Fancy That

I wouldn't have imagined I'd ever say this, but - words of wisdom from a social worker:

"There's only so much social prevention you can do, then you have to repress," said Marie-Jeanne Sacré...

This after the sixth straight night of riots in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.

For a place whose name translates as Clichy under Wood, evoking images of a leafy hamlet nestling beneath a verdant hillside, it's ironic that today it is described as:

...a grim suburb of high-rises some 15 miles outside Paris.

-- Nick

UPDATE: Make that seven straight nights, now with guns in use. But Reuters still doesn't want to admit the truth:

Youths rampaged in nine poor suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. (Emphasis added)

Useful excuse.

-- Nick