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Aggressive police making flippant remarks about teenagers’ electrocution and a minister who talked of ‘scum’ are accused of inflaming the violence. The exchange could hardly have been worse for the French police as they strive to allay their reputation as enemy of the ethnic estates.

TF1, the television channel, showed a young Arab in the outskirts of Lyons objecting politely about the insulting manner of an officer who had demanded his identity papers.

“You want me to take you to a transformer?” the officer sneers back, referring to the electricity station where two teenagers were electrocuted while fleeing an identity check. The incident sparked the riots.

“We don’t give a s*** if your estate calms down,” added the officer, using the disrespectful “tu” rather than “vous”. “In fact, the more it gets f****d up the happier we are.”

Source: Times Online.