Riots In France

French President Jacques Chirac poses before addressing the nation from the Elysee Palace, on French channel "France 2" during the evening news Monday, Nov. 14, 2005. In the televised address, he said that the rioting reflects a "profound malaise" in France.

A demonstration is held by concerned Parisian locals against the recent violent riots, at the monument of the peace in the 'Champs de Mars' on Nov. 11, 2005 in Paris, France. Violent protests have spread to other cities across France with thousands of cars set on fire and property destroyed by disaffected immigrants.

A French firefighter tries to extinguish a car set on fire by rioters in Venissieux, a district of Les Minguettes, near the central French city of Lyon, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 as residents look on from a window of their housing complex.

A tourist looks at a bus which was set ablaze overnight on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2005, in the southeastern city of Nice. Violence in urban areas around France fell for the third straight night after emergency powers allowed local officials to impose night curfews on youths behind two weeks of unrest over racism, poverty and unemployment.

Cars burn in front of a building in the Le Mirail district of Toulouse, southwestern France, Sunday night, Nov. 6, 2005. French President Jacques Chirac promised arrest, trials and punishment Sunday for those sowing "violence or fear" across France.

French President Jacques Chirac gestures as he addresses the nation as Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, left, looks on at the Elysee Palace in Paris Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005. Chirac said restoring security and public order was an "absolute priority" after urban violence intensified and spread across France. Arsonists struck from the Mediterranean to the German border and into central Paris for the first time.

The wreckage of a car, used to break through the glass door of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant, lies amid the rubble of the restaurant in Corbeil-Essonnes, south of Paris, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005.

Municipal employees clear the debris of bus shelter in Evreux, western France, Sunday Nov. 6, 2005, following a night of rioting. Spreading urban unrest, with arson attacks on vehicles, nursery schools and other targets in France from the Mediterranean to the German border, for the first time reached central Paris, where police said Sunday that 28 cars were burned overnight.

A passerby walks past the broken window of a pharmacy in Evreux, western France, Sunday Nov. 6, 2005, following a night of rioting. Spreading urban unrest for the first time reached central Paris, where police said Sunday that 28 cars were burned overnight.

A firefighter extinguishes a car in "Les Musicians" housing complex of Les Mureaux, northwest of Paris, Saturday night, Nov. 5, 2005, on the 10th day of unrest. Vehicles and buildings were torched by youths in largely immigrant areas who began rampaging after two of their peers were electrocuted last week at a power substation while hiding from police whom they feared were chasing them.

A youth walks past charred remains of torched vehicles filling a covered parking lot in Suresnes, west of Paris, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005, after a wave of mass disorder swept through the country. Bands of youths torched more than 750 cars and burned warehouses and a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from the restive Paris suburbs to towns around France.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the Matignon Hotel in Paris Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005, after an extraordinary meeting in connection with the wave of mass disorders in the country.

Residents participate in a silent march in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb east of Paris, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005, in protest against the wave of mass disorder that is sweeping through the country. Marauding youths torched 750 cars, stoned paramedics and burned a nursery school in a ninth night of violence that spread from Paris suburbs to towns around France. T-shirt reads "Stop the Violence and the Destruction."

People wait outside in a street after being evacuated from their homes following a car fire inside their parking garage in Pierrefitte, north of Paris, early Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005, on the ninth day of unrest.

Firefighters at work in the ruins of a Chinese textiles warehouse in Le Bourget, northeast of Paris, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. Small, mobile groups of youths torched hundreds more cars near Paris on Friday. The violence and arson attacks that have shaken the capital's suburbs for a week are spreading to other French towns.

French President Jacques Chirac enters the Elysee Palace after his meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in Paris Friday, Nov.4, 2005.

Police officers investigate near the wreckage of some of the 27 city buses burned by youths in a warehouse in Trappes, west of Paris, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005.

Firefighters try to extinguish a raging fire at a warehouse in the Paris suburb Le Bourget, early Friday, Nov. 4, 2005, in the seventh consecutive night of violence on the outskirts of Paris. More than 1,000 police officers were deployed to again do battle with rampaging groups. A kindergarten, a gymnasium, government offices and hundreds of cars have been torched over the past week by youths in largely immigrant areas.

Clichy-sous-Bois residents walk past the wreckage of a burned car, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005, east of Paris. The violence, sparked initially by the electrocution deaths of two teenagers, has laid bare the despair, anger and deep-rooted criminality in France's poor suburbs, some of them ghettos where police hesitate to venture despite evidence they are fertile terrain for Islamic extremists.

French firefighters try to put out burning tires in Le Blanc-Mesnil, a suburb outside Paris, early Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005. Unrest spread across troubled suburbs around Paris for a sixth night as police clashed with angry youths. Vehicles were torched in at least nine towns, local officials said.