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By Tassilo Hummel WOIPPY, France (Reuters) - After a bout of street unrest just over a decade ago, the Woippy suburb of the northeastern city of Metz ...
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By Tassilo Hummel WOIPPY, France (Reuters) - After a bout of street unrest just over a decade ago, the Woippy suburb of the northeastern city of Metz ...
After a bout of street unrest just over a decade ago, the Woippy suburb of the northeastern city of Metz secured state funding to improve housing, refurbish streets and even create a riverside beach and educational farm complete with beehives and a llama. But such spending, part of France's longstanding policy of urban renewal projects, did not discourage youths from looting its shops and setting fire to a local school in riots last week after the police shooting of a teenager of North African descent at a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. "To see a fire in this institution created t...