The “youths” are marching in Paris again: Immigrant youths march through Paris.

“In 12 months, it’s obvious that you can’t change everything,” said Claude Dilain, mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois.

“I’m worried because not only has the French society’s attitude not changed but I think it has even worsened,” he said in an interview with AP Television News. “A large part of French society disdains the suburbs.”

Dilain noted that not a single government minister attended the opening this month of a high-profile photo exhibit of life in Clichy-sous-Bois. “No one. No one. No one came,” he said.

Azouz Begag, the government minister for equal opportunities, warned against saying nothing has changed since the riots.

“Then the message will be that you can break France,” he told reporters. “If you want fire, there will be fire.”

And here’s a direct threat from a French “youth:” If Sarkozy is elected, people will be killed. (Hat tip: Eric Cartman’s Conscience.)

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Oct 25, 2006 (AFP) - A year after one of the most traumatic episodes in modern France, the conditions that touched off three weeks of suburban rioting remain firmly in place and there is widespread fear that a new outburst is only a question of time.

In the seedy “Cite des 3,000” estate in Aulnay-sous-Bois in the northeastern outskirts of Paris — not far from the starting-point of the riots — the same idle young men slouch against the walls, smoking cannabis, watching motorbikes make wheelies and eyeing passing cars for police.

Across the dual-carriageway a Renault garage that was burned out on day seven of the disturbances is still in ruins, and several families of gypsies have parked their caravans in the forecourt.

“Has anything changed? Look around you — we’re all still here. Nothing to do — no jobs, and the police still harassing us,” said Kiko, 23, who has just emerged from serving a jail sentence for fraud.

“I don’t know when, but something is bound to blow up again. You get to the point where you don’t care. It all builds up, and then you burst,” said Ahmed, 22. …

The opposition Socialist Party accuses Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy of being part of the problem — because of his poisonous reputation in the “banlieues” and his uncompromising line on law and order. Sarkozy retorts that it is left-wing welfare policies of 30 years that have led to the crisis — and that a liberalised economy combined with positive discrimination is the only way to provide jobs and hope.

In the “Cite des 3000” there is little appetite for a new flare-up of rioting to mark the October 27 anniversary — but if Sarkozy is elected that could be another matter.

“Sarko is the provocative element,” said Kiko. “And if he is elected next year I warn you: people will be killed.”