This despite 25,000 police mobilized for the anticipated violence and an ongoing state of emergency. As usual the mainstream press studiously avoids the term "Muslim." Here's a highly contorted description of the "no go" Muslim neighborhoods:
impoverished suburban housing projects that are home to many immigrants from North and West Africa and their French-born children
The rioters are called "rowdy revelers" despite an arson attack on a school and this telling detail:
firefighters were pelted with stones when they responded to an anonymous phone alert
See
this absolute must-see post for overwhelming evidence that France is experiencing an intifada.