Photo Gallery Paris Is Burning
A seventh consecutive night of street fighting in Paris. In the north-eastern suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois immigrant youths besieged a police station and torched some 40 vehicles.
Anti-riot policemen patrol next to a burning car. The violence started last Thursday after two teenage boys, who thought they were being persued by the police, died by electrocution while hiding in a electricity sub-station. So far, the riots have resulted in 27 arrests and several prison sentences.
Firemen in front of a burnt out carpet shop in Bondy in the north of Paris.
Street fighting has spread to nine areas of Paris. In Aulnay-sous-Bois youths overturn and torch vehicles.
Market traders set up stall between two burnt out cars in Clichy-sous-Bois. On Tuesdy, French President Jacques Chirac called for calm -- but to no avail.
In Aulnay-sous-Bois youths drag dumpsters onto burning cars. Police have so far failed to bring the rioting under control.
Inhabitants of Clichy-sous-Bois carry on with daily life, ignoring the burnt out vehicles that now litter the Paris suburbs.
The day after: In the northeastern Paris suburb Sevran, two youths stand on burnt out cars. The street fighting has mainly been in poor suburbs in the north and east of Paris.
The death of two youths started the violence but French Interior Ministor Nicolas Sarkozy heightened the tension by label rioting immigrants as louts and scum. A burnt out truck marks further rioting in the suburb of Sevran.
