Oct. 30, 2005 at 11:43AM
Rioting erupted again Saturday night in a Paris suburb that houses many immigrants, three days after the death of two teenagers trying to escape police.
A spokesman for local government in Clichy-sur-Bois told the BBC that young men threw petrol bombs and set at least 15 cars on fire. But police said that the violence appeared to be less than on Thursday and Friday nights.
"It is like a dormant volcano. It could erupt again any time, but in general, these kind of riots don't last longer than 48 hours," a police officer told Al-Jazeera, the Arab-language news network.
Earlier Saturday, about 300 people participated in a peaceful march that observed a moment of silence and left flowers near the place where the two teens died.
The deaths of Ziad and Banou are under investigation. Police officials say that the teens, both believed to be of North African origin, were electrocuted when they tried to hide in an electrical substation.
A prosecutor told Al-Jazeera that the boys mistakenly thought that officers investigating a break-in were after them and fled with no police in pursuit.
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