Protests for Gaza: After violent clashes in Sarcelles Barbès

Juliette MONT ESSE and Jessica LOPEZ | AFP -

The clashes began Sunday in terms of the approved Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise), after the violence that devastated the neighborhood of Barbès in Paris, reviving the controversy over whether the pro-Palestinian protest against these events.

Police shoot bombs, burned cars, looted some shops: Sarcelles, the few miles north of Paris for its multiculturalism suburb known, was Sunday scenario violence in Gaza news.

The first meeting of pro-Palestinian activists injury was banned immediately after the province. In the afternoon, protesters were attacking the pharmacy, the fire and several shops and a police helicopter circling in the sky caught destroyed.

Kosher grocery store, the "Cannes-Torcy" was covered by a hand grenade attack in September 2012 by a group called terrorist cell was disassembled shortly after it burned. Nearby shops were damaged.

Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse the rioters to cartridges.

Dozens of activists with batons, especially those of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a young radical activists belonging armed stood guard in front of a synagogue in the city, protected by a cordon of police.

Thirteen people were arrested, said a police source said. Calma appeared back in the afternoon.

A day earlier, north of Paris, thousands of protesters defied a government ban on his show became a struggle for hours by the police.

Seventeen police officers and gendarmes during violence in youth groups have been injured and 19 people remain in custody Thursday.

Barbès common point between violence and protests are banned by the government after the overflow from Sarcelles fear and at the same time, many parades, allowed provinces was carried out without incident.

- "Big Pataques" -

In the morning, before the problems of Sarcelles, Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended the decision to ban the parade Barbès "It is unacceptable behavior (...) to justify even more choices that were made," - he said.

In line with his interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, decided that it was "the irresponsibility of those who face" Prohibition in Paris "had caused the overflow," the violence of July 13, about two synagogues in Paris remembered.

In Elysee, Hollande said: "No, to be inserted too far by arguments distracted."

The government "is a provocation" and not "been able to confirm? Participation status" Yves Jégo criticized presidential candidate, Udi. Critics also comes from the left. "The ban came to feed a form of extremism," said PS chose Razzy Hammadi, sees a "mistake" by the government.

Questioned by AFP, a police officer defended the senior police strategy in Paris. "One of the goals is to prevent clashes between the communities was and was not" "If you have, or pro-Palestinian Israelis struck by what we said, we do would you? " Current police officers.

Event organizers have a new rally on Saturday 26 July, called the government "a great Pataques" Barbès is to criticize, that is "knowingly" accused.

Another demonstration in Paris planned on Wednesday evening, the initiative of the "National Union of just and lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis," which includes a variety of associations, political parties and trade unions.

Killed some 100 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, so it is the bloodiest since the beginning of the Israeli offensive day.