Interior Minister increases security after riots

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1. Riot police standing by roadside
2. Riot police walking along road
3. Riot police with helmets and shields crossing road
4. Cars burning on roadside
5. Riot police moving along road
6. Various of car burning and police standing by
7. Protestor with sign walking down street
8. Police along road
9. Police extinguish burning car
10. Police lead arrested man away

STORYLINE:

France's Interior Minister on Monday promised stepped-up security in rough neighbourhoods after four nights of rioting in a Paris suburb.

After a visit to the scene of violent clashes in the northeastern Paris suburb of Clichy-Sous-Bois, Nicolas Sarkozy said riot police would ensure order and intelligence agents would search out troublemakers.

Rioting was triggered by the deaths on Thursday of two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, accidentally electrocuted as they hid from police in a power substation.

Large numbers of police were deployed to try and avoid further clashes. Even so, a number of bins and cars were set alight.

Police made several arrests in an effort to stem further violence.

The clashes between angry youths and police shone the spotlight back on Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful for elections in 2007 who used the attention to repeat his tough law-and-order message.

The unrest also highlighted the security problems in France's big city suburbs, still unresolved despite repeated government pledges over the years to tackle unemployment, delinquency, drug trafficking and other crimes.

Troubled suburbs, often the home to immigrants with modest incomes, have proved fertile terrain for Muslim prayer leaders with a radical message for disenchanted youth.

On Monday the families of the teenagers accidentally electrocuted refused a meeting with the interior minister, whose tough anti-crime tactics have made him a divisive figure.

The brother of one of the victims, Bouna Traore called Sarkozy "very, very incompetent" and asked instead to see Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

In the fourth consecutive night of unrest on Sunday, six police officers were injured, 11 people were detained and cars and garbage bins were set on fire again.

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