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Riot hit france extends emergency powers { November 15 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1506567.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1506567.htm Last Update: Tuesday, November 15, 2005. 1:25am (AEDT) Riot-hit France moves to extend emergency powers The French Cabinet has agreed to ask Parliament for a three-month extension to emergency powers to combat the worst urban violence in 40 years. The unrest in poor suburbs of Paris and major provincial cities is now in its 18th straight night. In the latest violence, police say youths destroyed 284 vehicles in petrol bomb attacks. Disturbances erupted with the deaths on October 27 of two youths apparently fleeing police. However, they grew into a wider protest by youths of African and North African origin at racism, poor job prospects and their sense of exclusion from French society. The violence peaked a week ago giving riot-weary residents hope of calmer days ahead. "I think it's over. I think the young people have let out their anger, and I think the Government got the message," Bernard Moutei, 40, said. President Jacques Chirac, who has been criticised for his low profile during the crisis, is to explain his decision to roll over the emergency powers in a television broadcast. The Government is expected to introduce the measure to Parliament on Tuesday local time and should secure a comfortable majority. "This is a protective and precautionary measure," government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope quoted Mr Chirac as telling the Cabinet. "It is a measure necessary to give law enforcement all the means they need to bring a permanent return to calm ... naturally this is a strictly temporary measure which will only apply where it is strictly necessary and with the full agreement of local elected officials." On November 8 the Government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin revived a 50-year-old colonial-era law to grant prefects, the state's top local officials, broad powers to impose curfews and other restrictions on designated areas. The decree named 38 towns, cities and urban areas around France, including the capital, Paris. However, few prefects have made use of the new powers. - Reuters

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