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How UK could learn from France in quelling riots

(10 Aug 2011) SHOTLIST Paris, 10 August 2011 1. Alain Bauer talking to reporter in his office ++MUTE++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Bauer, criminologist: "Seems to be very similar in fact that what happened in France in 2005 was a long story, begins in 1979 that never really ended. We had local riots for a long long time for usually four days five nights or five nights four days, four days five nights. It''s a quantum of timing." 3. Front page of French newspaper about the riots in the UK 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Bauer, criminologist: "Every time you have somebody killed or the rumour of somebody killed or somebody really severely wounded and then a reaction of anger and after that which is the only things that may change shopping riots. But the initial detonator is the same." 5. Front page of French newspaper about the riots in the UK 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Bauer, criminologist: "You don''t have any tactics to adapt to what''s happening. You don''t take enough consideration of their own tactics. For example the French experience was total surprise in 2005 by the guerilla tactics of them so they had to adapt and after five or six days we changed the tactics by moving long lines of huge armour and very heavy and slow police forces to very mobile light police forces that were the same as the enemy." FILE: Le Mirail, Toulouse - 14 November 2005 7. Exterior of burnt school 8. Various interiors of burnt classroom 9. Wide shot of apartment block 10. Various of burnt out car in a car park outside the block STORYLINE: The images of violence across the United Kingdom have for some recalled those in France in 2005, when hooded and masked youths fought police in three weeks of raging overnight battles in suburban housing projects. A French top criminologist who closely monitored the 2005 riots said that the situation the UK is now facing is similar to what happened in France six years ago. Alain Bauer said the authorities had to adapt to the rioters'' "guerilla tactics" by moving from using slow armoured police units to "very mobile light police forces that were the same as the enemy". The riots began on Oct. 27, 2005 after two teenage boys - both with family roots in Africa - were electrocuted while hiding from police in a power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Local youths blamed police for the death, and took the streets in anger. "Every time you have somebody killed or the rumour of somebody killed or somebody really severely wounded and then a reaction of anger and after that which is the only things that may change shopping riots," said Bauer. The riots quickly spread, eventually engulfing depressed, isolated neighbourhoods around France. Thousands of cars were torched, stores sacked or destroyed, and police used tear gas, water cannon and rubber pellets on rioters. Many of the youths were black or Arab, children or grandchildren of immigrants from former French colonies, angry over lack of jobs, discrimination and disenfranchisement from mainstream French society. Curfews, a state of emergency, pledges by Chirac to fight discrimination and mass deployments of police eventually subdued the rioters, but tensions between police and youth in the projects continues today, with periodic eruptions of clashes between youths with Molotov cocktails and police with tear gas. French police say between 30 and 50 cars are set on fire during an average week. On the most fiery night of the 2005 riots, more than 1,400 cars went up in flames. Police across the country have made almost 1,200 arrests since the violence broke out over the weekend. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...