The Local
;Riots broke out in Amiens, northern France, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving 16 police officers injured and several million euros of damage.
About 100 youths set on fire a primary school, sports centre and police station in the north of the city. Some local inhabitants were injured in car-jacking incidents.
Some 150 police officers, including special forces of anti-riot police and 45 officers from Paris, were deployed to calm the tension.
Reports say there was a two-hour standoff at a roundabout at midnight. Police had rocks and fireworks thrown at them, and deployed tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
The standoff came to a head at about 2am when the mob launched a stolen car, reportedly full of petrol, towards the police.
What a shame they werent all in that car they launched
UK Daily Mail has lots of images on this story. Comments are revealing as well.. .heh!
It is taking a couple years longer then I thought it would but this is turning into a civil war.