I’m surprised that this story has received so little attention in the States:
More than 200 police officers have raided a tough housing estate near Paris where two policemen were ambushed and badly beaten up last week.
At least nine people were held on the Tarterets estate in Corbeil-Essonnes, just south of Paris, as youths hurled bottles at police, officials said.
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to catch “one by one” those responsible for the ambush.
Last year, Corbeil-Essonnes and other Paris suburbs were engulfed in rioting.
Monday’s raids were prompted by the assault on two riot policemen who were on patrol in Corbeil-Essonnes last Wednesday.
Based on the stories I’ve read in the Francophone press this is understating the injuries the police officers who were attacked sustained.
Two hundred police officers sounds like a major operation to me. It was only a little over a year ago that the Paris suburbs saw substantial rioting and hundreds of burned cars. A year may have seen few changes and the two police officers apparently entered a zone in which they were not welcome.
