[Telegraph-UK] David Rennie - Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day. As the Interior Ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the estates populated by unemployed youths of North African origin. The union said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armored cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones.
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