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Paris: Rioters burnt dozens of cars and set fire to a nursery school in the poor northern suburbs of Paris in further unrest sparked by the arrest of a young black man by officers who have been charged with beating and raping him.
Police arrested 17 people in the disturbances that have affected several different areas in the same suburbs where riots by disgruntled youths of immigrant origin began in 2005 and spread across the country.
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On Tuesday evening President Francois Hollande visited the young man, who is recovering in hospital after his allegedly violent arrest last Thursday in Aulnay-sous-Bois, and stayed for half an hour at his bedside.
The 22-year-old victim, identified only as Theo, called on people to remain calm and not to take to the streets, according to the president's aides.
But that call went unheeded, and the suburbs experienced their fifth consecutive night of unrest following his arrest, when a police officer allegedly sodomised him with a baton.
One officer was charged on Sunday with aggravated rape and three others were charged with aggravated assault.
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The unrest began on Friday night and by Wednesday had spread to several suburbs surrounding Aulnay-sous-Bois, which itself was relatively calm on Tuesday.
As well as damaging the nursery school and a car salesroom, youths also used a shopping trolley full of petrol bombs in their attacks. "For the moment we're talking of very violent but isolated standoffs," said Luc Poignant from the SGP police union.
French riot police officers run past a burning truck in Paris suburb, Aulnay-sous-Bois during the 2005 riots. Photo: AP
Officers say that they are often targeted there by gangs and drug dealers. Many youths in those suburbs say they are often humiliated by police and are constantly stopped and asked for their identity papers.