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2005 civil unrest in France - Assessment of rioting
Assessments of the extent of violence and damage that occurred during the riots are under way. Figures may be incomplete or inaccurate. Some French media sources, including France 3, have decided not to report the extent of damage so as to avoid any risk of inflaming the situation. [37] After the first few days of rioting media organisations agreed to publish only the total number of torched cars, without giving locations, to avoid encouraging any type of contest between rioters. The French Federation of Insurance Companies (FFSA), has given a preliminary estimate for the total damage up to November 14, 2005 as being up to €200 million for property and casualty losses, inclusive of €20 million for torched cars.
Dominique de Villepin, in an interview to the US TV channel CNN, said:
I am not sure you can call them riots. It's very different from the situation you have known in 1992 in L.A. for example. You had at that time 54 people that died, and you had 2,000 people wounded. In France during the 2 weeks period of unrest, nobody died in France. So, I think you can't compare this social unrest with any kind of riots.
2005 civil unrest in France - Summary statistics
Further information: Timeline of the 2005 French civil unrest
- Started: 17:20 on Thursday, 27 October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois.
- Towns affected: 274 (on 7 November [38])
- Property damage: More than 8,970 vehicles (Not including buildings).
- Monetary damage: Estimated at €200 Million.
- Arrests: 2,888
- Deaths: 1 (Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec)
- Police and firefighters injured: 126
Source: French Interior Ministry, BBC News unless stated
2005 civil unrest in France - Figures and tables
Note: In the table and charts, events reported as occurring during a night and the following morning are listed as occurring on the day of the morning. The timeline article does the opposite.
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2005 civil unrest in France - List of areas affected
- Paris (3rd, 17th arrondissements)
- Seine-Saint-Denis: Aubervilliers, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Bagnolet, Bobigny, Bondy, Clichy-sous-Bois, Drancy, Épinay-sur-Seine, Gagny, La Courneuve, Le Blanc-Mesnil, Le Bourget, Montfermeil, Montreuil, Neuilly Sur Marne Noisy-le-Grand, Noisy-le-Sec, Pantin, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Romainville, Rosny-sous-Bois, Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen, Sevran, Stains, Tremblay-en-France, Villepinte, Villetaneuse
- Yvelines: Achères, Les Mureaux, Sartrouville, Trappes
- Seine-et-Marne: Meaux, Torcy, Melun area
- Val-de-Marne: Champigny, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Ormesson-sur-Marne, Villejuif, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
- Essonne: Athis-Mons, Evry, Corbeil-Essonnes, Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Brétigny-sur-Orge, Grigny, Fleury-Mérogis
- Hauts-de-Seine: Asnières, Clamart, Colombes, Gennevilliers, Sèvres, Suresnes
- Val-d'Oise: Argenteuil, Villiers-le-Bel
- Ain: Bourg-en-Bresse, Meximieux
- Aisne: Soissons
- Alpes-Maritimes: Drap, Nice, Saint-André, Cannes
- Bas-Rhin: Schiltigheim, Strasbourg
- Bouches-du-Rhône: Marseille
- Côte d'Or: Dijon
- Doubs: Montbéliard
- Eure: Évreux [75]
- Finistère: Brest, Quimper
- Gironde: Bègles, Blanquefort, Bordeaux, Lormont
- Guadeloupe: Pointe-à-Pitre[76]
On November 16 police and firemen in the Caribbean overseas département (département d'outre-mer or DOM) of Guadeloupe came under gunfire after hooded youths burned two cars and erected street barriers in the town of Pointe-a-Pitre, police said Wednesday. No one was injured as firemen fled the scene once the shooting broke out Tuesday night, when police returned fire against what they characterized as a trap set by snipers. Police believe the attack is linked to rioting in metropolitan France [77].
- Haute-Garonne: Toulouse
- Haute-Marne: Saint-Dizier
- Hautes-Pyrénées: Tarbes
- Haute-Savoie: Sallanches, Seynod, Cluse, Ville-la-Grand, Annemasse, Rumilly
- Haut-Rhin: Colmar, Illzach, Mulhouse
- Hérault: Béziers, Frontignan, Ganges, Lunel, Montpellier, Saint-André-de-Sangonis, Sète
- Ille-et-Vilaine: Saint-Malo, Rennes
- Indre-et-Loire: Tours
- Isère: Echirolles, Grenoble
- Loir-et-Cher: Blois
- Loire : Roanne, Saint-Étienne
- Loire-Atlantique: Nantes, Saint-Herblain
- Loiret: Montargis, Orléans
- Mayenne: Laval
- Meurthe-et-Moselle: Nancy
- Moselle: Guénange, Metz, Rombas, Thionville
- Nord: Dunkerque, Hem, Loos, Marcq-en-Baroeul, Lille, Mons-en-Baroeul, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Wattrelos
- Oise: Beauvais, Méru, Nogent-sur-Oise, Creil
- Pas-de-Calais: Lens, Calais, Arras, Le Portel, Hénin-Beaumont
- Pyrénées-Orientales: Canet-en-Roussillon, Perpignan
- Puy-de-Dôme: Clermont-Ferrand
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Pau
- Rhône: Lyon, Rillieux-la-Pape, Vénissieux
- Sarthe: Le Mans
- Saône-et-Loire: Montceau-les-Mines, Chalon-sur-Saône
- Seine Maritime: Le Havre, Rouen
- Somme: Amiens
- Tarn-et-Garonne: Montauban, La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple
- Territoire de Belfort: Belfort
- Var: Draguignan, Fréjus, La Seyne-sur-Mer, Toulon
- Vaucluse: Apt, Avignon, Bédoin, Carpentras, Maubec, Pertuis, Valréas
- Vosges: Épinal
2005 civil unrest in France - Related events in other countries
On Sunday, November 6, the first possibly related incident outside France took place. Five cars were torched in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), Belgium. Belgian police considered it an isolated case. [78] However, on Monday another five cars were torched in the region, as more were overturned and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the police. [79] In Liège, Sint-Niklaas, Bruges, and even the rural community of Dilbeek, there were isolated events of car burning and Molotov-throwing. [80] On November 8, there were twenty more acts of car burning, Molotov-throwing and other arson. New areas that were hit include Antwerp, Charleroi, Genk, Ghent, La Louvière and Lokeren. [81] On November 9 the police encountered conclusive evidence that the arson was inspired by the situation in France: on a torched car, the remark "Fuck you Sarkozy, Antwerp - Paris" was found. [82] In the evening, more than thirty new cases of torched cars and other arson were reported. Some twenty people in total were arrested. [83] On November 10, three people were arrested after some twenty five new crimes. Meanwhile, there were reports of radical weblogs, on popular online youth communities such as Skyblog [84], calling for a massive riot in Brussels on November 12. [85] On November 11, there were another thirty incidents and a couple of arrests. [86] On November 12, the expected coordinated riots became reality, and police arrested (and released) sixty out of one hundred rioters. However, some thirty cars were burned and one injured suspect was arrested. [87] Among the new places affected were Vilvoorde and the university city of Louvain-La-Neuve. On November 13, a truck set on fire caused a blaze that destroyed two buildings, including a school. [88] In the evening, there were some fifteen more cases of arson. [89] Since November 14, there have been some thirty more incidents. [90] However, media coverage in Belgium is subsiding.
A number of arsons occurred in Viby near Aarhus in Denmark in late October and early November. [91] Store-front windows were also smashed. After a community meeting, complete with social workers and police, relative calm was achieved over the weekend. However, a substantial police force had to be deployed on Wednesday, 9 November to restore order after store-smashing and attempted torchings recurred. [92][93] [94][95]
A number of arson attacks and other acts of vandalism, possibly inspired by the riots in France, have been committed in Germany. Six cars were set ablaze in Bremen and Berlin on the night between 6 November and 7 November. In the Moabit neighborhood of Berlin, five cars were set on fire. In Bremen, a caravan (camper) burned. Also in Cologne four cars have been torched. Police have not ruled out the possibility that these were copycat attacks related to those in France. [96] [97]
On 11 November, a group of around seventy youths attacked the French Institute building in Athens. [98]
About fifty anarchists firebombed two car dealerships in central Athens early Sunday, 13 November, destroying more than thirty automobiles. The Citroen and Mercedes showrooms were severely damaged. [99]
Two French businesses were attacked by some unidentified arsonists on Monday night, 14 November in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. A Renault car dealership was firebombed, destroying eight cars. A Carrefour supermarket was similarly attacked, suffering serious damage. [100]
During a 17 November demonstration in Patras commemorating the 1973 Greek student uprising, anarchists chanted about the unrest in France and tossed paint-bombs at a French institute. Chants included, "In Greece, France, Algeria, the enemy is in the banks and the ministries." [101] In Athens, eggs and paint were thrown at the French embassy, as demonstrators voiced their support for the rioters in France. [102]
On the night of 18 November gas bottles were exploded at an Chevrolet auto dealership, in Peristeri, a suburb of Athens, destroying two cars. [103]
Police made two arrests Sunday morning, 13 November, in Waalwijk in the southern province of North Brabant, after four cars were burned during Saturday night disturbances.
More than a dozen cars were firebombed and several others damaged in incidents in the Dutch port of Rotterdam on the night of Saturday, 12 November.[104].
On 6 November, twenty trash cans and six cars were burned in the city of Seville. [105] On 7 November, nineteen trash cans, five cars and a motorbike were torched in the same city. Firefighters attempting to extinguish the fire were injured by stones thrown by attackers. The subdelegate of the Spanish government in Seville considered it to be an isolated case. [106] [107] On 8 November, another car and fourteen trash cans were burned in many districts of Seville. [108] [109] The city council has imposed an information blackout over local police and firefighters, so they can't report new incidents to the press. It appears that these acts of vandalism are coordinated, because many fires start at the same time in different places of Seville. Also, four cars were torched in the city of Hospitalet de Llobregat. [110] According to the National Police, on 9 November also were some cars burned in Seville. [111] On Thursday, 10 November, a unknown number of cars have been burned in Seville. [112] Three cars were burned in Hospitalet de Llobregat and Barcelona. Also have been found some wall paintings in Barcelona with the message the fire is extending and Paris is burning. [113] On 11 November, a car, two motorbikes and thirteen trashcans were burned in Seville. Six people were arrested. [114].
On Sunday night, 13 November, two cars were burned in the Swiss town of Martigny. [115].
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