5 go to jail for shooting
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July 5, 2010, Monday
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FIVE young men were sentenced yesterday to prison for shooting at dozens of police during riots in a Paris suburb in 2007 that re-exposed tensions in France's poor, isolated housing projects.
The shooting was unusual in France, where rioters usually target police with stones or Molotov cocktails, but not firearms. It was seen as signaling worsening relations between police and youths.
Riots broke out in the town of Villiers-de-Bel in November 2007 after the deaths of two teenage boys in a motorbike crash with a police car. The violence drew comparisons to more widespread riots that raged through poor suburbs nationwide for three weeks in 2005.
With rumors circling in Villiers-le-Bel that the two teens had been killed by police, youths fired on police with a shotgun, injuring several. Five men went on trial in June for the shooting, all insisting on their innocence.
The last day of the trial on Saturday extended late into the night, and the judges handed down the conviction and sentence only early yesterday morning.
The two men considered the masterminds of the shooting, Abderhamane Kamara and his half-brother Adama Kamara, both 29, were convicted of attempted murder of police officers and given sentences of 15 years and 12 years respectively.
The shooting was unusual in France, where rioters usually target police with stones or Molotov cocktails, but not firearms. It was seen as signaling worsening relations between police and youths.
Riots broke out in the town of Villiers-de-Bel in November 2007 after the deaths of two teenage boys in a motorbike crash with a police car. The violence drew comparisons to more widespread riots that raged through poor suburbs nationwide for three weeks in 2005.
With rumors circling in Villiers-le-Bel that the two teens had been killed by police, youths fired on police with a shotgun, injuring several. Five men went on trial in June for the shooting, all insisting on their innocence.
The last day of the trial on Saturday extended late into the night, and the judges handed down the conviction and sentence only early yesterday morning.
The two men considered the masterminds of the shooting, Abderhamane Kamara and his half-brother Adama Kamara, both 29, were convicted of attempted murder of police officers and given sentences of 15 years and 12 years respectively.
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