrests. Only five communes had more than five cases of arson, among them Arras, Brest and Vitry-le-François with 11 each. In [[Romans-sur-Isère]], a church was burnt in an arson attack. One policeman was injured in Pont-Evêque (Isère) as he was hit by a bottle filled with acid. Since 27 October, a total of 126 policemen were injured.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-710597@51-704172,0.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051127050316/http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-710597@51-704172,0.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=27 November 2005 | title= Le Monde| website=[[Le Monde]] }}</ref>
* '''Wednesday 16 November'''
**Day
***The French parliament has approved a three-month extension of emergency laws aimed at curbing riots by urban youths. The Senate on Wednesday passed the extension – a day after a similar vote in the lower house. The laws allow local authorities to impose curfews, conduct house-to-house searches and ban public gatherings. The lower house passed them by a 346–148 majority, and the Senate by 202–125.<ref name="auto">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4441246.stm | title=France extends laws to curb riots | date=16 November 2005 }}</ref>
***Senior officials from President Jacques Chirac's centre-right party have suggested that [[polygamy]] is one factor in the riots, arguing children of polygamous families have less of a father figure and are more likely to live in overcrowded conditions. "Polygamy... prevents people being educated as they should be in an organised society. Tens of people cannot live in a single flat", Bernard Accoyer, leader of the Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) in the [[National Assembly of France|National Assembly]] lower house of parliament, told French radio. Polygamy is illegal in France but until 1993, it was possible for immigrants to bring more than one wife from their home country to join them.<ref name="auto"/> (Note: [[Islam]] allows a man to have up to four wives at a time.)
==Fourth week==
* '''Thursday 17 November'''
**Day
***French police say levels of violence in France have returned to "normal", following three weeks of unrest by urban youths across the country. Police said 98 vehicles were torched on Wednesday night, marking a "return to a normal situation everywhere in France". The police service said the figure of 98 cars burnt was in line with the nightly average before the trouble began on 27 October. Authorities in the Rhone region, which covers Lyon and nearby south-eastern towns, lifted a curfew on minors after just eight cars were destroyed overnight.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4445428.stm | title=French violence 'back to normal' | date=17 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
***French Muslim leaders denounced on Thursday efforts to blame Muslims and Islam for recent riots in the country's rundown suburbs and said they saw worrying signs of growing prejudice against their faith here. Many young rioters may have been from Muslim backgrounds, but their violent outburst was a protest against unemployment, poor housing and other bias they faced because of their foreign origins, they told journalists. "They didn't act like that because they're Muslims, but because of the misery they're living in", said Kamel Kabtane, rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon in eastern France. "There weren't just Mohammads and Alis in those groups (of rioters) – there were Tonys and Daniels too", said Dalil Boubakeur, the Paris Grand Mosque rector who is also head of France's official Muslim Council (CFCM).<ref name="auto4"/>
* '''Friday 18 November'''
**Day
***French Equal Opportunities Minister [[Azouz Begag]] has urged the government to overturn a ban on collecting data based on ethnicity or religion. Government bodies and private companies are barred from gathering such data – which is deemed potentially divisive. But M. Begag told ''[[Le Figaro]]'' newspaper it was important to assess the presence of minorities in various professions. Job discrimination was a key complaint voiced by many youths who rioted in immigrant suburbs in recent weeks. "We need to see France's true colours", M. Begag said. "To do that, we need to measure the proportion of immigrant children among the police, magistrates, in the civil service as well as in the private sector."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4451038.stm | title=France 'needs ethnic statistics' | date=18 November 2005 | work =[[BBC News]] }}</ref>
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