The Christmas Lights in Paris are Burning Cars

Those glowing lights in Paris this Christmas season are probably burning cars as the "youths" of Paris stage another uprising:

Rampaging youths rioted overnight in Paris' suburbs, hurling Molotov cocktails and setting fire to dozens of cars. At least 77 officers were injured and officers were fired at, a senior police union official said Tuesday.

The violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. Police were shot at and are facing "genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," Ribeiro said.

Some officers were hit by shotgun pellets, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said. She said there were six serious injuries, "people who notably were struck in the face and close to the eyes."

The riots were triggered by the deaths of two teens killed in a crash with a police patrol car on Sunday in Villiers-le-Bel, a town of public housing blocks home to a mix of Arab, black and white residents in Paris' northern suburbs.

The fact that the "youths", who are likely from the same Muslim subculture that caused rioting months ago, are using guns in this riot is a troubing escalation of the violence. Basically, it's becoming a war in the streets of Paris.

By the way, the "youths" who were killed in the collision with a police car were attempting to flee the cops on a stolen moped.