Melilla: Youths riot over unemployment

Melilla: Youths riot over unemployment


Via The Reader:


A large group of young people has caused severe disturbances in the Spanish African city of Melilla for five hours this morning, in neighborhoods inhabited mostly by Muslims, because they were not selected for employment plans activated since December to give work to 1,300 young people in Melilla.

Youth burned cars and containers and formed barricades, forcing security forces to use riot gear. An agent of the National Police was injured by the impact of a stone.

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