Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Armenian Community of France did not Suffer from Riot in Paris

November 8, 2005
Armenia Diaspora

Yerevan, November 8, PanArmenian.Net; Riot in Paris did not harm the Armenian community of France. Armenians are mainly concentrated in three Paris suburbs where there are no disorders, the situation is calm, reported RFE/RL.

Meanwhile, the French Government has approved application of a law of 1955 on emergency situation. The legislation allows local authorities introducing curfew, on which heads of municipalities, seized by mass disorders, insist. Pogroms and burning in Paris suburbs have continued for almost a fortnight already. Some French media describe the disorders in the country as a «civil war.»

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