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New York Times by Craig S. Smith | May. 5, 2007 (News Analysis)

Many people blame Mr. Sarkozy for the 2005 violence, citing his tough talk and policies during four years as interior minister. Soon after getting the job in 2002, he got rid of beat police officers in troubled neighborhoods, chastising patrolmen in Toulouse for organizing soccer games with local youths. "You are not social workers," Mr. Sarkozy said....He inflamed passions further a few months later by telling people in another suburb that he would rid ... Full Story »

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 by Xyz Abcde - Oct. 1, 2008

By the low standards of the New York Times, it's rather fair, but there are still regrettable biases - for example, consider this line from the story, about the riots in Fall 2005: "an unprecedented wave of urban unrest that was largely a response to Mr. Sarkozy and his tough tactics" The author of the story presents precisely no evidence that the urban unrest was in any way a response to Mr. Sarkozy, let alone "largely". The story does not even consider alternative accounts of the riots. One has to wonder why the writer was so sure of that account of the riots.

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