Rioters have shrugged off emergency laws, looting and burning two super-stores, setting fire to a newspaper office and paralysing France's second-largest city's subway system with a firebomb.
President Jacques Chirac announced extraordinary security measures, which began on Wednesday and are valid for a 12-day state of emergency, clearing the way for curfews after nearly two weeks of rioting in neglected and impoverished neighbourhoods with largely Muslim communities. Officials were forced to shut down the southern city of Lyon's subway system after a bomb exploded in a station, a regional government spokesman said, adding no one was hurt.
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