Demonstrators protested near Republic Square at a peaceful protest earlier today. Clashes broke out as some demonstrators left the square, throwing projectiles at police who responded with tear gas.
The massacre has sparked ugly clashes between Kurdish protesters calling for better protection for their community and riot police who deployed tear gas to quell the unrest.
Islamist attacks such as those that took place in Paris this last autumn evidence a new kind of perpetrator. In place of individual terror organisations, networks appear to have emerged that sermonise on the cultural rift and provoke radical acts. By Gilles Kepel
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Joined by local union members, hundreds of anxious Rouen residents marched through the town just days after the major blaze swept through the Lubrizol chemical factory on Thursday. Some were holding banners and placards, others vented ire at the way the authorities tackled the aftermath of the massive fire.
People in Rouen allege that the government is hiding essential information from the local community. I’m here to know the truth, to know which products we are breathing, to know why they didn’t close the schools before knowing all the results,
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