In a year the grip does not appear to be be much loose

A year ago, the death by electrocution, two young people from Clichy-sous-Bois triggered twenty-one nights of riots in the major French towns. More than 9,000 vehicles burned, degraded school buildings and in the end, more than 3,000 people detained. Beyond violence, sociologists believed detect three messages: the discontent against the police, the feeling of abandonment to the school and the rejection of discrimination in hiring. What was the response of the Government Twelve months later, Dominique de Villepin seems to have used all its cartridges in the direction of the suburbs: there are no less "one hundred steps", whose efficiency will be judged in the light of the evolution of the tensions between young people and the forces of order. However, these days, the police draw the alarm, denouncing "APENS" and "aggression" which they consider themselves victims.

40 of youth unemployment

Aware of the extreme fragility of the situation violent incidents took place yesterday afternoon at Grigny, in the Essonne , Ministers, local elected officials and representatives of the associations are on the lookout. Some expect a new wave of revolt, while the economic, social and urban context has not fundamentally changed in "difficult" neighbourhoods, and media and the politicians contribute to fanning the fire by marking this "anniversary".

Since a few days, the Government took the lead by multiplying the shifts in the cities. Distribution of roles: the listening and the defence of the balance sheet at the Prime Minister, the proposals-shocks of repressive nature to the Minister of the Interior. Without insisting on its most unacceptable measures (contract first hiring, deleted, and 14 years old, cagey start learning), Dominique de Villepin has chosen as a symbol of its action the National Agency for social cohesion, responsible for implementing operations aimed at the priority of the policy of the city residents and 500 million euros for 2007. At the same time, Nicolas Sarkozy directs the spotlight on a few strong stops, announces want to criminalize violence against the police and said that juvenile offenders should be considered "major" with justice.

Six months of the presidential election of 2007, the Minister of the Interior ostensibly made the choice of the "visible", as he knows that the effects of the overall decline of unemployment are not noticeable in the suburbs before long months in good number of "neighbourhoods", the youth unemployment rate is 40. The risk is even that inequalities appear with greater force. It is also the problem of Dominique de Villepin and Jean-Louis Borloo: If the Prime Minister repeated that the commitments "made", the Minister of employment stressed, him, the slow pace of reforms. Convinced that "it is there that plays the common destiny of our country," he indicated last Thursday at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, "it will take two or three years for the effects to be sensitive." "And must put the means". "There generations of city policy", summarizes Catherine Vautrin, Minister for social cohesion, which CITES Vaulx-en-Velin, where "awareness back to 1976. Conversely, "in les Mureaux, to the Tarterêts, in Corbeil-Essonnes, or at La Courneuve, it is still in the beginning, is therefore not a chance if it goes less well.

If, for left-wing parties, Nicolas Sarkozy is the responsibility of the tensions, "playing the kindling" PS of Clichy-sous-Bois, Claude Dilain Mayor in is not on that charge, although also condemned it "this criminal and delinquent vision." The problem is, according to him, more complex: "the people did not see change look of disregard for society against them." The worst part is that they know that if there is fire, it will return to against them. "In a year, the grip does not appear to be be much loose.