November 9, 2005
French youths turn to Web, cellphones to plan riots
More on France's youth rioting and how cell phones are playing a role to coordinate the violence and to evade the police. [via
"Text messages and mobile phones ... help small groups of rioters," said criminologist Alain Bauer. "They can connect easily. It's not only a way to avoid the police, it's a way to organize the fires."
The rioters have learned from anti-globalisation protesters, some of whom have used cellphones to coordinate riots at meetings of the Group of Eight industrial nations and the World Trade Organization in recent years, Bauer said.
"I think they learned from what they saw on television. I think anti-globalisation movements and rioters have the same way to organize -- or to disorganise the police," he said. "It's old guerrilla tactics with modern technology."
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