600 Police On Lozells Streets

Blimey - it's like the good old days when there was a friendly riot van on every corner ...

Meanwhile in Gay Paree ...

A police trade union called for help from the army to support police officers.

"There's a civil war underway in Clichy-Sous-Bois at the moment," Michel Thooris, an official of police trade union Action Police CFTC, said .

"We can no longer withstand this situation on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoretical training for street fighting," he said.