Restive youths in France burn cars in new suburban unrest

BAGNOLET, France -- Restive youths in a Paris suburb were harassing police and torching cars and a bus in a second night of unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.

An Associated Press Television News crew saw nearly a half-dozen torched cars and a burned-out tourist bus near a housing project. Youths in the project were setting street fires and hurling objects at police.

Police had sent reinforcements into the Bagnolet suburb just east of Paris after a night of violence following the Sunday night death of an 18-year-old fleeing police on his motorcycle.

Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux had called for calm, signaling fears that unrest by angry suburban youth could worsen. Hortefeux ordered an internal police investigation into the death.