AMIENS (FRANCE): Youths fired buckshot at police in clashes in the French city of Amiens overnight on Tuesday, torching cars and a nursery school in a resurgence of urban unrest that President Francois Hollande said he would do everything to confront. Hollande dispatched his interior minister Manuel Valls to the northern city, where two nights of violence were apparently sparked by tension over spot police checks on residents.
Officials said 16 police officers were hurt in the disturbances, some struck by buckshot others hit by a hail of missiles thrown by around 100 youths who gathered in northern districts of Amiens.
One officer was in a serious condition, the city's Socialist mayor Gilles Demailly said. Speaking during a visit to southeastern France, Hollande said the state would "mobilize all its resources to combat this violence", which has shaken depressed quarters of major French cities at regular intervals.
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