Gangs of "youths" went berserk in a Paris train station today, rioting and looting stores. A number of police officers were injured in the mêlée. At least 10 people have been arrested.
Officials said about 100 people were involved in the mêlée at Gare du Nord, one of Paris' most important transport hubs. Officers and police dogs fired tear gas and charged at groups of marauding youths, some of them wearing hoods and swinging metal bars.
The youths responded by throwing trash cans and other objects at the officers. A group of youths smashed the windows of a sporting goods store and looted boxes of shoes. Others attacked automatic drink dispensers and set fire to an information booth.
In one of the more disingenuous statements ever made by the AP in, they say the riot "did not appear directly related to France's presidential election." Now that's a "duh", isn't it? Later in the story, one person says that this is just the same rioting that has been happening since at least 2005; it has never really finished, just kept simmering quietly with occasional flare-ups.
Damn those “yutes” they just will not act in a civilized way, what are the prissy French to do?