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Paris 'almost back to normal'
15/11/2005 12:53 - (SA)
Paris - The number of car-torchings dropped again overnight, with youths setting fire to 215 vehicles - compared to 284 the day before - France's interior ministry said on Monday.
The figures showed a "return to a nearly normal situation", the ministry said in a statement that revised a tally released earlier in the day. Urban unrest continued for the 19th night last night.
Most of last night's unrest occurred in the provinces outside Paris, where 155 cars were burned, compared to 216 the previous night.
In the Paris region, 60 cars were burned compared to 68 the night before.
Youths - mostly poor immigrants - have been torching cars and buildings for nearly three weeks. The unrest, sparked by the accidental electrocution deaths of two teenagers as they hid from police in a power substation in the northeast Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, has abated this past week.
About 8 810 vehicles have been torched nationwide since the unrest started on October 27.
- AP
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