France Paying for Ethnic Isolation

Fascinating that this is still going on. I would have expected that the Paris riots would have calmed down by this time, but now they've found a facility where they're making Molotov cocktails.

Police also found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a rundown building in Evry, a southern Paris suburb that contained 150 explosives, more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, Jean-Marie Huet, a senior Justice Ministry official, said Sunday.

For the second night in a row, a helicopter equipped with spotlights and video cameras to track bands of marauding youths combed the Paris suburbs from the air and small teams of police were deployed to chase down rioters speeding from one attack to another in cars and on motorbikes.

You'd think that they'd call out the military at this point to regain control.

From analysis of the events, it does look like the isolation of various ethnic classes has finally reached its critical mass.

The violence _ originally concentrated in northeastern suburbs of Paris with large immigrant populations _ is forcing France to confront anger long-simmering in the neighborhoods, where many Arab and African Muslim immigrants live on society's margins, struggling with unemployment, poor housing, racial discrimination, crime and a lack of opportunity.

Unrest spread Saturday night across France, extending west to the rolling fields of Normandy and south to Nice and Cannes on the Mediterranean coast.

Such a shame. Makes you wonder what the response will be. Probably the addition of draconian laws like have been added in other EU counties.