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France Deports First Youth Tied to Riots 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

PARIS - The French government deported a Malian involved in autumn rioting on Thursday — the first expulsion stemming from the weeks of violence that swept across France's troubled suburbs — and was preparing to send home another six foreigners.

The deportation of the man made good on promises issued by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy during three weeks of car burnings, riots and other violence that began Oct. 27.

"I was widely criticized for saying ... that I would apply the law by expelling those (foreigners) who participated in the riots," Sarkozy said on LCI television. "Well, a first one took an airplane to Mali today."

Sarkozy said six other foreigners convicted of crimes were about to be deported, explaining the delay as a result of long legal procedures "because we are in a state of law."

At the height of the crisis, Sarkozy said he had asked local authorities to immediately deport 120 foreigners arrested during the unrest, a plan that raised concerns among human rights groups.

Most of the other cases were dropped because the suspects were minors or faced the prospect of double punishment for their roles in the violence, Sarkozy's spokesman, Franck Louvrier, told The Associated Press.

At least 3,200 suspects were arrested and more than 100 police officers were injured in the violence — the worst civil unrest in France since the student-worker riots of 1968.
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They should have deported all of them! Freaking woosies.

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