French Intifada, Day Eleven

Sun, Nov 6, 2005 at 8:07:49 pm PST

Burning cars and shops is no longer enough for the Muslim mobs rampaging through France: Riot police hurt by shots as France vows order will be restored.

PARIS (AFP) - Police were hurt by shots and baseball-bat-wielding youths as rioting raged on for its eleventh night in France despite a vow from President Jacques Chirac that public order would be restored.

Thirty riot squad officers were hit by buckshot fired at them in suburbs south of Paris, police said. Two were hospitalised with serious wounds, and were visited late Sunday by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

Elsewhere, officers were targeted by gangs roaming low-income neighbourhoods on the outskirts of major cities and setting fire to scores of vehicles and properties.