Meanwhile, it seems that leading French media outlets may be censoring their own coverage of the riots in an attempt to ward off a rightward shift in French politics.
And there are reports that France may receive as much as a billion Euros from the European Union for job development and social cohesion.
Both, in my view, are bad ideas. The rioting has been caused in part by the willful ignorance of the French themselves, and France needs to take responsibility and deal with its own social problems without relying on the rest of Europe for help. Click on the links for more.