PARIS (Reuters) - Police went onto high alert in Paris on Friday as France began a holiday weekend likely to test a downward trend in two weeks of violence by youngsters angered by conditions in rundown suburbs.
The country's worst unrest in four decades has receded since President Jacques Chirac's government adopted emergency measures including curfews on Tuesday, but there was a rise in violent incidents in neighbourhoods around the capital overnight.
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