From: "Curtis Price" <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:33:03 +0000 Subject: (Fwd) [70] RIOTS AFTER ANTI-NATIONAL FRONT RALLY INJURE 20 ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:03:32 -0500 From: NewsHound-AT-sjmercury.com (NewsHound) Subject: [70] RIOTS AFTER ANTI-NATIONAL FRONT RALLY INJURE 20 Selected by your NewsHound profile entitled "RIOTS". The selectivity score was 70 out of 100. Riots after anti-National Front rally injure 20 TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- Riot patrolmen battled protesters rallying against the far-right National Front and proposed immigration laws in clashes that left at least 20 people injured, police said today. Police fired tear gas Tuesday evening at protesters outside a National Front meeting in this southern city after some started throwing stones and bottles. More than 30 people were detained for questioning after rioters looted shops, smashed windows and vandalized cars. The protest, which began peacefully, was over the recent election of National Front mayor Catherine Megret in the nearby city of Vitrolles, and over government plans to tighten immigration laws. In Paris, 16,000 people protested the immigration bill as parliament began to debate it Tuesday night. Ten people were arrested after some threw eggs, bottles and trash at riot police. Opponents of the new law say the government is acting under pressure from the National Front, which blames social ills -- including France's record-tying 12.7 percent unemployment rate -- on immigration. --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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