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Per AP, the rioting is taking place:
...in the poor suburbs, where police hesitate to venture and which have proved fertile terrain for Islamic extremists.
Having gone on for so long, it appears to be more than a brief anomaly:
PARIS (AP) -- French President Jacques Chirac, intervening after six nights of rioting in housing projects outside Paris, called Wednesday for calm and said authorities will use a firm hand to curtail what may become a "dangerous situation."
Note that Chirac says, "may become" a dangerous situation. In other words, six nights of riots in a place where the police "hesitate to venture", isn't yet the kind of dangerous situation Chirac is concerned that this could lead to. This is no doubt correct. It could become a revolt by the Muslims against the non-Muslims of France.
It's already extremely dangerous; it could serve as a practice run for such a revolt.
