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Amiens riots thrust 'left-wing Sarkozy' into spotlight - FRANCE - FRANCE 24

Rioting earlier this week in France's northern city of Amiens has thrust the country's Interior Minister Manuel Valls into the spotlight, as he attempts to shake off claims that the Socialist government is "lax" on security.
...Stock arguments on how the left is soft on crime, however, may be difficult to pin to Valls, whose political style doesn't necessarily fit into a tidy, well-defined box. Although a longtime member of the Socialist Party, some of Valls' more conservative views have earned him the nickname "the left-wing Sarkozy".
...Since Valls took on the job of interior minister three months ago, he has shown a resolute desire to use policy as a means to shift away from the image that the left doesn't have what it takes to get tough on crime - an image the majority of French people apparently believe. According to a study by French polling centre Ifop published in Le Figaro, only 35 percent of French people believe that Hollande's government is capable of "efficiently fighting security threats".

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by DoDo on Fri Aug 17th, 2012 at 02:27:37 PM EST
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Amiens rioters receive suspended sentences - FRANCE - FRANCE 24

AFP - Two men involved in a riot in the French city of Amiens this week were given suspended prison sentences following a fast-track trial on Friday.
The two men, aged 20 and 25, were convicted of having set fire to a number of waste bins during unrest on Monday evening that caused six million euros worth of damage to public buildings.

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by DoDo on Fri Aug 17th, 2012 at 02:27:46 PM EST
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Roms : Martine Aubry en colère contre Manuel Valls		Roma: Martine Aubry angry against Manuel Valls
Martine Aubry ne décolère pas. La première secrétaire du PS a appris par la presse le démantèlement d'un camp de Roms situé dans la métropole lilloise, qu'elle dirige. Visiblement, le préfet avait oublié de l'en avertir, en tout cas personnellement. Conséquences : les familles expulsées se sont éparpillées dans toute la métropole et à Lille même, s'ajoutant aux 3000 Roms de la zone.		Martine Aubry is still fuming. The first secretary of the PS learned from the press of the dismantling of a Roma camp located in Lille, the city she's been heading as mayor. Obviously, the prefect [representing the government] had forgotten to notify her, at least personally. Consequences: the evicted families are scattered throughout the city and even in Lille downtown, in addition to the 3000 Roma living in the area.
Aubry a abrégé ses vacances pour regagner, jeudi, sa mairie. La première secrétaire du PS est d'autant plus remontée qu'elle estime que sa ville est « absolument exemplaire » par les efforts qu'elle a déjà accomplis pour accueillir les gens du voyage. Trois villages d'insertion ont été créés et trois autres sont en cours d'installation. Des terrains, aussi, ont été aménagés pour plus de confort et d'hygiène.		Aubry has cut her vacation short to return to the town hall on Thursday. The first secretary of the PS is even more enraged because she considers that her city has been "absolutely exemplary" by the efforts it has made to accommodate "traveler people". Three "insertion villages" were created and three others are being built. Camping grounds, too, have been equipped for more comfort and hygiene.
Des membres du gouvernement critiquent la gestion du dossier rom		Government officials criticize the management of the Roma dossier
C'est que les Roms, Martine Aubry connaît. Pour avoir qualifié de « dérive antirépublicaine » le discours de Grenoble à l'été 2010 de Nicolas Sarkozy, elle avait vu affluer vers sa métropole des milliers de Roms obligeamment poussés par... le précédent gouvernement. « Je suis d'autant plus désagréablement surprise de la manière dont ça s'est passé cette fois », peste la maire de Lille, qui a prévu de donner la semaine prochaine une conférence de presse pour mettre les choses au clair. « Je peux comprendre le mécontentement de Martine car elle a créé chez elle un vrai laboratoire pour accueillir les Roms dont on pourrait s'inspirer », juge Fodé Sylla, l'ancien président de SOS Racisme.		As a matter pf fact, Martine Aubry knows the Roma well. For having called Nicolas Sarkozy's Grenoble speech, in the summer of 2010, "anti-republican drift", she saw thousands of Roma flocking to her city, obligingly driven there by... the previous government. "I am all the more unpleasantly surprised how it happened this time," the mayor of Lille ranted; she is due to give a press conference next week to set the record straight. "I can understand the frustration of Martine as she created in her city a true laboratory to accommodate the Roma that could be an inspiration elsewhere," ruled Fode Sylla, former president of SOS Racism.