The increasingly unreliable Expatica is finally reporting about the "disturbances" taking place near Paris----two weeks after everyone else was reporting it.

One year later, French 'banlieues' still smoulder

AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Oct 25, 2006 (AFP) - A year after one of the most traumatic episodes in modern France, the conditions that touched off three weeks of suburban rioting remain firmly in place and there is widespread fear that a new outburst is only a question of time.

It continues with old news if you want to read it, but everything that is French tries to turn a blind eye, which is par for the course. When my aunt was a student at the Sarbonne the Chernobyl disaster occured. A professor in one of her classes pulled a roll up map down from above the blackboard. Upon it he colored most of Europe, excluding France. "Isn't this a wonderful country? Radiation is covering almost all of Europe except for France." Talk about PC press, the French invented it.