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Here's the truth:

The chaos was triggered when Traore Bouna, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin, were electrocuted in a gruesome accident in Clichy-sous-Bois — one of many poor communities heavily populated by immigrants; the fatal accident occurred after they reportedly scaled a wall of an electrical relay station and fell against a transformer. A third teenager was hospitalized with severe burns. They apparently thought they were being chased. Local residents claim the teenagers were fleeing police officers who were investigating a robbery in the area at the time.

The urban unrest began when a group of angry youths attacked emergency medical technicians responding to the scene of the electrocutions, lionizing the dead teenagers as martyrs to police heavy-handedness, to racial discrimination and to decades of official neglect of the country's underclass of African and Arab immigrants.

Source: [Click, Dick]


I know most of you cannot read the French press, but please don't jump to conclusions. There are plenty of English language press that are covering the real facts.

This is most certainly not a land-grab by French Muslims, a scheme to jump start Armageddon by American Fundies or a takeover attempt by the LGM.

EDIT: LGM = Little Green Men

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FYI, [Click, Dick] for english speakers and [Click, Dick] pour les francophones are both decent alternatives to American news outlets.