President Jacques Chirac plans to lift the state of emergency imposed in the autumn to halt a frenzy of rioting and car burning, his office said Monday. The three weeks of unrest, which erupted in late October, was concentrated in poor suburbs where many North and West African immigrants live with their French-born children. In the rioting, rampaging youths set fire to some 9,000 vehicles around the country in France’s worst civil unrest since student and worker protests in 1968. Full Story
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