[New York Times] Elaine Sciolino - While the scale of the unrest of the past few days among the offspring of Arab and African immigrants in France does not yet compare with the three-week convulsion in hundreds of suburbs and towns in 2005, a chilling new factor makes it more menacing. The one-time rock throwers and car burners have taken up hunting shotguns and turned them on the police. More than 100 officers have been wounded, several seriously. Thirty were hit with buckshot and pellets from shotguns, said Patrice Ribeiro, a police spokesman.
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