Year later, violence resumes in Paris

PARIS, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Youths torched two buses in Paris Wednesday, nearly a year after the city was rocked by three weeks of rioting in immigrant communities.

In the northwestern Nanterre region of Paris, police said the bus was attacked by a gang of youths armed with a flammable liquid, forcing 10 people to scramble to safety, the BBC said.

In the eastern Bagnolet part of the city, police said one youth held a gun to a bus driver's head as others sprinkled flammable liquid and ignited it.

No injuries were reported in either incident.

Also Wednesday, nearly 1,000 African youths marched on the National Assembly with complaints of youth unemployment, racial discrimination and social alienation, the BBC said.

Friday will mark the first anniversary of riots that shook Paris and other French cities based on similar complaints, and a security services report leaked to a French newspaper this week said the conditions that sparked last year's violence still existed.