November 07, 2005

banality of revenge

"This is just the beginning," said Moussa Diallo, 22, an unemployed French-African in Clichy-sous-Bois, the Parisian suburb where the violence began on October 27. "It's not going to end until there are two policemen dead." He was referring to the two teenage boys, one of Mauritanian origin, the other Tunisian, whose accidental deaths while fleeing a police identity check touched off the violence.

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